voices.washingtonpost.com - 1/8/2009
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By Ben Pershing For a man who got elected on a message of hope, Barack Obama sure can be gloomy sometimes. His prediction yesterday of a budget deficit approacting $1 trillion this year and similar red ink "for years to come" likely won't inspire any more millions to crowd onto the Mall on ...
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Some days are like that.
Wonder if it’s like that with Democrats? Does Obama feel a deep and sinking dread when he hears Nancy Pelosi’s name?
Is that why he seems so gloomy?
Does the President Elect believe Harry Reid’s claim that he is his own man and won’t be Obama’s yes man?
And while we are on the subject of the little undertaker of the senate, how many days will it take before Harry Reid tears down that wall and allows the deserving Mr. Burris to take his ...
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