Originally Posted by Snake Doctor

I agree with the first part.

I think one of the biggest things working in Obama's favor is that he hasn't been in Washington very long, and by virtue of that alone hasn't been sucked into that whole power and corruption game.

He's also not married to the Clinton administration and doesn't have to defend their policies or carry around their baggage either.

He's in a unique position to fix alot of problems because nobody can blame him for causing them, or working for the people who caused them, or whatever.

I also think he's moving at a quick pace because he can. Like Rahm Emanuel said, you don't want to let a crisis go to waste.
If you slow down and allow bills to die in committee or let things get picked apart on the Sunday shows for months on end, to where you drown in the minutiae, you'll never get anything done. He knows he'll never have more influence over congress and with the American people than right now, so props to him for aiming high and not settling for this incremental change-without-changing bullshit that we usually get out of Washington.