A President Who Will Never Do the Right Thing
Gail Collins offers this fantasy of a Christmas miracle: For the good of the country, Dick Cheney resigns. Then George Bush resigns. These acts elevate Nancy Pelosi to the presidency until January 20. She immediately implements whatever agenda President-Elect Obama dictates. The Collins fantasy not only delivers immediate action to address the economic crisis, it gives the nation its first female president, if only for a month or so.
Back in the land of reality, we have a president who is so unconcerned about his legacy that he refuses to consider a proposed $300 billion economic stimulus package because that amount of money -- believed even by some conservative economists to be the minimum amount needed to prompt a recovery -- is too large. The Wall Street Journal disagrees with Bush:
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