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	<title><![CDATA[Is Obama a Budget Hawk?]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harry-moroz/is-obama-a-budget-hawk_b_146693.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>As President-elect Obama outlines his plans for economic stimulus -- or economic "recovery" as the <em>Times</em>'s Carl Hulse <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/washington/26words.html?ref=business">noted</a> rather cheekily this morning -- he has been singing paeans to budget hawks concerned that profligate spending in the short term will produce, well, profligate spending in the long term. <em>Politico</em> <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15987_Page2.html">found him</a> "wooing" Blue Dog Democrats, who have periodically thrown a wrench in House-Senate negotiations about stimulus (er, recovery) and about other spending increases like the energy bill...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-12-27T05:12:00-05:00</date_published>
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