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From: bentway	1/28/2009 9:20:25 PM
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GOP'S GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY By CHARLES HURT - INSIDE WASHINGTON nypost.com January 22, 2009 -- WASHINGTON - In two short years, Republicans have thrown away their majority control in both houses of Congress and yesterday lost their final claim to power in this town when President Obama accepted the keys to the White House. Utterly powerless, Republicans are now despondent. Some walk the streets looking for scarce GOP jobs. Others bury their heads in embarrassment over all the curses their party's leaders invited upon their house. It would appear that Republicans have no prospects and their only hope is to go all-in betting that Obama will fail and pray the next four years will be nothing more than the second term of the disastrous presidency of Jimmy Carter. But there is a spot of hope for them left over from all the hope that flows in the streets in the wake of Obama's coronation. That hope resides in an unusual place: Obama's zeal for greatness. Even for the outsized egos that typify most men who run for president, Obama's ambition is truly extraordinary. It is not enough for him to be a president from the Democratic Party. Obama doesn't wear labels well or carry flags for other people. Obama has about as much interest in belonging to a party as he did belonging to the Senate. In that, he made pretty clear that one of 100 didn't appeal much to him. But One of One sure does. And this is where Republicans hold their power. Instead of a party, Obama yearns to belong to history. Always thinking of the big picture and the long run, Obama wants his legacy to be for the ages. But to pull that off, Obama must not only succeed at solving myriad huge and thorny problems that haunt the country right now, he must also shatter the partisan game that so few before him have conquered. It will not be enough to simply beat Republicans some more on Capitol Hill. Obama must recruit them and make them part of his effort and accomplish enormous things with their help. The only way to do that is to adopt significant conservative platforms such as cutting taxes, staring down union demands and bringing fiscal sanity to the federal government. This, of course, risks turning his fellow Democrats on him. Such a strategy of GOP cooperation may not be as much fun or glorious as the bomb-throwing strategy that won Republicans control of Congress in 1994. But these are different times and this is a different president with different ambitions. churt@nypost.com

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