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...debated whether it was worth going," Collins recalls. "I figured they were just going to put pressure on us to accept their previous offer," which didn't shrink the spending in the package as much as she had demanded. When she got there, however, she was surprised to discover White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, who had come to make a deal. "It was as if all of a sudden they had decided to get serious with the negotiations," she says. "They agreed on the bottom line of our proposal, which was $780 billion...
...weeks and months to come, Snowe and Collins can expect to be lavished with even more attention from the White House. Those two Maine moderates, plus Pennsylvania Republican Senator Arlen Specter, provided the margin that prevented Republicans from holding Barack Obama's stimulus package hostage to a filibuster. They also represent the sum total to date of Obama's claim of bipartisan support for his economic plans in Congress...
...White House is still wooing them. Obama has already met in the Oval Office with both. He will have to keep the courtship going if he hopes to match his success on the stimulus with measures to recapitalize the banking system and reform entitlements, energy and health care. On those issues, Snowe and Collins would tend to be supportive, but neither will go along automatically. Snowe, for one, thinks Obama could have done a better job of reaching out to House Republicans and making them as much a part of the negotiations in that chamber as they were...
...energy and education to health-care reform. But given how hard it was for the President to win the backing of enough members of his own party, let alone the GOP, the stimulus fight showed the limits of his seemingly enormous electoral mandate. Many Democrats, for instance, felt the White House tried too hard to win the favor of Republicans, who in the end didn't lend their support. "I am not happy with it," said Senator Tom Harkin, Democrat of Iowa. "You are not looking at a happy camper. I mean, they took a lot of stuff...
...benign neglect shown on the Israeli-Palestinian peace effort by the Bush Administration won't be an option for the Obama Administration. But the policy pursued by the Bush White House in its final year of isolating Hamas while promoting talks about talks between Olmert and Abbas is no longer viable. Israel has tacked to the right, away from moves toward a solution based on the Arab peace plan for which Obama recently expressed support. The terms of that plan call for a two-state solution on the basis of the 1967 borders and sharing Jerusalem. That Palestinian bottom line...