The first hundred days were busy, Ba-rack Obama noted, but the pace would be just as hectic in the second hundred: they would be spent building "a library dedicated to my first hundred days". The president delivered the joke at the White House press corps' annual shindig, but it makes an apt metaphor for the past week. He and his officials have released a blizzard of tax and healthcare proposals that largely repackage, or add detail to, the ambitious draft budget he released in February.
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