Lending further support for James Poulos' compromise on abolishing the penny [stop producing the nickel and make the coin that today is the penny worth five cents], it's worth pointing out we might have another potential obstacle to its elimination soon. A hypothetical President Barack Obama, of course, will not want to eliminate a coin that bears Abe Lincoln's visage. The relevant West Wing script is here.
Of course, the nickel compromise just leaves us with a secondary deal that will have to be cut with Jim Webb and Mark Warner, but we'll cross that bridge when we get there.
