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The Clinton-Obama race is getting hotter. How long until she points out that she was married to the first black president?

Nancy Pelosi’s hundred hours are over, and the republic has sustained no serious damage. In part that is because the president still has the veto pen, and we trust that he will use it to keep taxpayers from having to pay for embryo-destructive research. In part it is because of the Democrats’ own failures of nerve: They didn’t go very far in imposing the pharmaceutical price controls they want. Probably the worst thing the Democrats did was to raise the minimum wage, which will cause some unfortunate people to be unemployed but should not hurt the economy very much. If this turns out to have been the high tide of the Pelosi majority, we should count ourselves blessed.

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The Clinton-Obama race is getting hotter. How long until she points out that she was married to the first black president?

Nancy Pelosi’s hundred hours are over, and the republic has sustained no serious damage. In part that is because the president still has the veto pen, and we trust that he will use it to keep taxpayers from having to pay for embryo-destructive research. In part it is because of the Democrats’ own failures of nerve: They didn’t go very far in imposing the pharmaceutical price controls they want. Probably the worst thing the Democrats did was to raise the minimum wage, which will cause some unfortunate people to be unemployed but should not hurt the economy very much. If this turns out to have been the high tide of the Pelosi majority, we should count ourselves blessed.