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While the government’s decision to back two new nuclear reactors shows a commitment to reducing climate change, the technology is a complex one with various drawbacks, and the president should keep an open mind with regard to new technological innovations that might offer a better solution. One such innovation is the nation-wide Smart Grid that is being studied by the Department of Energy. A Smart Grid is expected to be more efficient in delivering electricity and has a smaller environmental impact than conventional methods. We hope such projects continue in tandem with the new nuclear initiative...
...substance-less populism and counter-productive anti-government sentiment are in danger of carrying the day, especially if Democrats like Ms. Meyer are already willing to throw their president to the dogs. Does she really believe that the Palins, Boehners and Cantors of the world will deliver more jobs, better health-care and a speedier withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan than Obama can? Change can only be achieved incrementally, and the president’s fiery and inspiring State of the Union—in which he outlined plans for reining in the deficit, improving the economy, and alleviating...
...tires, images run through his mind of his bleak life: his harried and shrill mother, his dead father, the cash he swiped from a bakery, the copper who nabbed him, the condescending director who’s dangled the prospect of an Olympic future or at least better treatment in the present. A few yards from the finish line, he stops. A crooked grin spreads over his face. The second-place runner passes him. Life will deal him a hard blow for not compromising with those in charge, but he’ll never be anybody’s blue...
...October, the process had dragged on for the better part of a year, and the public mood had grown bitter. According to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, the percentage of Americans who said Obama had done a "very good" job of "achieving his goals" was less than half the level of January 2009, and significantly fewer people believed he was successfully "changing business as usual in Washington." (See the top 10 political defections...
Breaking the Circle In recent years, Republicans have played this style of politics better than Democrats. Winning elections by making government look foolish is a more natural strategy for the antigovernment party. But there's no guarantee Democrats won't one day try something similar. Were a Republican President and Congress to make a genuine effort to rein in entitlement spending, Democrats might act in much the same way McConnell and company are acting now. At its core, vicious-circle politics isn't an assault on liberal solutions to hard problems; it's an assault on any solutions to hard...