Off-The-Cliff, But Catching On
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 18th, 2010 5:38 am by HL
Off-The-Cliff, But Catching On
George Will, Houston Chronicle
Assessing Obama, One Year Later
Dan Balz, Washington Post
A month before he was inaugurated, Barack Obama pinpointed one of the biggest challenges he would face as president. Could he restore confidence in government, even as he was proposing the biggest federal intervention in the domestic economy in a generation?At the time, Obama said he did not think his victory marked an abrupt end to the skepticism ushered in by President Ronald Reagan toward top-down government and social engineering by Washington.”What we don't know yet is whether my administration and this next generation of leadership is going to be able to hew to a new, more…
Mr. Schwarzenegger Goes to Washington
Independents Key in Massachusetts Election
Brian Mooney, Boston Globe
Independent voters in Massachusetts are an unpredictable breed and downright ornery when times are bad. On Tuesday, they will determine who will be the state’s next US senator in a race too close to call, capturing the nation’s attention because the fate of a national health care overhaul hangs in the balance.Termed unenrolled voters because they are not affiliated with a party, independents constitute a majority of the registered voters in the state. Republicans, outnumbered by Democrats by more than 3 to 1, need to capture a huge majority of independents and a slice of…
