Critics Challenged to Do More Than Just Say No but Republican Senator Says Gop Wants Spending of '$1 Billion an Hour' to End

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › March 19, 2009

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Washington -- Addressing his handling of the financial crisis, President Barack Obama said Wednesday that "the buck stops with me, and we're responsible" but challenged Republican critics to do more than say no.

"Opposition is always easy. Saying no to something is easy. Saying yes to something and figuring out how to solve problems and governing, that's hard," Obama said in an interview with a group of reporters from the Journal Sentinel and more than a dozen other newspapers Wednesday in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.

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Critics Challenged to Do More Than Just Say No but Republican Senator Says Gop Wants Spending of '$1 Billion an Hour' to End

"I'm not impressed by just being able to say no," Obama said. "I think what will be interesting is the degree to which my Republican colleagues start putting forward an affirmative agenda that's not based on ideology but on the very real struggles and pain that people are feeling right now around the coun...

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