The Week Ahead: President George Bush, Attacking The Fed, The Khashoggi Killing

WASHINGTON — Just weeks after a bitterly fought election swept
Democrats into power in Congress, a Republican president known for
reaching across the aisle passed away. Leaders of both parties paid
tribute to his civility and bipartisanship, saying the country
could use more of that. And then within days of the burial, they
went back to their partisan wars. That was December 2006 and the
president was Gerald R. Ford, but Washington seems almost certain
to be repeating history now that George Bush has died. The
political system has hit pause to honor a president of another era
for being everything it no longer is. The truce that essentially
took effect over the weekend only underscores how much Washington
and the nation have changed since Mr. Bush’s days. The kind of
compromises that Mr. Bush cut with a Democratic Congress on
deficits, taxes, civil rights and the environment during his four
years in office seem almost impossible to imagine in the era of
President Trump and the “resistance.” Read More
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