McCain was reminded that he now supports the Bush tax cuts when he once opposed them.
Now he argues that tax cuts delivered the recovery and must be made permanent (they are due to expire by the end of 2010).
Seven years ago, he rode into town as a "compassionate conservative, " promising tax cuts and rebates Now he'll spend at least part of his last year as president pushing for more of the same.
Under those circumstances can the President go ahead with tax increases and now with spending cuts that he's planning?
If he cuts less than this he will lose some weight, but eventually his intake will match the maintenance level for what he now weighs, and without further cuts his weight will stabilise.
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And somewhere along the line, the straight talk express lost some wheels and now he is in favor of extending Bush tax cuts that went to some of the wealthiest Americans who don't need them and we're not even asking for them.
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Mr Cox said he was now recovering, but had struggled to eat due to cuts on the inside of his mouth.
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"Those below about 15, 000 to 20, 000 copies a day are now weekly because of the reductions in cuts and distributions, " he said.
The package of spending cuts and tax reforms that he is striving, right now, to push through parliament is a good one.
And in the absence of a decision on the part of the Speaker of the House and others to put middle-class families ahead of whatever political imperatives he might have right now, we're going to have these cuts in place.
Now, he proved it in budget negotiations with the Republicans when he offered them right off the bat a trillion dollars in budget cuts over the next decade, and he said, now, can we make a deal more or less like the Simpson-Bowles deal?
He says it would be better to ease sharply now, even if some cuts have to be reversed later.
Governments "should give tax cuts in bad years--not ten years from now, " he declares, obliquely criticizing George W. Bush's new tax bill.
For 2012, he cuts his profit forecast to 25 cents from 40 cents, and now sits well below the Street at 56 cents.
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Nor has he turned into the Tory right who are also crying out for tax cuts now which they claim will pay for themselves.
What the President made clear again today and has said for quite some time is that he would sign, right now, the bill that passed the Senate that extends tax cuts for 98 percent of us -- 98 percent of the American people.
The traditional Washington establishment approach to balancing the budget is to negotiate an agreement on a package of spending cuts and tax increases, which is what President Obama thinks he is doing now.
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He told French radio that a more "responsible attitude" to austerity budget cuts was now in place.
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Now, he adds, the challenge will be finding the money, in the midst of robust calls for cuts in defense spending, to mass-produce them.
Mr Glocer told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he believed the company had now gained "momentum" but that it was continuing with its planned job cuts.
But if he does choose the pragmatic route, and cuts down on the fumbling and indecision, Mr Roh could now make some lasting reforms during the remaining four years of his term.
He said Labour needed to offer an economic alternative that met the twin challenges of boosting growth now through temporary tax cuts and investment in jobs and delivering reform over the longer term to build "responsible capitalism".
He added that Labour must offer an economic alternative which meets the twin challenges of boosting growth now through temporary tax cuts and investment in jobs and delivering reform over the longer term to build "responsible capitalism".
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