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Because the change that we need isn't a "change in tone." It's a change in focus and direction...and if they insist on pushing foolish tax breaks and pulling race cards, crushing the Republican Party may well be necessary.

So what is his plan? He may have let it slip in a recent interview, when he explained that a big reason he should be the Democratic nominee is that he could carry his party to a sweeping congressional victory that would provide a "mandate for change." "I mean, if we have a 50-plus-one election, we cannot get a serious health-care bill done. We can't have a serious agenda on climate change," he said.

That doesn't sound like a man who wants to work with Republicans toward a bipartisan era. It sounds like a man who wants to crush his opponents at the polls, and then bulldoze his agenda through an enfeebled opposition.

Change Agent?
Barack Obama and the burden of liberalism.
BY KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL
Friday, December 28, 2007 12:01 a.m.