Word: pork
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...teachers' unions. We can tax fossil fuels so that solar and wind become more economical and commit seriously to nuclear power. We can impose sensible regulatory mechanisms and enthusiastically promote free markets and free trade. We can grow the armed forces to fight all necessary wars but also forgo pork-barrel weapons systems...
...then he was off. He would be persistent, he said, about passing a budget that addressed his concerns about energy, health care and education. He would be persistent about finding a way to solve the credit crisis, persistent about finding a way to take on lobbyists and pork spending, and persistent about finding new ways of working with Iran. "We are going to stay with it as long as I'm in office," he promised the American people, reminding them yet again that he has only been in office just over 60 days and is wrestling with problems he "inherited...
...everybody must begin to account for his or her behavior. Wall Street executives cannot get fat on paper profits from powder-keg transactions. Government regulators cannot take long lunches to toast the invisible hand. Investors cannot expect new bubbles to bailout their busts. Congress cannot send home boondoggle pork projects while whining about government spending. And the President of the United States shall no longer have the liberty to dodge the big issues. He will have to lead by example and make the hard choices. (See who's who in Obama's White House...
...McCain, Meghan • hilarious sentence-"My father Twitters every day about all the pork, and then just getting it on my Twitter account freaks me out"-is uttered by • on-air punditry career of is stillborn...
...Team Obama isn't there yet. Even for a great communicator, confidence requires an investment in credibility - and Obama has been a little risky with his portfolio. He said no lobbyists would be working in his White House - except the ones he really, really needed - and that no pork would fatten his budgets once he got past the $410 billion omnibus spending bill with its 8,570 earmarks. By promising higher standards for hiring, tighter controls on spending and greater transparency in execution, Obama set himself up to let people down. Consider Orszag's March 10 trip to Capitol Hill...