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Jonathan Cohn says Barack Obama ought to model himself after George W. Bush.
Althouse — How's that? One of Bush’s most remarkable qualities--and one, I admit, that I frequently admired--was his stubborn focus on goals and willingness to push political boundaries aggressively.... Like Bush, Obama is pursuing an ambitious agenda.... When asked repeatedly in the final weeks which of his legislative goals he planned to discard, because of the financial crisis, he refused to play along, insisting his agenda remained the same. Just today, incoming Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said something similar on ABC's "This Week." After making the case ...

Obama should be like Bush
The Reaction — ... Cohn argues that has actually accomplished a great deal as president, from overhauling the tax code to reforming education to gutting the regulatory state to rewriting "long-standing doctrine on foreign policy and human rights" to launching "a war that overthrew a dictator, destabilized a region, and committed the U.S. to an occupation whose end is still unknown." ...

Obama Should Be Like Bush
The Moderate Voice — ... At The New Republic today, Jonathan Cohn argues that has actually accomplished a great deal as president, from overhauling the tax code to reforming education to gutting the regulatory state to rewriting “long-standing doctrine on foreign policy and human rights” to launching “a war that overthrew a dictator, destabilized a region, and committed the U.S. to an occupation whose end is still unknown.” ...

DAY'S END ROUNDUP
The Hill's Blog Briefing Room — ... . But one thing Obama should learn from Bush is the willingness to go beyond the political conventional wisdom in pressing for his goals, writes The Plank's Jonathan Cohn . Dean, who said he won't seek a second term, has accomplished his mission of making his party stronger and able to compete from coast to coast, writes ...

Making Me Nervous
JustOneMinute — Jonathan Cohn of TNR frightens me with this catalog of the Obama agenda: Like Bush, Obama is pursuing an ambitious agenda: Re-organizing the country’s economy and infrastructure to fight climate change and achieve energy independence; overhauling its massive health care system; undoing all of the tax changes Bush signed into law and, in the process, addressing the country’s long-term fiscal crisis; beginning unprecedented levels of investment in young children’s education and well-being; repairing America’s image in the world and, in the process, finishing the fight against ...