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...some reason, they have yet to hit the big payoff...
...second point is that a lasered-in President is an antidote to the flightiness and indiscipline endemic to both Washington and Wall Street. Fixing one problem at a time may strike Obama as mere gum-chewing. But in modern-day Washington, one is a very high number. The reason so many people were left slack-jawed by the Obama budget was not that they disagreed with his premise that health-care costs are out of control or that energy independence is desirable or that better schools are important to the future of the economy. It was the real-world knowledge...
...another reason to focus - perhaps the hardest for the Obama team to accept - is that this is a rookie White House still finding its legs. That's not criticism. It's just a fact. Obama defended his vast agenda by citing John F. Kennedy, who didn't have the luxury of choosing between civil rights and a mission to the moon. But history shows that seven weeks after being sworn in, Kennedy was bumbling his way toward the Bay of Pigs. It takes time to get good at the presidency...
...This is the reason behind the Obama team's madcap multitasking. As press secretary Robert Gibbs put it the other day, the whole American house is on fire, not just the particular room where the flames happen to be roaring. "Are you going to call the fire department and ask them to put all of it out?" Gibbs asked. "Or are you going to say, 'You know what? We love the living room. Start over there. And if you can, get quickly to the kitchen, and next to the den.' We could do that. And maybe by the time they...
...government is led primarily by the bureaucracy. We have to replace this with a system in which the politicians take the lead to formulate the policies, make decisions on policies and execute those policies. The current government is totally dependent on and controlled by the bureaucracy. For that very reason, in difficult times like these, even when politicians in the ruling camp want to make changes, they have nothing...