Both candidates deserve equal blame for not addressing with any specificity California's most urgent problem.

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What we have not seen is any specificity from the Republicans or any indication from the leadership that they're going to accept the basic principle that wealthier Americans are going to pay higher rates, rates that were in place under the Clinton administration when this economy grew rapidly, the middle class saw its incomes rise and the wealthy did very well, to boot.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney,

And you certainly can't achieve it through the kind of vague proposal that we've seen from Republicans, which contains no specificity whatsoever, not a single deduction named or loophole identified to be closed.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

We need specificity and detail, not prose.

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These are early beta versions of diagrams I am develloping as part of the research for my next book, so there are certainly going to be flaws (not the least of which is specificity to the American case).

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And what we have not seen yet is any kind of specificity from Republicans on how they would do it differently.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney,

We have not seen anything like that kind of specificity from Republicans.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney,

One of the reasons the Obama team hasn't gotten into too much specificity yet is because they do not want to dictate to the new Congress exactly what to do, transition officials said.

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