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...advertising on politicians really kicked in - the need to raise money (from interest groups, mostly) and to exercise extreme caution lest one of your votes be used to decapitate you in a 20-second ad. It was before the Democrats and Republicans transformed themselves into more strictly ideological parties. Put all these factors in the cauldron and you create a poisonous atmosphere that makes legislative action on big issues almost impossible. It is also a prescription for conservative governance of the sort that has thrived since Ronald Reagan. Doing nothing is the easiest thing. (Read TIME's exclusive health-care...
...care - exactly the same percentage that disapproves. Lawmakers will soon head home to face voters without answers to many of their most basic worries: Will taxes go up? What treatments will be covered? Will there be a new, government-run public plan like Medicare? What new requirements will it put on businesses and individuals? What new sacrifices will Americans have to make? And what are the guarantees that an overhaul will bring health-care costs under control rather than make them rise even faster...
...Obama has gotten this far in part because he has put off the thorniest questions of who should pay and how big a role government should have. These, he says, are the issues that deepen "some long-standing ideological divisions in our Congress and, frankly, in our society." They are also the ones that have defeated Presidents who have tried to solve the problem, going all the way back to Teddy Roosevelt. But what looked like shrewd politics early in the process is increasingly being viewed on Capitol Hill as a failure to lead. As a senior Democratic congressional aide...
...with Tehran's offer. The official says the offer included assurances that the MEK operatives would not be tortured and that international human-rights organizations would have access to them. "They said, 'We'll let the Red Cross or Amnesty [International] monitor the MEK prisoners, and we won't put them into some Guantánamo-like prison,' " says the official...
Ahmadinejad had originally wanted to fire as many as four Ministers, but in a sign of his weakened position among the ruling hard-liners, he was informed that firing more than one would put his entire Cabinet to a vote of confidence in parliament (he had already removed nine in his first term). Some 200 parliamentarians, a majority in the Majlis, subsequently warned Ahmadinejad to "correct his behavior so that he follows the Leader's opinion seriously...