For those of you who, like I am, are watching hopefully every time President-elect Obama says something that sounds conservative or even moderate, here’s a promise to tuck into your collective memory bank:
If we’re going to make the investments we need, we must also be willing to shed the spending we don’t,” Obama said at news conference [today]. “We cannot sustain a system that bleeds billions of taxpayer dollars on programs that have outlived their usefulness, or exist solely because of the power of a politician, lobbyist, or interest group.
Let’s remain hopeful that this wasn’t just a “rhetorical flourish.”
