You’re The Decider

I’m impressed with everything that is up in the air being directed at the same time:

• Inaugural festivities including parade, train ride, lincoln memorial, security, metro, parties
• Policies including health, stimulus, and green economy. I love that President Elect Hopey has people calling his plan not bold enough. I’d also imagine that you can’t get anything through the Senate without it being increased 50%. I hope that gets fixed by 2012. It’d be nice if instead of tax cuts for middle class, tax credits were given for doing things that are good for a greener world.
• Thoughtfulness on past egregiousness. It seems to me that Obama is signaling that perhaps the high-level decision makers should be held accountable to rule of law, but that low-level implementers shouldn’t be. But it also seems to me that you can’t move forward without looking backwards. If you don’t know where you came from, you might be stepping on quicksand, or blindsided by events that were put in motion 5 years ago. You have to bear witness to the full truth of the past, or you’ll be doomed to repeat it.

Things I’d also keep an eye on are “unseasonable weather” and “taser incident.” Both seem to be on the rise.

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