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...areas in which they believe their opponents are vulnerable: the ongoing credit crunch in the commercial real estate market, the looming costs of unemployment tax increases on states and businesses, the massive budget deficits and what Cantor calls an uncertain environment that Obama's ambitious agenda on health care, financial reform and climate change is creating for the business community. Cantor admits the group has yet to come up with any solutions, but they are meeting over the next few months to hear from experts and to hammer out concrete proposals. The method is similar to the process Pelosi went...
...Cantor surely knows this, which is why he's still busy working at overhauling the GOP's Party of No image. When asked if House Republicans will be unified in their opposition to the health-care bill, he instead focuses on all the areas in which Republicans and Democrats agree, such as emphasizing preventive medicine, electronic records, medical-liability reform and helping those with pre-existing conditions get coverage. It's a striking change of tone from a similar interview with TIME shortly before the stimulus vote, when the minority whip was cocky in his boast of unified opposition. Still...
...approach through the first eight Obama months of seeking to get unanimous opposition to everything he was doing on the economy and health care established the image of the Party of No," says Norm Ornstein, a congressional scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. "It will take some time to revamp the image into a Party of Ideas. And if the Republicans continue to try to get unanimous or near unanimous opposition to all Obama domestic initiatives, it will be harder to overcome the negative stereotype...
...Health-care reform isn't for the faint-hearted. Just ask President Obama. So an air of menace could help Philipp Rösler, Germany's new Health Minister, in his quest to shake up the country's expensive public health-care system. At 36, the Vietnamese-born politician is the youngest member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's new center-right coalition government and the first Asian ever to be appointed a German cabinet minister. Softly spoken and affable, he certainly doesn't seem like a political bruiser. But rumor has it that no one dared challenge him when...
...sler now has one of the most difficult jobs in Merkel's cabinet. As Health Minister, he'll come under intense pressure from the myriad lobbyists, medical insurers, doctors' groups and pharmaceutical companies as he attempts to change the financing structure of the country's health-care system. The appointment of a relative ingénu to this key post caused widespread surprise. One newspaper carried the headline: "FDP Youngster in a Dogfight." But some analysts say his youth and inexperience in federal government will not be a huge issue. " Rösler is very competent, he's a doctor...