IMHO, not so well, 40% tax cuts and Republicans cheering about their success at reigning in the tax-and-spend Democrats with the aid of the MSM who miss no chance to label the stimulus package gigantic, monsterous, immense, and so on.

At some point the democrats are going to have to take the gloves off.

I hear the lone Republican backing tax increases in the California legislature was just stripped of his leadership position by his party.

I think Obama would be wise to publically define his expectations as to the depth of bi-partisanship necessary to fight the economic crisis, and not allow republican foot-dragging to be sold as fiscal responsibility.

Stop it!

You’re making me sound like a loser who abandons my agenda and he betrays good of the nation at the slightest obstacle because I’m afraid of the Repbublicans being mean to me.

Other than the facts, evidence, and all of my actual actions as President, there is no basis whatsoever for your implication, and I resent it!

Only two previous Scy of HHS have had clear credentials on the health side, both under Reagan. What are the essential requirements for the post?

The anti-abortion industry is active and aggressive in more than just Kansas. The pushback has to be strong everywhere.

Also, a duel was fought on the Capitol’s steps between the President-Elect and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, nothing metaphorical or symbolic, only about language, what it means, and how it’s used.

“This administration needs to follow their gut and do whats right for all of us.”

That’s my first reaction too. My second thought is we are being warned of what the fight will look like. Typical GOP strategy against doing the right thing is to confabulate that it is something else that is hateful if only it were true. One of their favorite rants is that national health care will take away the right to choose doctors and treatments. When that fails, then they move on to turning health care into a “morality play” and try to strip women’s reproductive rights to zero. They exaggerate the rights of unborn and unwanted foetuses to inflate them into Presidents of the Uterus. While all the fighting is going on over that, we are completely distracted. Thousands of people are dying every year from lack of health care, and thousands more are going bankrupt trying to pay for medical operations and treatments in an overpriced system.

So we are being warned here not to drop our guard and to be ready to fight.