The first column posted at HuffPo includes these pointed observations:

If the health-care deal that emerges benefits the health care industry more than it does ordinary Americans, Obama is likely to argue that the agreement was by necessity a compromise. But keep in mind that Obama went into the entire debate having taken a fairly dramatic compromise position to start with. The most effective way to achieve universal coverage and bring down health care costs – Obama’s two ostensible holy grails — is, of course, a single-payer system. But Obama unilaterally ruled out creating an actual government-run health-care system – rather than a mythological one — on pragmatic political grounds, before the public debate even began.

Does Obama have the ability to stand up to corporate interests? There’s scant evidence of that so far. Indeed, most notably in the course of the financial industry bailout, he deferred to them quite spectacularly. And it’s not just corporate interests, either. There’s something about the military/national security complex that seems to set Obama back on his heels on such issues as dealing with Guantanamo detainees, coming clean about the Bush administration’s torture legacy or "Don’t Ask Don’t Tell."

It’s a great start right out of the gate. He has a higher profile as well. And he’ll be managing editor for a team of Washington journalists with integrity and self-respect so rare in that town.