Obama's week to RemembEr

Princeton historian Julian Zelizer notes: "I don't know if it will be lasting in terms of getting things done; each is a particular situation. The case against ACA was shaky and this was the court taking what many will look at as a reasonable approach to legislative intent. The trade deal was not so much a political victory for the Democrats as the president working with the Republican majority on an issue that most of his own party opposed. With race, given the difficulty of seeing any concrete policy changes to come out of the shooting--which the president would consider more important than the removal of the [Confederate] flags [that some Southern states are considering]--I'm not sure how much racial progress he feels. So overall, there are some victories, one in protecting a program, the other in winning a policy despite the long-term political costs."