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If you want to lay blame for this week’s Democratic losses, you can point to the president’s collusion with now-outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Focusing on the task at hand is essential, but limiting. Every decision is linked to what came before and what likely will follow. There are no starting or ending points.

National Republicans lost badly because they haven’t lost well. Instead of reflecting on their party’s deficiencies after the 2008 drubbing, they treated our president as a fluke, then a fraud, then a patsy. America didn’t like it.

If President Obama wants his next term to differ from his last, he should heed Kitzhaber’s lesson: deign and reign are four-fifths the same.

Thirty-one years ago today, our national consciousness took a significant turn that has tangible consequences today. It was on this day that the Too Much Information Age began.

Within a decade, let’s reduce the American work week to 32 hours, and bring millions back into the work force. The president’s political opponents want smaller government. Can they campaign against three-day weekends?

We knew the Tea Partiers were extremists and ideologues, but we learned something new when drool stains pooled beneath some of them as calamity loomed.

Presidential candidates focus now on “swing states.” That term barely existed 25 years ago. Campaigns have consequences. The president has fewer friends and favors he can call on in those uncontested red states.

It must be great to be an auspice. You’re never alone and everything is always under you.