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As Matt Yglesias pointed out on Friday, "The basic fact of the matter is that the HUD chief is not very important to housing policy... the Treasury Department has the relevant analytical expertise and the tax-writing committees in congress run the show legislatively".
But they will not fix a Congress run by people who seek to render government ineffective.
Mr. Bush is hardly the first two-term president to face a Congress run by the opposition party.
Not surprisingly, with a Congress run in substantial part by people who do not believe government should work, it doesn't.
But rather than fanning those flames and letting Congress run riot, the president should have said: "I'll handle this".
BEHIND THE NEWS The trade deal had languished in a Congress run by Democrats leery of free trade, and President Obama sought some improvements for American exporters.
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Let's hope Congress runs with it.
These are bills that Congress ran up.
The TUC's Congress runs until Wednesday.
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But would Frankel run?
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