Obama has the misfortune of starting his Presidency with the one piece of legislation guaranteed to cause the fiercest partisan combat.

"In an election year, the level of partisan combat goes up, so any government program can be perceived as part of that controversy," he said.

But lawmakers remain locked in partisan combat over whether to restore discipline through higher taxes or tighter spending.

At the center of the narrative is the individual, and the many expressions of Jewish resistance in ghettos, concentration camps, and partisan combat.

Mainly, he hated liberals, reserving his most intense hatred for journalists, academics and government bureaucrats, all of whom had returned the favor over years of partisan combat.

An Activist Court So far, Congress has either rejected these changes outright or, locked in partisan combat, remained stalled on them.

They are Atkins conventions, stuffed with the red meat of partisan combat but stripped of the satisfying carbohydrates of fierce intraparty struggle.

Throughout, "The Right Man" betrays the rancor of partisan combat.

The only comfort for the American public is that unlike many of the war's problems, this one can be repaired, providing partisan combat is suspended in the Capitol.

'We Dare Not Wait Longer' Now, he said, apparently trying to prepare the public for fierce partisan combat in the weeks to come, time is running out.