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...Congress has a similar problem. Leadership from the Speaker to committee chairmen are running from one problem to another, hoping to put out fires before new ones flare up. By stretching the capacity of people to do more than a hundred things at one time, the system risks doing none of them well...
...Which is why Obama's decision to let the House Democrats draft the stimulus measure that underwent emergency surgery in the Senate last week was so interesting and could turn out to be so pivotal. Obama may have believed he had plenty of reasons to let House Speaker Nancy Pelosi run the stimulus show: his own aides lacked the time and knowledge to draft a cogent measure; he surely recalled how Clinton ran aground when he tried to force the details of an initial package down the throats of lawmakers 16 years ago; and most of all because the White...
...Stein, Ben • withdrawal of as University of Vermont commencement speaker due to extreme unpopularity of among would-be listeners contemptuous of anti-science views...
Still, even though Obama has an approval rating roughly three times the size of Congress's, Pelosi has shown herself unwilling to quietly execute Obama's agenda the way former Speaker Dennis Hastert did President George W. Bush's. Back then, House Republicans didn't openly revolt against President Bush until the sixth year of his Administration, bitterly but quietly swallowing early bipartisan programs like the Medicare Prescription Drug Plan and No Child Left Behind. By contrast, even before Obama took office, he and Pelosi diverged on bailing out the failing auto companies. Looking to secure as much support...
...repeal Bush's tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans this year, a move Obama has been unwilling to commit to in the current economic climate; some in the Administration have suggested that it's preferable to just let the cuts lapse when they expire next year. And the House Speaker has refused to rule out investigating former Bush Administration officials, even after Obama said he would prefer to keep the party's focus forward-looking...