This has been a tough week for the hopeful ones who believed President Obama's vow to break with the old politics. Every day, it seems, the president caved in to another Democratic interest group working against the public weal.

Let's start with the mayors' conference just ended in Providence, R.I. One hundred Obama administration officials canceled their plans to attend, rather than cross a firefighters' picket line set up to embarrass the host, Providence Mayor David Cicilline. The m ...

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