Rauch: Is Obama Repeating Bush's Mistakes?

Obama, like Bush, set out with an agenda of his own devising, only to have another, crisis-driven agenda imposed upon him. Like Bush, he chose not to decouple the two agendas but to portray them as inextricably linked and drive them both forward. Like Bush, he seemed to decide that the crisis made a handy sledgehammer. Unlike Bush, he let his people say so.

From a long, thoughtful, refreshingly even-handed article at

http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/st_20090328_6609.php