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“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” John Adams said in 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,' December 1770.
 
President Obama would be well served to remember the “Adams Rule.”

He would have been well-served to remember it before taking to the podium at the White House Briefing Room this afternoon and feigning “confusion” over Republican insistence that tax cuts be paid for â€" or even complaining about a House Rules change that loosens budget enforcement on revenue reductions.

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