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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.

Sacrifices?

By Marc Ambinder
Dec 12 2007, 2:11 PM ET Comment

Sacrifices... "Most importantly, the federal government has to restrain its spending..."...."major reductions in civilian spending..." RWG wants 10% spending cuts.. What about folks who rely on this 10%? "That would require they're trying to figure out other ways to do it...:" Basically: throw them to the wind. .... Paul: "I think it's absolutely unnecessary to sacrifice.. give people more of their own money."...... Huckabee: "Sometimes, it's not so much doing things so that people sacrifice, it's doing something...differently." Calls for a prevention-based health care system. Wants to "kill the snake," rather than to kill a "snake bite..." Romney: would he be willing to run a pay for certain crucial programs? "We can eliminate the things that aren't critical."...proposes to cut down to "one or two" the governments' programs to combat teen pregnancy....Thompson: "Yes." Military, security of our people, infrastructure, research ... a different answer than the rest...and the only one to prioritize infrastructure. Thompson ends by an "honest" assessment of the entitlement problem.

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