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Many analysts are hoping Congress extends the program to April - but not beyond that. "Any kind of stimulus must be for a brief period of time or it doesn't work," says Saft. "If they're given a long period of time, there wouldn't be much movement early on because people would sit on the sidelines and watch the market...
...said on condition of anonymity. "It's 45 days from the U.S. to Pakistan [by sea], and then another two weeks over land into Afghanistan." Some military officers say privately that a quick, forceful decision creates its own momentum toward success, while a dragged-out process makes troops, allies, Congress and the U.S. public question U.S. resolve. ("Honestly, in Europe there is not great enthusiasm for sending more troops to Afghanistan," European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said...
...have made the national issues an issue in this race." - To a CNN reporter, on how Virginia's governor race signifies national politics; his campaign attempted to nationalize the race by linking Deeds to a Democratic Congress...
...their constituencies and less willing to risk stepping out of line to further Obama's priorities when they are not in line with those of voters back home. That may not bode well for Obama's health care bill, especially after Senate majority leader Harry Reid signaled Tuesday that Congress is unlikely to deliver a bill to Obama's desk this year. That means the contentious debate will stretch into 2010 - an election year when there will be far more political careers at stake...
...importance of this attitude shift can't be underestimated. Whenever Congress has tried in the past to strike down the Cuba travel ban - even when a majority of Americans said they wanted to get rid of it - the biggest obstacle has always been the staunch resistance of politically potent Cuban-American voters. But the newest bill, the freedom to travel to Cuba act, introduced this year in both the House and Senate, suddenly has Cuban-American backing - and as a result a decidedly better chance of passing. In a recent statement, Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, a Republican and co-sponsor...