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THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW - January 21, 2010
Massachusetts Senate Race Results:
Obama's Signal That All Is Changed
by: Peter Grier
The Christian Science Monitor
Republican Scott Brown's upset victory in the Massachusetts
Senate race results portends huge challenges ahead for
President Obama and majority Democrats. National health
care reform may well stall, and new carbon-emissions rules
are now unlikely. What will be the revised agenda?
Washington - For President Obama, Republican Scott Brown's
victory in the Massachusetts Senate race changes everything.
OK, that may be an exaggeration. The GOP's triumph in a
blue state may not change everything so much as reveal that
everything has changed since Mr. Obama was inaugurated one
long year ago.
Since then, the economy has continued to struggle, while
unemployment has risen into the double digits. Meanwhile,
voters have watched as financial and auto firms got bailed
out and bankers continued to award themselves fat bonus
packages.
The voters wanted change in 2008, and what they've got so
far has been change they don't like.
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"I have no interest in sugarcoating what happened in
Massachusetts," said Sen. Robert Menendez (D) of New
Jersey, head of the Senate Democrats' campaign committee.
"There is a lot of anxiety in the country right now.
Americans are understandably impatient."
The future of the Obama administration's agenda now has
become much less certain.
Healthcare Reform's Dubious Future
Healthcare reform is in big trouble. There are maneuvers
Democrats could use to try to ram legislation through
despite losing their filibuster-proof, 60-seat Senate
majority. But in the wake of Democrat Martha Coakley's
crushing loss, some moderate Democrats elsewhere in the
country already are expressing reluctance to take any
drastic steps.
Moderate Sen. Jim Webb (D) of Virginia, for instance, said
the Senate should not hold any further votes on healthcare
until Senator-elect Brown is seated.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) of California insisted
that a healthcare bill will still pass, however. Liberal
Democrats said that, if anything, the Brown victory meant
they needed to move faster.
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Cap-and-Trade for Carbon Emissions? Gone.
Obama's ambitious proposal for cap-and-trade carbon-
emission regulation, meant to combat global climate
change, now is not going anywhere this year.
Cap-and-trade always faced a steep uphill climb. It would
constitute as big a change in national policy as healthcare
reform, maybe bigger. But lawmakers were never going to get
around to considering it until after the healthcare fight
was over.
Retiring Sen. Byron Dorgan (D) of North Dakota indicated
Tuesday that the Senate is not likely to take up cap-and-
trade at all in 2010.
"In the aftermath of a very, very heavy lift on healthcare,
it's unlikely that the Senate will turn to a very
complicated and controversial subject of cap-and-trade,"
Senator Dorgan told reporters.
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Ahead, a More Intense Focus on Jobs and the Economy
So what initiatives will the White House pursue?
Indications are that Obama may pivot from nation-changing
initiatives to a more populist agenda focused on jobs and
other aspects of the economy.
In recent days Obama has sounded almost like an angry
participant in a "tea party" rally as he excoriated huge
bonuses while proposing a new tax on big banks.
Every new US president reaches a point in his term where
the agenda he brought with him to office no longer applies.
The world has changed, and he has changed, and it is time
to improvise in response.
For Barack Obama, Jan. 20, 2010, thus may mark the
beginning of a new and difficult phase in his presidency.
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