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Our Useless White House Press Corps

William3458 Wrote: Mar 01, 2013 3:59 PM
The House has consistently passed budgets to control spending, balance the budget, begin the reform of entitlements, avoid sequstration, avoid the financial cliff over the last four years and have constantly received NOs from the President and Senate. They have performed their job over and over, but the dumb American public believes the Liar in Chief.

I don't always agree with Slate's Dave Weigel, but his withering piece on the willful obsolescence of the White House press corps came to mind today as President Obama fielded questions about the sequester.  Obama's initial remarks were filled with inaccuracies, misplaced blame and tendentious arguments -- but that's par for the course. The "question" and "answer" session was far more aggravating.  Let's review the transcript and recount just a few reasons...

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