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...grew up in Nebraska, where the prairies are broad and the minds are narrow. Or so I thought. My hometown, which comprises Nebraska Congressional District Two, split the state’s electoral votes for the first time, and gave one to Barack Obama, as blue a Democrat as ever dared to take on the Red Sea of the Midwest...
...Race didn’t figure into the calculus very significantly. There was of course the occasional yahoo who chased me off his lawn accusing me of being a traitor to my race. (And I was once asked by an older couple who nevertheless assured me they were voting Democrat whether I was the “right color for that job” when I announced myself as an Obama campaign worker.) But for most people, questions about religion or race were largely overshadowed by economic considerations...
...another new Democratic President aims to kick-start the economy, Oberstar finds himself in a unique position to help shape another unprecedented national infrastructure boom. The top Democrat on the House Transportation Committee, where he has represented Minnesota for 34 years, Oberstar says not only is the system primed for such an infusion but he believes the roughly $65 billion in infrastructure stimulus requested by President-elect Barack Obama will create at least a million jobs by June. (Read "How to Spend a Trillion Dollars...
...history. They were once mutual admirers in Woodrow Wilson's war cabinet, and in 1920 Roosevelt backed Hoover for the presidency--as a Democrat. Hoover's status as the Great Humanitarian, a title bestowed for his heroic Belgian food relief during World War I, had long since been tarnished by his refusal as President to countenance direct government assistance to victims of his own country's Depression. After the Inauguration, Hoover and Roosevelt would never meet again. Their shared ride down Pennsylvania Avenue traversed an endless mile in awkward silence. At the Capitol, 100,000 onlookers had assembled under pewter...
...want to buy stupid stuff. "We keep hearing we need to spend more. On what?" a transition aide asked. Obama's latest economic report predicted at least three more years of fairly high unemployment even if the stimulus succeeds, so speed can't be the only criterion. Democrat Jim Oberstar of Minnesota, chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, has suggested that shovel-ready should apply to projects that can begin within a year, not just 90 days. This would give a real boost to mass transit; a two-year window would leave even more time to make...