The following would be the subject of gales of laughter and searing derision, if the media were not intoxicated with Obama. Julianna Goldman writes for Bloomberg:

President Barack Obama said he is committed to imposing fiscal discipline on the government and called on Congress to pass a law requiring any new spending be matched by higher taxes or cuts elsewhere.

Obama, in his weekly radio and Internet address, said that while his initiatives to confront the economic crisis have deepened the country's debt, his administration will "demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent."