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Obama skips debt commission meeting

Priorities, priorities….

From CNN

President Obama did not attend a White House meeting Thursday with members of his own debt commission, irking some of the Democrats on the panel who were expecting a high-level push from the commander-in-chief to show that its comprehensive deficit reduction plan is being taken seriously by the White House.

“He should have at least dropped by,” one Democratic member of the debt commission told CNN, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he wanted to speak more freely about the panel’s private meeting.

A second senior Democratic aide close to the panel added that commission members were miffed and privately believe the President did not attend because it would have been awkward “given the fact that he has just endorsed $900 billion in deficit spending” with the tax cut deal.

At his daily briefing, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs was asked about the President’s absence from the commission meeting and said Obama may have missed the commission meeting because he was attending a separate meeting with his Export Council around the same time.

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