Word: careful
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After Wall Street stabilized in the spring, it didn't take long for the economy to become a political afterthought to the major battle of the year in Washington: health-care reform. But Tuesday's off-year election broke D.C.'s political trance like a brick through plate glass. Republicans triumphed in two major gubernatorial races, thanks largely to independents fleeing Democrats over economic worries. Suddenly every politician in town cares about the economy more than anything else. (See TIME's special "Out of Work in America...
...plan is simpler: link the drive for health-care reform, to which the Democrats are now deeply wedded, to the continuing economic troubles. "From the very outset of this debate" over health care, McConnell said Thursday, "the Administration has rested its case for reform on the need to do something about the economy. The economy was in bad shape, the argument went. And reforming health care would make it better ... But somewhere along the way, the Administration got off track...
...There needs to be far more involvement by children and youth themselves, those in the system and children in general who care about what is happening with their peers,” he said...
Ironically, the rise of Sunni extremist groups like al-Qaeda has brought Clinton's interests - microfinance, education and health care - to the center of national-security policy for the first time. The impetus came not from the State Department but from the military, where counterinsurgency doctrine demanded that social services in war zones - schools, justice, economic development - reinforce the military's efforts to secure the population. As a result, there was immediate chemistry between Clinton and General David Petraeus, author of the Army's counterinsurgency manual, who became one of her prime military mentors when she served on the Senate...
...Uribe, the truth lies somewhere between their left-right bluster. Both could stand to listen more to their countrymen who have voted with their feet. "I want to die in my country," says Fredys Villanueva, but not if he first can't find a job and affordable health care under Uribe. At the same time, says Castro, Chávez's "Robin Hood-type" government and its promotion of "social resentment" threaten to keep alienating a large swath of his country. As things are, however, it's doubtful that such voices stand to be heard above either Alvaro or Hugo...