No good answer

So the $13 a week middle class tax cut only lasts a year? if that? It's not in this next budget? Tapper's question.

Obama makes no promises.

Chip Reid from CBS asked a good one too, about Obama breaking his campaign promise of not passing on debt to the next generation, yet his budget goes up and up and up. Obama says health care cost control is the answer. Reid follows up, if you're reforming it structurally, why does it still go up and up?

No good answer.

P.S. Calls Major Garrett by his last name. Major got in a good one that Obama ran on improving our image in the world, and China remonstrating with us on the strength of our currency and some in the EU balking on stimulus---commies and socialists telling us we're spending too much?

Good questions on eliminating the charitable deduction (Mike Allen, Politico) and on funding embryonic stem cell research when adult cells have shown the promise (John Morton, Wash. Times).

He was very stern. I don't think he cracked a smile once. Looked testy.

UPDATE: AP skeptical.Fact check: Obama having it both ways on the economy?