Gridlock

Call me naïve. Okay. An idealist. I'd rather be an idealist than an ideologue. But I'm constitutionally and temperamentally averse to succumbing to inaction and despair.

If the U.S. wants new energy to be the centerpiece of a new economy in which -- in the president's words, the U.S. "consumes less and produces more," then it will have to have an industrial strategy. Getting there won't be easy. Just as the insurance companies impede sensible reforms in health care, and big oil and coal block vital changes in energy, and Wall Street guts vital reform of finance, global corporations and banks will spend a lot of money to defend the unsustainable trade policies of the old economy.

My hope that the Obama administration eschews the typical form of crafted bipartisanship characterized by short-term compromises that gloss over ideological differences.

Arnold's executive order laying off 10,000 state employees -- and slashing another 200,000 paychecks --is insulting because the budget crisis we're in is largely his fault.

Democrats have every right to feel angry, but I'd like to suggest that when they get red in the face and loose their venom on the world, they are no longer Democrats, but something else entirely.

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