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January 6, 10:30 AM, 2009 · Washington Babylon · Previous · Next  

The Latest Obamamaniac: Commentary Magazine

By Ken Silverstein

From Commentary:

So let’s get this straight: Robert Gates will be the Defense Secretary, we’re ramping up U.S. forces in Afghanistan and providing a reasonable period of time for a hand-off in Iraq, there isn’t going to be a windfall oil profits tax or income tax hike but there is going to be a huge set of business tax cuts—and Rick Warren is giving the invocation at the Inauguration. Who won in November?

I’m sure there will be times during the next four years when the Obama administration’s decisions on issues (e.g. judicial appointments) have conservatives banging their heads against the wall, bemoaning the fact that John McCain wasn’t elected. But so far it’s hard to imagine McCain would have been doing more than the incoming Obama team seems to be proposing —and with as much chance of success–to further some key center-Right policy aims.

(via Andrew Sullivan)

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