Scads of liberals gleefully predicted that the financial crisis and deep recession would destroy Americans' faith in markets and increase their confidence in Big Government. Many conservatives gloomily feared they were right.
Hasn't happened. If anything, public opinion has moved in the other direction, with most Americans rejecting the stimulus package and the health care bill, denying that government action is needed to address global warming, and expressing negative feelings about labor unions.
"It's well known that he and I disagreed about the war from its outset, yet no one could doubt President Bush's support for our troops, or his love of country and commitment to our security," Obama said. "As I have said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it."
The deaths of 22 American troops in a four-day span in Afghanistan is a grim foretaste of the price in blood U.S. forces are likely to pay as Afghanistan holds parliamentary elections this month and offensive operations are stepped up against Taliban strongholds in the fall, experts and military officials said.
While only a few political strategists are predicting a Republican takeover of the Senate in November, Democrats may, in fact, lose the Senate if they cannot win several key races in the West, where incumbents such as Washington's Patty Murray are fighting for their political lives against surprisingly strong GOP challengers.
Democrats and the media still brand Republicans as the party of the rich, and Republicans seem to believe it’s true. It’s not.
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