Tim Geithner kept his head down as he looked up at Jim Lehrer and explained the bank stress test. His tall forehead wrinkled as he slyly tried to entice the newsman into betting on a shell game. I felt the treasury secretary didn’t pay his social security taxes because he didn’t understand. By now Obama [...]

David Broder, dean of pundits, stands almost alone in urging the president to continue his pursuit of bipartisanship. He believes that will be necessary to pass “entitlement reform” — conservative code for stealing the social security trust fund. If Obama hadn’t compromised so much, so early on the stimulus bill, “no” saying Republicans might still [...]

Some pundits think Obama’s through promoting bipartisanship. I hope so, but he seems obsessed with the idea of “getting along” in The Audacity of Hope. He thinks red and blue make purple, but one being water and the other oil, they make sludge. That fouls the wings of his stimulus plan and may keep it [...]

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