Window for "Change" Might be Closed

From Bloomberg - The window for President Barack Obama to accomplish big things may have closed. Obama came to office expressing admiration for Ronald Reagan and Franklin Roosevelt because of their ability to achieve change on a grand scale from the White House. With his party’s losses in congressional elections last night, Obama confronts a new balance of power, one that constrains his ability to deliver such unfinished pieces of his agenda as climate change legislation. Similar midterm losses in 1994 led then-President Bill Clinton to pursue small-bore initiatives, a strategy Obama derided as a candidate. Read here:
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Anonymous said...

I can see by the president's response to yesterday's historic election results he STILL doesn't seem to get it. While answering questions at his press conference today he specifically stated that he didn't believe his policies led to the drubbing his party took in yesterday's election. I gather it will be another 24 months before we have another opportunity to elect someone who DOES get it.

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