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This Sunday- President Obama deploys his budget director to the Sunday circuit, armed with talking points.
And Egypt manages to stay on the agenda for another week- as guests were eager to weigh in how the White House handled the crisis.
So did the Obama Administration earn a pat on the back- or a slap on the wrist- for its handling of the Egyptian power struggle? The President gets a mixed review from Senator John McCain on CBS’ Face the Nation.
SEN JOHN MCCAIN (R-AZ):
“I think the president has handled this situation well...We should have seen this coming ...A lot of this should have been seen. This administration and the liberal left in America viewed Bush's democracy efforts as a way or an excuse to go to war.”
And the President gets a thumbs up from an unlikely source.
REP. JOHN BEOHNER (R-OH): “I think they’ve handled a very difficult situation about as well as it could be handled.”
But Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty says- members of the President’s team were never on the same page.
FMR. GOV. TIM PAWLENTY (R-MN): "First of all before [Obama's] administration spoke like a tower of Babel, with multiple voices saying multiple things, they should have had one message that was clear and consistent and measured and appropriate.”
And New York Times columnist David Brooks blames Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the inconsistencies.
DAVID BROOKS (NEW YORK TIMES COLUMNIST):” I don’t think Hillary Clinton handled this situation particularly well. I don’t know what what they were thinking that Mubarak could lead a transition to democracy? I don’t think the President really...well, I thought there were moments when he was superb, but he didn’t really control his administration fast enough.”
As the debate about Egypt winds down- a new battle is brewing over the budget. White House Budget Director Jacob Lew rolled out the administration’s talking points on CNN’s State of the Union.
JACOB LEW (WHITE HOUSE BUDGET DIRECTOR): “We have a responsible budget that will cut in half the deficit by the end of the president's first term. It deals with all parts of the budget.”
Politico points out…
“Lew was so on message he repeatedly refused to answer a yes-or-no question about whether House Republicans’ proposal to strip $100 billion from the 2011 budget, which has not yet been passed, is viable.”
CANDY CROWLEY: “Is it even doable to take $100 billion out of that budget?”
JACOB LEW: “We look forward to working with Congress.”
CANDY CROWLEY: “$100 billion, yes or no?”
JACOB LEW: “We look forward to working with Congress.”
Lew sticks to the talking points- and Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan sticks to the Republican message: the President needs sharper scissors.
REP. PAUL RYAN (R-WI): "It sounds like the similar budgets that he has been giving us the last couple of years...It looks like to me that it is going to be very small on spending discipline and a lot of new spending so-called investments."
President Obama will submit that budget to Congress on Monday. Finally, in keeping with our running tab of who’s in- and who’s out of the 2012 Presidential race- Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour polishes up his resume on Fox News Sunday.
GOV. HALEY BARBOUR (R-MS): "I have a record of governor I have a record of cutting spending....I’m a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy, or lady, who gets elected President will immediately be lobbying.”
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