Whatever happens in Massachusetts, Obama will pursue his agenda, White House says

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The White House maintains that President Obama will carry on his agenda, regardless of the outcome of today’s special election in Massachusetts in which his party’s grip on the Senate is at stake.

The White House also suggested that Wednesday’s anniversary of Obama’s inauguration is an arbitrary yardstick by which to measure what the president has accomplished so far.

‘It’s a calendar date that denotes you’ve been here a year,’’ Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, said today. ‘But the president didn’t denote that he’d do these things his first year’’ or the second year, or the next.

‘Change takes a long time,’’ Gibbs said. ‘Change has to go through Congress.’’

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-- Mark Silva