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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Video: Obama on talking the talk

(By Ed Morrissey, Hot Air) - Gosh, Barack Obama likes to talk about deficits, doesn’t he? The NRCC put together a short video of Obama’s Greatest Deficit Hits, along with helpful overlays of the buzzwords he likes to use to remind us just how urgent action has become. We can no longer live off of “credit cards,” Obama advises us … as he sends budgets that borrow 40 cents on the dollar. We have to “bring down” deficits now and we “cannot continue … to kick the can down the road,” although cutting $61 billion from a budget with a $1600 billion hole in it is apparently too radical for the this deficit-hawk-in-theory. It seems that one of the “festering problems” to which Obama refers is himself:

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