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The political deck of cards can shuffle pretty quickly in America, and no one knows that better right now than President-elect Barack Obama.
He better enjoy his deli-bought corned beef sandwiches while he can. Despite the Republican leadership’s vow to cooperate in these troubled times, methinks nothing would make the GOP rank-and-file happier than for the Democrats and their standard-bearer to have to eat some crow.
Enabler is the terminology for anyone, wives, families, or friends, who empower addicts and abusive spouses to act irresponsibly. The United States government is the biggest enabler in the world. It bailed out: the Continental Bank in 1964, the Savings & Loan Industry in 1989, and the Long Term Capital Management Hedge Fund in 1998. Recently, the Federal Reserve, under political pressure, bailed out Bear Stearns. (See the op-ed in the April 11th Wall Street Journal, “Our Financial Bailout Culture,” by Ethan Penner.)
