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...economy. Democrats are not the only ones who go to the hospital, attend college, or buy gas; these expenses affect liberals, conservatives, and independents alike. Given the long-standing weaknesses of our economy, Obama’s supposedly “liberal” proposal presents the most viable fix for the problems currently afflicting all Americans...
...power has come to an abrupt end - even as opinion polls show that the public remains by his side. To most grownups, seven weeks is an eyeblink (in baseball it's called spring training), but along the Acela line it is much ... too ... long to wait for Obama to fix the economy. And so the doomsday chorus began: He's trying to do too much. He's doing too little. His bank bailout is too complicated. His health-care plan is hollow. The great orator can't communicate his priorities. His priorities are clear - but screwed...
...unquestioned urgency. Political opportunists will no doubt jockey to claim credit or place blame, but ultimately everyone is looking to the Administration for leadership in this area, and only ideologues will grumble if Obama manages to find a way through it. The President and his team were elected to fix the economy, a senior Republican acknowledges, but the electorate is less clear, he argues, on the rest of the Obama agenda...
...last week's conference, there were tantalizing hints that the DSM-V might fix some of these problems. Dr. Steven Hyman, provost of Harvard, a former psychiatry professor at its medical school and a former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, agitated at the meeting for a new DSM framework that would stop trying to divide mental problems into discrete all-or-nothing categories. That method is appropriate for some medical problems - you either have leukemia or you don't - but depression, for instance, doesn't work like that. (Read "Why Do the Mentally Ill Die Younger...
...make his budget more transparent, a point his team never tires of pointing out. He included items that President George W. Bush did not to obscure the true operating cost of the government, such as the money for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, an annual multibillion-dollar fix of the fees that Medicare pays physicians and Alternative Minimum Tax relief for the middle class. "At least the budget that the Obama Administration presented, even though it's huge and it's a huge deficit - and that enables the other team to beat up on it - the truth is that...