A Busy Summer for Obama

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/05/22/a_busy_summer_for_obama.html

A Busy Summer for Obama

Michael Tomasky explains how the Obama administration is just getting revved up.

"Almost every day, there's something: the credit-card bill, the call to overhaul regulation of derivatives, the deal on auto emissions... in normal times, any one of these (especially that last one, which Congress had failed to pull off for 30 years) would have been thought a huge deal."

"But in the present context, they're only the appetizers. The really grandiose stuff is coming toward us right now, and the moment is dramatic. What's remarkable about it is that Democrats in Washington don't merely hope that by September we'll have a health-care bill and that climate-change legislation will be accomplished by November. The Obamans, with a confidence that borders on arrogance, expect it. The deals are being cut on the Hill right now. Summer, typically a lugubrious interlude in these parts, when lawmakers go home and lobbyists flee to Bethany Beach (our mini-Hamptons, and yes, go ahead and laugh), will this year find the BlackBerrys and iPhones blinking and buzzing ferociously as the theoretical trillions flit in and out of in-boxes and find their final resting place."

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