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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

It's Thursday, March 19th. I'm Dorothy Wickendon, executive editor of The New Yorker writers and editors about politics. It's Thursday, March 19th.

I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

President Obama didn't mince words yesterday in his attack in Cleveland on congressional Republicans.

Lower taxes for the most well-off, higher taxes for working families.

Gutted investments in education, job training,

infrastructure, military, and our national security, kicking tens of millions of Americans

off their health insurance, ending Medicare as we know it.

If you have heard these kinds of arguments about this kind of budget before, that's because

you have seen this kind of budget before. Republicans in Congress you have seen this kind of budget before.

Republicans in Congress have put forward the same proposals year after year after year,

regardless of the realities of the economy. He was commenting on the Republicans' proposed budget.

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