Bush’s Hoover Impression Flirts With Depression
By Marie Cocco —
At the earliest, it is likely to be at least February or March before the first dollar of an Obama recovery plan is felt. This is a national disgrace.

Obama the Realist
By E.J. Dionne —
In electing Barack Obama, the country traded the foreign policy of the second President Bush for the foreign policy of the first President Bush.

Obama’s Shrewd Choices
By Joe Conason —
Barack Obama’s appointees will implement the Obama program, not only because that is what he tells them to do but because that is what they have come to believe is best for the country.