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04-07-2011, 03:32 AM
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">A fiery President Obama insisted Tuesday that if he and congressional leaders couldn’t reach a deal to avert a government shutdown, “I want a meeting again tomorrow here at the White House.”
“I will invite the same folks that we invited today,” he added. “And if that doesn’t work, we’ll invite them again the day after that. And I will have my entire team available to work through the details of getting a deal done.”
<span style='font-size: 11pt'>Obama’s team may not include the president himself. Despite the impasse in Washington over federal spending, the president as of early Wednesday was scheduled to give two speeches outside of Washington: one on energy in the Philadelphia suburbs, then another Wednesday evening to a group of black political activists in New York.</span> </div></div>
Such leadership! (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/44/post/despite-spending-impasse-obama-to-head-out-of-washington/2011/04/05/AFpsdknC_blog.html)
“I will invite the same folks that we invited today,” he added. “And if that doesn’t work, we’ll invite them again the day after that. And I will have my entire team available to work through the details of getting a deal done.”
<span style='font-size: 11pt'>Obama’s team may not include the president himself. Despite the impasse in Washington over federal spending, the president as of early Wednesday was scheduled to give two speeches outside of Washington: one on energy in the Philadelphia suburbs, then another Wednesday evening to a group of black political activists in New York.</span> </div></div>
Such leadership! (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/44/post/despite-spending-impasse-obama-to-head-out-of-washington/2011/04/05/AFpsdknC_blog.html)