Obama agenda: 'Let's stay together…'
“In its budget submission next month, the Obama administration will urge lawmakers to revisit the failed attempt by a congressional supercommittee to cut the deficit by at least $1.2 trillion, the White House says,” per the AP . “The proposal runs counter to the common wisdom in Washington that any major deficit reduction effort is unlikely in a presidential election year. Instead, lawmakers are focusing on a one-year extension of a payroll tax cut and supplemental jobless benefits sought by the president as part of last fall's jobs agenda.”
“President Obama last night raked in millions for his re-election bid at glitzy back-to-back fund-raisers, ending at Harlem’s Apollo Theater,” The New York Post reports. “Obama first spoke at two high-roller events at the exclusive Daniel restaurant, where about 160 backers paid between $5,000 to $15,000 for tickets. Obama then stopped at Spike Lee’s Upper East Side brownstone, where 45 guests, including Mariah Carey, spent up to $35,800 for the event.” Obama also told a story of bringing Michelle Obama on a first date – to see Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing and he even belted out a few bars of Al Green’s Let’s Stay Together. Green was at the event.