Despite its lack of participation in this particular dance, Cook said that his firm has "zero" issue spending more than a billion dollars on a smaller company, provided that the deal is "in the best interest of Apple in the long-term".
A onetime Nixon and Reagan aide, he said he left his party this year out of frustration with its positions on social issues, spending and domestic surveillance.
Two approaches to the issue — spending money on the technologies we have now, or investing in future breakthroughs — are sometimes portrayed as conflicting.
He's prepared to take the fight to Obama on the biggest bundle of issues – spending, debt, the deficit, taxes, entitlements, and the reversing of America's accelerating decline under Obama.
"On the big issues — spending, taxes, what we do with the deficit — I just don't see much difference," said Representative Tom Cole of Oklahoma, a member of the Republican leadership, "and more importantly, I don't see an escape".
On "Meet the Press," Mr. Lew will provide a glimpse into the private negotiations, before Senator Richard J. Durbin, assistant majority leader of Illinois, and Senator Jim DeMint, Republican of Arizona, get to the root of the issue: spending and taxes.
I take issue with your statement that the Charter Revision Commission "does not dispute" the concern that because of constitutional issues, spending by political parties may be difficult to control under a system of nonpartisan elections.
Proponents are cheered that the changes — long sought by the district but denied by Congressional diktat — are tucked away in a mammoth multi-issue spending bill that is proving difficult to amend or defeat.
I'm absolutely convinced, though it's hard to prove, that most of our customers put a lot of effort into the Y2K issue, spending their money that way.
And if job creation is the issue, spending on overpriced fighter jets is virtually the least effective way to do it.
