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Jonathan Cohn says Barack Obama ought to model himself after George W. Bush.

How's that?

One of Bush?s most remarkable qualities--and one, I admit, that I frequently admired--was his stubborn focus on goals and willingness to push political boundaries aggressively....

Like Bush, Obama is pursuing an ambitious agenda....

When asked repeatedly in the final weeks which of his legislative goals he planned to discard, because of the financial crisis, he refused to play along, insisting his agenda remained the same. Just today, incoming Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said something similar on ABC's "This Week." After making the case for energy independence and health care reform, even in the midst of an economic calamity, Emanuel said "This opportunity, this crisis, provides--as the president-elect has said repatedly--the opportunity to do things Americans have pushed off for years." President Bush couldn't have said it better.

So, this will be the excuse we will here time and time again. For every aggressive, power-grabbing excess: Bush did it!

Is there anything that is not Bush's fault?

Full post as published by Althouse on November 10, 2008 (boomark / email).