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Obama statement on debt ceiling agreement: No real surprises. Key line: “Is this the deal I would have preferred? No.” They’ve reached a deal, but he doesn’t seem particularly pleased with it, or the process it took to get here. But he hopes that politicians will agree to the deal. He took no questions, BTW.

The more I think about it, the more I think the statement I would’ve given is better:

“The deal we struck today is crap. It’s awful. Expect unemployment to rise, consumer demand to drop, and the gap between the rich and everyone else to widen further. Republicans made it impossible to get a deal any less stupid and destructive and, bad as it is, we believe that default would be worse — slightly. When this whole thing goes south, you know who to come looking for. Republicans broke your economy. Today we were only able to prevent them from doing even worse. And when Republicans try to spin this into being Democrats’ fault — and I guarantee they will — remember what I say to you today; we told you so.”

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