Like Hilzoy, I am a wonk. I love policy. Love reading about it, love writing about it, love analyzing it, etc. However, I am even more loath than she is to put much into the candidates' position papers and websites. Why?
Because, to a certain extent, it doesn't matter what the President wants. It matters what Congress wants.
Ultimately, it is up to Congress to write and pass laws, with all the compromise and squabbling that entails. While presidents can and do use the bully pulpit, congress can decide to shit or piss all over any proposal a president can make. Because Democrats are likely to retain or expand their congressional majority in the fall, this makes President McCain's plans, in particular, pretty irrelevant because none of them will be enacted. There's no way Pelosi and Reid will allow McCain to stack the courts with right-wing judges, pass massive tax cuts, etc.
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