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...meet the crisis; his budget proposals are gutted by Congress; and his attempts to leave Iraq, fight in Afghanistan and negotiate with the Iranians turn sour. "Those of us who are older and more scarred have to be skeptical about all that Obama is trying to do," says William Galston, a Clinton White House policy adviser. "If he's right, our traditional notion of the limits of the possible - the idea that Washington can only handle so much at one time - will be blown to smithereens. If he's wrong, he may be cruising for a bruising...
Conservative political analyst William Kristol ’73 and William A. Galston, a former policy advisor to Bill Clinton, reacted to the outcome of this year’s presidential race at a post-election forum held in the Tsai auditorium yesterday. At the event, which was moderated by Government Professor Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. ’53 and co-sponsored by the Center for American Political Studies and the Program on Constitutional Government, Kristol attributed this year’s Democratic success to a favorable political atmosphere for the left, not a permanent Republican decline. He began...
...next President seems destined to be severely constrained by huge debts and diminishing tax receipts - unless he finds some creative ways out of the morass ... and if he doesn't, his presidency will be a failure. One plausible path to success is proposed by the moderate Democratic scholars William Galston and Elaine Kamarck in a new Third Way paper appropriately titled, "Change You Can Believe in Needs a Government You Can Trust." Galston and Kamarck believe the next wave of activism is going to have to be different from government past - precise, streamlined and accountable. In order to build credibility...
...either man hopes to have the credibility to propose any new government spending. Obama wants to spend more than McCain, so he has to work harder to prove his reform chops. Indeed, Obama has tacitly acknowledged the prevailing skepticism by building accountability into some of his policy proposals. Galston and Kamarck like Obama's proposed Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank "because it would take specific ... decisions [like the 'Bridge to Nowhere'] out of the hands of politicians" and put them under the control of an independent five-member panel, similar to the Federal Reserve Board...
...Galston and Kamarck argue that the next President should start simple and build gradually on success, although they do acknowledge, "When an ambivalent public is demanding large changes even as it mistrusts government as the agent of change, patient incrementalism can convey the impression of weakness and lack of purpose...