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...decide to write this book now? All I wanted to say was, Guys, trouble is coming and we've got to take serious constructive steps to deal with the moment we're in. Period. I swept the decks, took off from work, sat down in July and wrote roughly 30,000 words...
...book, you write about taking your teenage son to Ronald Reagan's funeral, saying you wanted him to see history. How does your son influence the way you're looking at this election? We talk a great deal. I don't want to share his views, but he is passionate about politics and has a young man's wonderfully interesting take on the personalities that waltz through American history. But mostly, as any parent of a young man or young woman will tell you, his great impact on me is to introduce me to Arcade Fire, to play his music...
...most obvious culprits in a legislative meltdown that many warn could take the economy down with it were House Republicans, who had gotten an earful from their constituents disapproving of the bailout and had been strongly against it from the start. After scuttling the first proposed deal last week at a contentious White House meeting, saying they simply didn't have the votes, House Republican leaders forced a renegotiation of the bill, moving it further to the right to make it more palatable to their members. Then, after marathon talks over the weekend, an agreement was struck...
...point that his staff were already claiming credit for the legislative coup Monday morning on the assumption that it would pass. "This is very bad for McCain," said Clyde Wilcox, a government professor at Georgetown University. "So he interrupts his campaign to fly to Washington to deliver a deal, and then cannot deliver his party? This suggests that everyone is running for cover on this...
...often happens in moments of crisis, the candidates were themselves, only more so. McCain was the action hero, who promised to do the brave, hard things that no one else could. Fire the SEC Chairman! Suspend the campaign! Let's Make a Deal! He was a human diorama of the Great Man theory of history. Of course, getting credit for bringing all parties to the table to reach a historic agreement that pretty much everyone hates may make him wonder if action is overrated, especially after his campaign's self-congratulatory statements ended up being premature. Even with stakes higher...