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Obama Plans Fiscal Responsibility Summit for February
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... Tells the WashPost Thursday he'll bring together a variety of voices to help solve long-term economic issues with a focus on entitlements. "We need to send a signal that we are serious." Plans to invite Senate Budget Chair Conrad, ranking minority member Gregg, conservative Democratic Blue Dog coalition, host of outside groups.       ...

Obama's recovery: 'No crystal ball'
The Swamp — by Mark Silva President-elect Barack Obama plans a "fiscal responsibility summit" in February to focus on long-term economic problems and the cost of federal entitlements. He said so in a meeting wih Washington Post reporters and editors today. "We need to send a signal that we are serious," Obama said, according to the report by the Post's Chris Cillizza. Obama says difficult choices are looming - especially with Social Security and Medicare. "We've kicked this can down the road and now ...

Remainders: Confirmation
Ben Smith's Blog — Federal employees, get used to this portrait, the official one. Obama plans a fiscal responsibility summit for February. The pres-elect's grandmother is bringing him Kenyan care packages stuffed with Oval Office decor, but no spear. Spencer Ackerman also wonders whether the phrase "war on terror" has gone out of style. Cohn's new TNR blog says health care reform is still a first-year priority for Obama. Ambinder gives a rundown of the PR and admin people hired to push the health care issue. ...

Oh, good
Corrente — ... Obama's going to hold a "fiscal responsibility summit". I'll wait for the transcript, but Cilizza's story makes it look like a thumb in the eye for the progressive caucus. ...

Allow Me To Translate This For You
Riehl World View — President-elect Obama plans to hold a "fiscal responsibility summit" with folks from the Hill. Translation: They need to craft a strategy and a message that allows them to minimize any fall-out from eventual tax and business cost increases without significantly reducing government's size, reach, power or hand-outs in any meaningful way. President-elect Barack Obama will convene a "fiscal responsibility summit" in February designed to bring together a variety of voices on solving the long term problems with the economy and with a ...

Worth a Try
The Moderate Voice — We, the fiscally concerned, will be waiting and watching.

Obama's "Mandate" To Slash Medicare, Medicaid & Social Security
Open Left - Front Page — Did you know that Obama has a mandate to slash Medicare and Medicaid?  Probably not, I'd wager.  But it seems that Obama believes he has such a mandate, according to an item at the Washington Posts' website ( ...

Robert Kuttner: Fiscal Follies
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... President-Elect Obama is planning to convene a "fiscal responsibility summit" some time in February, the Washington Post has reported. Obama floated the idea at a conversation last Wednesday with Post editors, specifically flagging Social Security and Medicare. ...

Who's Psyched For That Fiscal Responsibility Summit?
TPM Election Central — ... President Obama recently announced that he would hold a fiscal responsibility summit at the end of this month, with a particular focus on the long-term funding shortage that faces Social Security and Medicare. ...

Obama to Hold ‘Fiscal Responsibility Summit’… So Who’s Gonna Teach HIM?
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Just days before he took the oath of office, Obama told reporters that he wanted to clean up the budget process and make sure government didn’t spend wildly while he helmed the ship of state. “We need to send a signal that we are serious,” said Obama of his “fiscal responsibility summit.” In that same interview he claimed he intended to “stop the bleeding” of money wasted by Congress. ...

Obama to Hold ‘Fiscal Responsibility Summit’… So Who’s Gonna Teach HIM?
Stop The ACLU — ... , most likely at the White House. But first we have the stimulus bill that Obama most likely plans to sign on February 17. That in mind, I ask the question: what does Barack Obama know of “fiscal responsibility”? Just days before he took the oath of office, Obama told reporters that he wanted to clean up the budget process and make sure government didn’t spend wildly while he helmed the ship of state. “We need to send a signal that we are serious,” said Obama of his “fiscal responsibility summit.” In that same interview he claimed he intended to “stop the bleeding” of money ...

Mr. Cooper, He Mad
Firedoglake — ... That's pretty amusing. If Cooper and Obama see "eye to eye on the issues," they seem to have had a schism over Obama's wish to have the stimulus bill on his desk by President's day, which left Cooper describing the rush as "an abomonation."  And when Chris Cillizza first reported that the fiscal responsibility summit, he said: ...