National view: Obama is now free to be his liberal self

January 5, 2013 at 6:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune

The rout was complete, the retreat disorderly. President Obama got his tax hikes naked of spending cuts passed by the ostensibly Republican House of Representatives. After which, you might expect him to pivot to his self-proclaimed “principle” of fiscal “balance” by taking the lead on reducing spending. “Why,” asked the Post on the eve of the final fiscal-cliff agreement, “is the nation’s leader not embracing and then explaining the balanced reforms the nation needs?”
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