Hints and tips:
...Jake and his friend Bill are sitting near a river, drinking (obviously) and preparing lunch: We unwrapped the little parcels of lunch. “Find any salt?” “First the egg,” said Bill....
...No Bill Clinton-style emoting for him. The most personal Mr Obama got this week was when he said the result “feels bad”....
...There are also moves to challenge key aspects of Mr Obama’s Wall Street regulatory bill, which has yet to be signed into law....
...“What we are seeing is what looks like deft management of the Democratic party by the White House and by Rahm Emanuel [Mr Obama’s chief of staff],” said Jim Morone, a scholar on the political science of...
...“I believe Congress will pass and the president will sign such a bill.”...
...communicator of his generation, totally lost control of the narrative in his first year in office and allowed people to view something they had voted for as something they suddenly didn’t want,” says Jim Morone...
...It doesn’t appear to have made its mind up,” says Jim Morone, a scholar at Brown University in Rhode Island....
...courage and sticks to the public plan against the opposition of the insurance companies then these other liberal complaints, which are mostly about dealing with the Bush legacy, will be forgotten,” says Jim Morone...
...“It seems odd to cite the 1940s as a paragon of bipartisanship,” says Jim Morone, head of political science at Brown University. “It was among the most bitterly partisan moments in recent history.”...
...“Getting the stimulus passed was supposed to be the easy bit,” says Bill Galston, who heads a project at the Brookings Institution that studies bipartisanship....
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