Inside the Beltway, reporters and political players have been consumed with trying to gauge the prospects for Obama's second-term agenda in light of his defeat in the fight over a bipartisan bill to enhance background checks of would-be gun buyers. Can he twist arms? Can he cut deals? Is Congress immune to his charms and his threats?
On Monday,was that the president lacks an appetite for ruthless politics that instills fear in lawmakers. Exhibit A, the Times said: Democratic Sen. Mark Begich of Alaska asked Obama to send newly minted Interior Secretary Sally Jewell to his home state . Begich voted against the gun bill, but Jewell is still going. The rebellious senator still gets what he wants .
Case closed? Not so much. A closer look at Jewells trip also teaches a very different lesson, providing evidence of a president cutting deals with recalcitrant lawmakers to get what he wants. And then keeping his end of the bargain.
Did Begich press for Jewell's trip? . But the real reason for her visitand the reason Obama agreed to give the road project a second look despite(and the )was a deal last month between the administration and Alaska's Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
Murkowski unless the Interior Department reconsidered. The administration, eager to see the former REI executive confirmed, relented.of the arrangementand in a statement released on the same day as Begich's letter.
Sally Jewell will have the privilege of going to King Cove and I will be right there with her. We'll have to find a time when the weather is best suited for travelwe may have to fly into Cold Bay and walk to King Cove, Murkowski said in the statement.
Murkowskion April 10. She got what she wanted; the administration got what it wanted. If there was arm-twisting, the administration . But the road's not built yet, Jewell is Interior secretary, and reports of the death of Obama's ability to work with Congress appear to have been greatly exaggerated.
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