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Barack Obama: The American people are watching what we do here. Obviously, their patience is already thin. This is deja vu all over…

On the recordDecember 27, 2012
The American people are watching what we do here. Obviously, their patience is already thin. This is deja vu all over again. America wonders why it is that in this town for some reason you can't get stuff done in an organized timetable, why everything always has to wait until the last minute. Well, we're now at the last minute. And the American people are not going to have any patience for a politically self-inflicted wound to our economy.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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President Obama highlights the impatience of the American people regarding Congress's inability to act in a timely manner on economic issues.

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