Ruth Marcus on All Topics
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“The greatest peril for Obama ... lies in the question of whether he can produce the new, post-partisan, surmounting-special-interests politics that he envisioned during the campaign.”
“Obama wants a government that is bigger than the revenue it generates, but he is unwilling to acknowledge the implications of that stance.”
“Maybe her conservative colleagues, before lunging to overrule precedents, could take some counsel from a wise Latina.”
“In the longer term, Democrats-only health reform is a perilous enterprise; the risk of being blamed exceeds the chances for political reward.”
“The politics of health-care make the F-22 fight look simple. It won't be easy to expand coverage in a way that controls costs.”
“The judicial confirmation wars are like conflict in the Middle East, with a never-ending cycle of attacks and recriminations over grievances past.”
“Crying -- or at least misting up a little -- you can get away with these days. But quitting? Not until you absolutely have to, and even then you might hold on for a few extra weeks.”
“Maybe [Jenny Sanford] is a new role model for all wronged spouses, not just political ones.”
“The health-care debate is focused these days way too much on the tail and not nearly enough on the rest of the dog.”
“Is this health-care deja vu all over again, the Clinton disaster of 1993-94 revisited?”
“The more I looked at the law on disparate impact, the more, well, empathy I had for the decision by the trial judge and the appeals court to rule the other way [in the Ricci case].”
“If Sotomayor is the judicial radical of conservative imaginings, certainly there ought to be something more in her paper trail.”
“A 'Newyorkrican' ... Souter with a taste for Nancy Drew. Sounds pretty good to me.”
“Some people think we're paying too much attention to former Vice President Dick Cheney. I think we may be paying too little.”
“Obama inherited a minefield of difficult legal issues entwined in the war on terrorism, and he has picked his way carefully, intelligently and -- for the most part -- correctly through them.”
