Obama to supporters: I understand your frustration

Reduction into his 2012 movement, President Barack Obama is telling his group he understands their frustration over the collaboration he's made with Republicans, while get ready them for more to come.

It's a appropriate warning given the future vote on raising the arrears ceiling and the continuing debate over long-term deficit drop, both issues Obama says can only be solved if Republicans and Democrats work in concert. But further compromises could demonstrate a tough pill to gulp for many of Obama's liberal backers, who have grown tired of watching the president let go ground to the GOP on spending cuts and tax breaks for the wealthy.

During a raucous fundraiser paying attention on young people in San Francisco Wednesday night, Obama said his group is not alone in their aggravation.

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WH: Ambassador Huntsman to leave China post

U.S. diplomat to China Jon Huntsman, a Republican with possible presidential ambitions, submit a letter of acceptance to the White House on Monday proclaimed he intends to leave the post April 30, a elder administration official said.

Huntsman, a preceding governor of Utah, was appointed ambassador by President Barack Obama in 2009. Huntsman's plans have generated substantial attention in political circles because his distant policy skill could stand out in a packed GOP field.

Past Monday, White House lecturer Robert Gibbs said Huntsman had learned officials of his desire to end his diplomatic assignment. Bar Gibbs said the White House had no indication that Huntsman would seek to run next to the president.

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Dems say GOP exempting $1 trillion from deficit

Democrats are reproachful newly empower House Republicans of exempting more than $1 trillion in proposed tax cuts and senior spending in excess of the next 10 years from a promise to cut centralized deficit.

The exemption comprise a bill to repeal last year's health care legislation as well as GOP-backed proposals extending a series of tax cuts for upper profits filers that are due to run out in two years, according to a tally more than a few governing body Democrats were to present at a midmorning new meeting Thursday.

Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York, Dick Durbin of Illinois in addition to Debbie Stabenow of Michigan was predictable to be present at.

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Obama struggles to keep Dems from killing tax cuts

President Barack Obama struggled Tuesday to stop wholesale defections by fellow Democrats that could go under the tax deal he worked out with Republicans — angry confrontation that could subject millions of Americans to a big holiday-season tax increase.

Many GOP lawmakers seemed ready to hold in your arms the Obama-GOP compromise and declare victory. The question was whether enough Democrats would join them in hold up, particularly in the House, where liberal acrimony of the president's concession on tax breaks for the wealthiest runs strong.

Obama went on national TV to give a ringing security of his compromise, declaring it the necessary price for heading off a tax increase that neither taxpayers nor the weak financial system could stand and for ahead more months of being without a job payments for millions of jobless workers.

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Obama: GOP hasn't been honest with Americans

Arguing determinedly next to returning Republicans to power, President Barack Obama told Iowa voters Wednesday that the GOP has been lying about what needs to be done to revitalize the economy and reinstate middle-class dreams.

"We can't imagine that there are shortcuts," the president said, addressing about 70 voters in a grassy backyard.

"When you seem at the choice we face in this vote coming up," Obama said, "the additional side, what it's actually offering is the same policies that from 2001 to 2009 put off hard troubles and didn't really speak honestly to the American people concerning how we're gonna get this country on way over the long term."

Five weeks in front of midterm elections that will settle on whether Democrats keep control of Congress, Obama confront stark voter angst. The first question he got was from a woman who said of her son, a new college graduate, and his friends: "They are behind their hope which is a note you inspired them with."

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Boehner calls on Obama to fire economic team

House Minority Leader John Boehner is vocation on President Obama to fire his financial team, including Treasury desk Tim Geithner and senior economic adviser Larry Summers. He says the administration's labors to boost the economy have resulted only in additional job loss.

"The American people are asking, 'Where are the jobs?,' and every one the president's economic team has to offer are swears of 'green shoots' that never seem to grow," Boehner said in a speech to the City Club of Cleveland that he posted on his website. "The worse belongings get, the more they circle the wagons and defend the hard to defend."

Boehner, who is in line to take the speaker's gavel should the GOP win organize of the House, slammed the White House and Democrats for running up the central deficit and called last year's incentive plan a failure that did little to stem the nation's rising being without a job. Obama, Boehner said, should ask for and accept the resignation of his entire economic team to give the country a "fresh start."

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