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newsweek.com - 1/9/2009
Newsweek: The bumpy road to the inauguration
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Howard Fineman notes that rather than give Obama a clean, quick coronation, Washington (and especially Obama's own party) seems intent on giving the president-elect as much trouble as possible.

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Daily Kos — ... has been so long since Congress needed to pass a huge and urgent package of spending increases and tax cuts that few people understand how the politics of such a thing might work. David Brooks: Maybe Obama can pull this off, but I have my worries. By this time next year, he’ll either be a great president or a broken one. And we Villagers will take both sides so as to be proven right, regardless. Howard Fineman: A Bumpy Start (A monograph on how the Villagers will keep score.) Peter ...

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