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Ramesh Ponnuru makes many valid points in his analysis of the abject failure of the Republican Party in the 2008 elections [Dec. 1]. Yet I would like to suggest an extremely obvious reason: the abysmal record of the Bush Administration. With George W. Bush gone, Republicans will return, after a period of reflection, as a viable force in the U.S. In the meantime, Barack Obama has a great deal of work to do to repair the damage done by our worst President. Bill Gottdenker, MOUNTAINSIDE...
...there a downside here at all? Maybe these economists (and the Economist) think the downside is obvious, but it obviously isn't obvious, or we wouldn't have run up what seemed until a few weeks ago to be the very large deficits of the past 30 years. Unless there is a downside, why stop at a trillion? Why choose between cutting taxes and spending on infrastructure? Heck, let's do both. Party...
...quiet in Cheddar City. Cheese also ranks as one of the most despised books. It has been castigated as obvious, insulting. Many of its critics are people who have had copies of Cheese forced on them by overzealous bosses, sometimes even as they were let go. (Which means next year could be a big one for Cheese.) Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip and a chronicler of cubicle life, says, "Maybe a hundred people have suggested I mock it--which I have done." Others have parodied the book (Who Cut the Cheese? and Who Stole My Cheese...
...Democratic primary season focused largely on the question of who was better equipped to be Commander in Chief. In bringing in retired Marine general James Jones as his National Security Adviser and retaining Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Obama is turning to two men who might have seemed more obvious choices had John McCain won the White House. And all three were on the opposite side from Obama on the defining foreign policy decision of the past decade: whether to invade Iraq...
...newcomer and the more experienced matriarch wrestle over whose way is best. "There's a concern that the values and norms of a different culture will take your son and your grandchildren away from the values and norms embedded in your own family," says Apter. "Sometimes this is an obvious concern about ethnic differences or religious differences"; sometimes it's about whose job it is to do the ironing. "From women of the older generation, there was a sense of being frozen out of the relationship," says Apter. "And from the younger generation, a sense of constant disapproval or intrusion...