In the debate Friday night, Barack Obama responded to John McCain's idea of freezing federal spending by arguing that "the problem with a spending freeze is you're using a hatchet where you need a scalpel." Then, on Face the Nation(pdf) on Sunday, he furthered his case: "The president has to make choices, and those choices mean that when you deal with a budget you don't take an axe to it, you use a scalpel. There are programs in our government that do not work..." Yes, there are...Read it here.
