New Yorker: The budget released this week by the White House is by far Obama`s most ambitious statement of his legislative priorities since 2009, when, as a newly elected President, he produced a plan brimming over with initiatives like Obamacare, education reform, new spending to aid the depressed economy, and a cap-and-trade régime to curb carbon pollution. Obama`s 2009 budget presaged two years in office that were so legislatively far-reaching that, in Washington policy circles, the document was sometimes...