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Americans Get Mad As Hell With Reasonable Frequency But Quickly Return To Their Families And Sitcoms.

So Was It A Political Mistake For Obama To Put So Many Eggs In The Health-care-reform Basket? Well, A Negative Decision From The Supreme Court Will Certainly Make It Appear So.

To Become Informed And Hold Government Accountable, The General Public Needs To Obtain News That Is Comprehensive Yet Interesting And Understandable, That Conveys Facts And Outcomes, Not Cosmetic Images And Airy Promises. But That Is Not What The Public Demands.

Bringing Democratic Control To The Conduct Of Foreign Policy Requires A Struggle Merely To Force The Issue Onto The Public Agenda.

There Are More People At Obama's Table Offering Ideas Than There Were Five Years Ago, But When It Came To Facing Up To The Republicans' Threat To Force A Double-dip Recession If They Didn't Get Their Millionaires' Tax Cut, They Still Amounted To Nothing. And Therein Lies Our Fundamental Problem.