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Show Thursday. April 30. 2009 HERALD DAILY Congress adopts budget plan endorsing president's goals Andrew Taylor Republican filibuster, though Democrats promise to try to find bipartisan agreement. DemoThe Senate adopted the plan WASHINGTON crats in Congress capped by a 5343 vote just hours af3 House tally. ter a President Barack Obama's 100th day in office by advancNewly turned Democrat Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania ing a $3.4 trillion federal buda third of voted against the measure as get for next year he did earlier this month when it borrowed that prevents Republicans from blocking his it initially passed the Senate. expan- Three other Democrats also proposed trillion-dolla- r voted no: Ben Nelson of Nesion of government provided health care over the next braska, Robert Byrd of West decade. Virginia and Evan Bayh of Indiana. Wednesday's House and Seventeen House DemoSenate votes to adopt the g crats, mostly from nonbinding budget blueprint were only a first step toward districts, voted against the Obama's goal of providing budget. Not a single Republican in health care coverage for all the House or Senate voted for Americans. The budget plan for the fiscal year that begins the measure. Obama inherited an econOct. 1 sets the parameters for subsequent tax and spending omy in deep recession and a financial bailout costing bills expected to boost clean hundreds of billions of dollars, energy programs and student aid and extend many of and even some Republicans didn't fault him for deficits former President George W. Bush's tax cuts. rocketing to $1.7 trillion for the ongoing budget year and "It's a budget that reduces a $1.2 trillion in taxes, lowers the deficit and creates jobs," House Speaker 2010. said. "We inherited a colossal Nancy Pelosi, "It honors the three pillars of mess," Senate Budget Comthe Obama initiatives: energy, mittee Chairman Kent Consaid. health care and education." rad, Obama cheered passage of As a result, Democrats optthe plan, saying in a statement ed against extending Obama's that it "builds on the steps signature $400 tax cut for we've taken over the last 100 most workers beyond next year and cut $10 billion from days to move this economy his budget for from recession to recovery proand ultimately to prosperity." grams. Also gone are revenues from Obama's The budget outline also makes it plain that Democrats plan for curbing global warmwon't let a mountain of defiing by auctioning permits to emit greenhouse gases. cits and debt interfere with Republicans assaulted the advancing Obama's ambitious but costly agenda. plan as just the latest exIt gives Democrats the ample of a spending spree by Democrats that started with option of moving Obama's health care plan through Con- Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus bill. gress without the threat of a :h, asSOv .A'tr Pkf., - 233-19- -- GOP-lean-in- Press Associated CHARLES DHARAPAK President Barack Obama responds to a question during a prime time news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, on Wednesday. The news conference marks his 100th day in office. Obama channels FDR amid crises Ron Fournier THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Banks WASHINGTON failing and the economy in shambles, the new U.S. president reassured a nationwide audience that his administra tion was NEWS putting America ANALYSIS back on the right track. "It was the government's job to straighten out this situation and do it as quickly as possible," Franklin Delano Roosevelt said in the first of a series of radio addresses dubbed fireside chats, "and the job is being performed." More than seven decades later, Barack Obama borrowed heavily from FDR's play book non-defen- as he tried to slip as effortlessly into the role of comforter in chief. "Every American should know that their entire government is taking the utmost precautions and preparations," Obama said of the flu outbreak Wednesday night. Balancing two wars, a creaky economy and now, suddenly a flu bug of proportions, this new president used his third prime-tim- e news conference to assure America that its oft derided government could rise to the challenge. At the same time, he sought to inspire citizens to help themselves rather than rely Like Roosevelt, Obama voters has jumped a remark- in- able 31 points since October, herited a global economic crisis and moved quickly to address it, drawing stiff criticism even as he tried to lower expectations for a fast turnaround. "Our troubles will not be over tomorrow," FDR said during an Oct. 22, 1933, radio address, "but we are on our way, and we are headed in the right the month before Obama's election. Roosevelt managed to retain the public's support throughout the Great Depression, despite signs that much of his New Deal didn't work. He had a gift of inspiring confidence in the future. Are Obama's gifts as great? So far, he has managed like Roosevelt to give many Americans a common purpose. Wednesday night, "I think "We happen to have gotten a we're off to a good start, but it's just a start. I'm proud of big set of challenges, but we're not the first generation that what we've achieved, but I'm not content. I'm pleased with that's happened to," Obama our progress, but I'm not satis- said. "And I'm confident that solely on Washington. fied. we are going to meet these This is not to say Obama So far, Americans seem to will be as popular or successchallenges just like our grandful as Roosevelt, a president be giving Obama credit for parents and forebears met them before." whose record is still vulnerable trying. He has benefited from his to criticism, But the parallels An poll marking Obama's first 100 days in office political team's ability to use between these two relatively such as YouTube new media found that, for the first time young, challenged-by-crise- s and text messaging to get presidents are too tempting to in years, more people think his views out to a the country is headed in the ignore particularly when Obama seems to be channeling right direction than not. The public. Roosevelt used new FDR as a communicator. media, too: the radio. percentage of "right direction" ic direction." Reading from the same script, Obama declared AP-Gf- sDsixi 'X CRJ3 g L; 4 famtfOt fat((t(nt V f, 2. (Sa l(o) it f5 A-- wm 3 "KM mm MBWL I IaiiiaIhii ifiuijiuim jiivciaiimii jcwuiiy -MONTANA TV Earrinas Plus I'll give you a $89 gift FREE! n Are your drains smelly? Do they drain too slowly? Are they on the verge of overflowing? Do you stand in water when you shower? 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