Obama’s lost opportunity
Flares in the Political Dark
Norman Solomon, Truthout: "The winter solstice of 2009 arrived as a grim metaphor for the current politics of health care, war, and a lot more. 'In a dark time,' wrote the poet Theodore Roethke, 'the eye begins to see.' After a year of escalation in Afghanistan, solicitude toward Wall Street and the incredible shrinking health care reform, we ought to be able to see that the biggest problem among progressives has been undue deference to the Obama administration."
http://www.truthout.org/1223095
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Obama’s lost opportunity
Heartland Institute
by Greg Scandlen
12/30/09
With President Barack Obama and the Congressional Democrats twisting themselves like pretzels to get something — anything — passed on health reform with no Republican support, it’s instructive to review what might have been. During the campaign Obama promised to work in a bipartisan fashion to solve problems. He told one interviewer, ‘I have always been able to work together with Republicans to find compromise and to find common ground.’ If he had stuck with that in health care we might be telling a very different story today...
http://tinyurl.com/yfh5rqf
Back from the brink
The Weekly Standard
by Irwin M. Stelzer
12/30/09
For years, perhaps decades to come, Americans will be whittling away at the mountain of debt the Obama administration has built, in part to apply Maynard Keynes’s nostrums to the sagging economy, in greater part permanently to expand the size and role of government. On the day before Christmas, immediately after its dawn vote to pass the health care bill, when few were watching, the Senate joined the House in raising the debt ceiling so that the administration could borrow enough money — $290 billion — to keep the government running, but only for a few months, so great is the amount of red ink pouring onto the federal books. Congress is also preparing a second stimulus bill — it will have a different name — and instead of using the money flowing in from the banks to repay the government’s bail-outs to reduce the deficit, the president and Congress are converting it to a slush fund to be spent on a variety of new programs. Throw in the fact that no one believes the health care bill will not add to the deficit, and Americans will remember 2009 as the year they loaded huge burdens on their children and grandchildren...
http://tinyurl.com/ydo3eor
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=what+change
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=stimulus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bailout
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=deficit
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bipartisan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=healthcare
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wall+Street
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Keynes
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Norman+Solomon
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Greg+Scandlen
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Irwin+M.+Stelzer
Norman Solomon, Truthout: "The winter solstice of 2009 arrived as a grim metaphor for the current politics of health care, war, and a lot more. 'In a dark time,' wrote the poet Theodore Roethke, 'the eye begins to see.' After a year of escalation in Afghanistan, solicitude toward Wall Street and the incredible shrinking health care reform, we ought to be able to see that the biggest problem among progressives has been undue deference to the Obama administration."
http://www.truthout.org/1223095
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Obama’s lost opportunity
Heartland Institute
by Greg Scandlen
12/30/09
With President Barack Obama and the Congressional Democrats twisting themselves like pretzels to get something — anything — passed on health reform with no Republican support, it’s instructive to review what might have been. During the campaign Obama promised to work in a bipartisan fashion to solve problems. He told one interviewer, ‘I have always been able to work together with Republicans to find compromise and to find common ground.’ If he had stuck with that in health care we might be telling a very different story today...
http://tinyurl.com/yfh5rqf
Back from the brink
The Weekly Standard
by Irwin M. Stelzer
12/30/09
For years, perhaps decades to come, Americans will be whittling away at the mountain of debt the Obama administration has built, in part to apply Maynard Keynes’s nostrums to the sagging economy, in greater part permanently to expand the size and role of government. On the day before Christmas, immediately after its dawn vote to pass the health care bill, when few were watching, the Senate joined the House in raising the debt ceiling so that the administration could borrow enough money — $290 billion — to keep the government running, but only for a few months, so great is the amount of red ink pouring onto the federal books. Congress is also preparing a second stimulus bill — it will have a different name — and instead of using the money flowing in from the banks to repay the government’s bail-outs to reduce the deficit, the president and Congress are converting it to a slush fund to be spent on a variety of new programs. Throw in the fact that no one believes the health care bill will not add to the deficit, and Americans will remember 2009 as the year they loaded huge burdens on their children and grandchildren...
http://tinyurl.com/ydo3eor
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=what+change
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=stimulus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bailout
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=deficit
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bipartisan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=healthcare
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wall+Street
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Keynes
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Norman+Solomon
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Greg+Scandlen
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Irwin+M.+Stelzer
rudkla - 23. Dez, 22:11
