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Politics : THE WHITE HOUSE
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To: Gersh Avery who wrote (25351)2/10/2009 11:59:20 AM
From: Peter Dierks2 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 25737
 
Crisis, Catastrophe: Are These Words of Hope?
Charles Krauthammer
Friday, February 06, 2009

"A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe."
-- President Obama, Feb. 4.

WASHINGTON -- Catastrophe, mind you. So much for the president who in his inaugural address two weeks earlier declared "we have chosen hope over fear." Until, that is, you need fear to pass a bill.

And so much for the promise to banish the money changers and influence peddlers from the temple. An ostentatious executive order banning lobbyists was immediately followed by the nomination of at least a dozen current or former lobbyists to high position. Followed by a Treasury secretary who allegedly couldn't understand the ...

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