9.2.11

‎"The reasonable center, which he relentlessly seeks, has simply not held. Obama is saddled with an unloved hybrid economic policy shaped by events and his innate pragmatism and undermined by his lack of juice or legislative muscle. What he’s tried thus far isn’t working, according to the jobs numbers, liberal and conservative economists, and strapped working people everywhere."

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