Ari Fleischer actually said...

The elephant in the room is the United States economy. It's spending. It's the economy. It's jobs.

Fleischer emphasizes that economic issues should be the primary focus in the debate.

01/18/2012

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the only way that the tax cuts for the upper income tier expires is if Barack Obama is willing to put on the table the individual mandate.

It's kicking the can down the road so a grand bargain gets negotiated again later.

If he was the political winner, then why is the generic Republican candidate beating him by eight points in the recent Gallup poll? And why ...

I think you're going to get some type of intermediate agreement made that's going to be of some modest level of spending cuts.