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Via Instapundit and the Washington Examiner, here’s another keepsake from the Barack Obama administration’s economic advisers. Remember when Paul Ryan goaded then-Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner into admitting that the White House had no plan to deal with mounting national debt? Yesterday, Senator Jeff Sessions got OMB Director Jeff Zients to admit that he didn’t know the dollar figure of the added deficits in the Obama budget projection he was defending. In his defense, Zients tells Sessions, “There are a lot of numbers there.” Well, yeah — it’s a budget, isn’t it?

Today President Bush met with members of the American Society of the Italian Legions of Merit in the Oval Office on Italian Independence Day. The society representatives visited President Bush to present a Medal of Honor commemorating the 40th anniversary of their organization. The same medal was also presented Italian President Carlo Ciampi in November. The President also met with Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong of Singapore in the Oval Office as well as hosting the Super Bowl Champion Pittsburgh Steelers at the White House and held a swearing in ceremony of Rob Portman as the Director of the Office...