George Bush's Third Term - New York Times

I don't agree with all Thomas has written here, but I do agree that this Administration and this Congress had better stop dithering and get it's high priority issues on the agenda for real action. Here they are (energy crisis, the deficit, health care, climate change and Social Security.) as Friedman quotes another author:

"We are entering the era of hard choices for the United States - an era in which we can't always count on three Asian countries writing us checks to compensate for our failure to prepare for a hurricane or properly conduct a war," said David Rothkopf, author of "Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power."

Given that we can't do everything at once, Bush needs to collaboratively decide with other leaders in this country what issues have priority. The issues above will take at least one or two decades to resolve, if the crises wait that long.