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What Obama Should Do

'I'd make clear to the American people that they made a choice in 2012 but that right-wing House Republicans have been blocking that choice, and the only way to implement that choice is for Congress to pass the Build America's Future Act.

'If House Republicans still block it, I'd make 2014 a referendum on it and them, and do whatever I could to take back the House.

'In short, the President must reframe the public debate around the future of the country and the investments we must make together in that future, rather than austerity economics. And focus on good jobs and broad-based prosperity rather than prosperity for a few and declining wages and insecurity for the many.'

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