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Democrats control Congress, which was supposed to change everything; they could have stepped up, passed their own package and dared Bush to veto it. But it's easy to see why they didn't: they don't want to face a populist backlash alone. Revulsion at a Wall Street bailout has crossed ideological lines, with liberals as disgusted by handouts to irresponsible bankers as conservatives are by a socialist solution to capitalist problems. On the Hill, constituent phone calls ran 100 to 1 against the Paulson plan, and most vulnerable incumbents in both parties voted against it despite...
Harvard Republican Club President Colin J. Motley ’10 agreed that “don’t ask, don’t tell” is discriminatory but said Harvard’s rules unjustly punish the military for a policy enacted by the U.S. Congress and should be changed...
...it’s too expensive.” Swartz said, though, that the current economic crunch could lead to some speed bumps in the march toward health care reform. “I think it’s hard to tell today, without knowing what Congress will approve,” she said. “Feasibility depends on political will.” According to Howard K. Koh, a professor of Public Health and former Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Health, Obama’s plan calls to mind some of the main facets of Massachusetts?...
...with McCain couldn't have been greater: "Now is not the time for fear, now is not the time for panic," he said. "We may not be able to do everything overnight ... But I want you to understand, I know we can do it ... Things are never smooth in Congress. It will get done...
...looking for new leadership, and that will create an internal battle within the party for the soul of the party," says James Thurber, director of American University's Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies. But with an unpopular lame-duck President, an even more unpopular Republican Party in Congress and a leadership vacuum at the top of the House, that soul search could be a very painful experience...