The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.

Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.

A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.

I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership.

Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.

A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.

In politics you learn to always smile.

I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.