(There may be some readers of this blog who very much disagree with this, but:)
Mark Schmitt at The American Prospect writes, of the current administration:
From the most powerful committee chairs to the most recently elected, congressional Democrats quibbled with and opposed Obama on health reform, climate change, financial regulation, and economic stimulus. The slightest risk of losing re-election sent them into a tizzy. And the White House has tiptoed gently around those fears. This is a clash not of arrogance but of mutual timidity.
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