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...promises during the campaign. High on his agenda are ambitious proposals for subsidies and tax breaks to develop new energy sources like biofuels, a sweeping health-care plan, and shifting the tax burden toward those higher on the income scale. By Wednesday congressional power players were already planning the path forward in anticipation of these initiatives. House Republicans are gaming leadership changes, and among top Democrats, there's an urgency to raise their dismal approval ratings by delivering for Obama. "Given the [Democratic] majorities in both bodies, it'll be incumbent on everyone here to get things done," says...
...have noted the parallels between Lincoln and Obama: the Illinois roots, the penchant for inspiring oratory, the historic nature of both candidacies. (Lest the connection be overlooked, Obama launched his presidential campaign in Springfield, Ill., Lincoln's hometown.) We could do worse than to have Obama follow Lincoln's path, knitting together a fractured country, raising our sights from the mundane to the sublime. Still, it's hard to draw a direct comparison between the two. Pundits may like to say our country has "never" been as divided as it is in 2008. But Obama isn't confronting a Civil...
...Federal Reserve) designed to stabilize and equalize a volatile national economy. Indeed, Wilson faced a country whose rage over Wall Street corruption and plutocratic greed makes current class-based grumbling look decidedly mild. Wilson managed to survive the political storm and win re-election by forging a judicious path between laissez-faire and socialism. What's more, he did it in an era when "socialism" was a genuine grass-roots movement rather than an empty political charge...
...election night, the networks spent a valiant couple of hours attempting to avoid reporting the news. That news, after they had called Ohio for Barack Obama around 9:20 p.m. E.T., cutting off any path to victory for John McCain, was that the election was over and Obama was the next President of the United States. But until 11:00:01 p.m. E.T., the press discussed how Obama might govern if he won, without directly saying that, oh, right...
...Matter?": Throughout his career, John McCain has shown himself willing to put others at risk to advance his career or his causes [Oct. 27]. Like President Bush, he is a person who shoots from the hip, invites conflict and sees compromise as a sign of weakness rather than a path to progress. His impulsiveness has been evident this fall in rash decisions such as selecting Sarah Palin and suspending his campaign. While his supporters call him a maverick, I call him reckless. And as the past eight years have shown, recklessness is not what we need in a President...