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ABC's George Stephanopoulos and CBS' Wyatt Andrews both reflected on the policy choices facing Barack Obama's incoming administration. Stephanopoulos was skeptical that the lame duck Congress would pass a major stimulus package before Inauguration Day. "A simple extension of unemployment benefits," he suggested, but no infrastructure spending nor aid to state and local governments. Andrews pointed out that Obama had committed to a quartet of "top-to-bottom very expensive reforms" besides the stimulus package, in the face of massive federal deficits. He ticked off renewable energy, universal healthcare, education funding and revision of the tax code to lessen the burden on the middle class. "All of his loyalists on Capitol Hill believe their reform issues should come first," Andrews generalized. "Whenever he decides his priorities, one of his greatest challenges will not be managing Republicans. It will be fending off demands from Democrats."
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