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...earn its first victory in over two months, the Harvard men’s hockey team had to do it the hard...
...their say, for the new President to ride in to the rescue and actually fulfill his promise of "change we can believe in by turning this into a bill we can actually live with. Maybe he is building to a denouement, when a President who promised to make hard decisions takes a sprawling bill that tries to do so many things at once and performs some highly public sacrifices of some Democratic sacred cows. And by so doing, shows who's really in charge of leading America out of these dark times...
...From his hard-edged Inaugural vow that "our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions, has surely passed" to his frequent promise of smarter government, Obama has reflected a national consensus - which seems to exclude only the 535 sitting lawmakers - that the old way stinks. And beyond his rhetorical insistence on transparency and reform, Obama has invited Republicans to the party - first a cocktail party, next a Super Bowl party - as though he cares about what they think and where they disagree with him. (See pictures of Obama's Inauguration...
...There is trauma surgery, and there is transplant surgery; one usually takes a lot longer than the other, and you'd be insane to try to do both together. So I wondered why he seemed to set himself up to fail, insisting that lawmakers do something very big, very hard, very fast, and in a whole...
...This isn't just the first test, it's the biggest. Trillion-dollar legislation doesn't come along every day, and the hard choices are not just what we spend money on but how, at what speed, toward which priorities. Is getting a bad bill quickly really worth it? Is taking more time to get it right really so risky...