Obama is caught between the need to act quickly, and the growing perception that he is going too fast, and caving to the far left.
For the moment, I simply see it as we are all getting too much exposed to the legislative making process, hyped by deliberately misleading stuff. So I'm trying to step back until there are clearer outlines as to the issues. Perhaps that will be when there are specific proposals being voted on in the House and Senate.
As for the speed, I'm generally a "get things right rather than fast" sort, but I understand the politics of this to mean it needs to get done this year or it will most likely not get done for a great while, if ever.
Finally, on the caving to the far left, I certainly sit, on most issues, to what one would consider as the left of Obama and I don't see "caving." Looks to me more like back and forth. The Reps have refused to be a part of it, so they have no "right" to insist on bipartisanship. So the conversation, to my mind, is within the Dem party.
We're looking, from my point of view, at the advantages/disadvantages of the Schumer/Emmanuel big tent strategy. Means that the "sausage making" metaphor might be too weak. Something worse. |
