Roll Call: Americans Want Less Spending, Lower Taxes
Now that Congress and the president have released their budgets, the question in Washington becomes: “Now what?” It seems we have reached another impasse on how to move forward and actually pass one.
Bloomberg: Obama: Debt No ‘Immediate Crisis’ — CBO: ‘Serious Consequences’
“We don’t have an immediate crisis in terms of debt,” President Barack Obama said today, during a discussion of the federal deficit and budget talks with Congress in an interview aired by ABC News’ “Good Morning America.”’ “In fact, for the next ten years, it’s gonna be in a sustainable place.”
The Hill: New Ad Promotes Flexibility in Sequestration Cuts
A group supporting deficit reduction is launching a national advertising campaign targeting President Obama’s opposition to the across-the-board budget cuts known as sequestration that began on March 1.
The Washington Post: New Ad Hits Obama’s Claim That Sequester is a ‘Meat Cleaver Approach’
A new ad from a deficit reduction group takes on President Obama’s claims that the sequester represents a “meat cleaver approach” to cutting the deficit, noting that it eliminates just 3 percent of the government’s budget.
ADWEEK: Obama Gets Tweet Heat Before State of the Union Orgs zero in on #SOTU chatter
President Obama’s State of the Union address has politically minded marketers trying their hand at real-time ad buying on Twitter today. …
Chevron, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Bankrupting America, Heritage Foundation, the National Association of Manufacturers and Society for Human Resource Management are among the names purchasing Promoted Tweets for the #SOTU hashtag. …

