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Advice for Obama From a Reaganite
By David Corn - Politics DailyAs President Barack Obama ends his summer vacation and prepares for a return to the tussles of Washington, can he get advice from Ronald Reagan on how to pass his semi-stalled health reform package? Not quite -- but close. I recently wrote a column noting that the current president might learn a thing or two from Reagan, who came to Washington with an ambitious economic agenda of tax cuts for the well-to-do and severe cuts in social spending that he managed to pass over the objections of the leaders of the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives by whipping up grass-roots pressure. In ...
Ronald Reagan and Obama's Health Care Struggles
By David Corn - Politics DailyReading the latest news about the health care reform fight -- that the Obama administration is willing to jettison the public insurance option (which would set up a government-run plan to compete with private insurance and keep the privateers honest) -- I thought of Ronald Reagan. Barack Obama's problems winning an overhaul of the nation's troubled health care system began the day after he beat John McCain. That's the moment his impressive political machine should have begun a quick transformation -- from using the 13 million supporters who helped him reach the White House to using them to ...
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