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...military spends an extraordinary amount of time on improving what it calls "force protection" from outside threats. The Fort Hood inquiry is of a piece with that mind-set. Instead of exploring how to safeguard the mental health of service members, the inquiry demonstrates that the military has still not come to terms with the core issue: how best to prevent a troubled soldier from becoming an unlawful killer. Until it does that, any steps recommended to prevent another Nidal Malik Hasan or another Steven Green will be half measures at best...
Jarrett also addressed recent public concerns about the Obama administration’s stance on issues such as the economy, government spending, and health care reform. She emphasized that the public must acknowledge the difficulty of and time needed for meaningful changes, but also said that the administration plans to incorporate ideas of ordinary Americans into government policy...
...politics is that a body in motion tends to remain in motion - as long as the motion is downward. Right now, despite Obama's having helped save the world economy from falling into depression, having passed a round of important legislation on such issues as children's health and equal pay for women, and having effectively managed the national-security challenges he inherited, the people who control the vast majority of the political discourse across all platforms are nearly uniform in their belief that the political health of Obama's presidency is at best grim and at worst...
...this perception. And the only way to change this perception is to rack up some wins. After November's losses in the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races, Scott Brown's stunning capture of Ted Kennedy's Massachusetts Senate seat, a spate of Democratic congressional retirements, the stalling of health care, consistently nerve-wracking economic news and steadily falling national and state presidential poll numbers, finding some political or policy victories to sweep aside the clammy shroud of failure is not going to be easy...
...Obama can fight for a breakthrough - bipartisan or otherwise - on health care or education, display a muscular handling of an unexpected foreign policy crisis or recruit some significant new blood into his Administration. Maybe he'll get lucky and see some long-awaited improvement of the economy, in terms of jobs and wages. (See "Can Obama Rebuild Bipartisan Trust...