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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (87273)	12/27/2010 11:32:02 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

<< Return to Normalcy By ROSS DOUTHAT Over the past three years, American politics has been dominated by a liberal fantasy and a conservative freakout.>> That article was written by a right winger who writes for the right wing National Review. And a person totally unqualified to speak for the liberals. Liberals have a much different perspective. And it was easy to see his right wing leanings thinking the lame duck session was a fair deal for everyone, when in fact it was a travesty for the country piling on a trillion in debt to gain sub standard, to no stimulus. It was the same old tax cuts. And A trillion we could not afford. And a trillion we do need in a bullet stimulus package which we cannot get now. The right wing will say the tax cuts will prevent a double dip. The tax cuts for the rich do nothing but make us weaker and the rest will only help nominally. So it was not a deal so much as it was Obama capitulating to the right wing who was holding his unemployment and tax cuts for the middle class hostage . The Republican's were happy with that deal and the dems were not, what does that tell you? The right wing economists loved it and the left wing economists hated it. The Republicans cheered, while the Dems tried to put a good face on it. "perfect compromise'. Hell anyone could have made that deal with the Republcian's anytime. Obama did not trick the Republicans, they tricked him. They loved it. I know people saw the lame duck as compromise. I didn't. The Republicans gave up little, for very necessary programs e.g. unemployment insurance, Start treaty and DADT and those cuts are going to kill us down the road. What Douthat does not say in his article and another way to look at the whole last two years is this: Obama said he would do A, B, C and D. He seemed so sincere. And then he didn't even try to do them. Winning anything, through compromise was more important to him than fighting for better programs, it seems in every instance. Sometimes you have to fight and lose just to show you will fight. If you do that it puts people on notice that if they want to go against you they are going too have to risk a bloody nose. Any street kid will tell you that. The truth is, as one person said so eloquently, Obama campagned in poetry and governed in prose. He did not use the best economists which was soley his decision, he did not fight for the public option but traded it away right off the bat (and that is coming back to bite him in the ass with medical premiums sky rocketing), he did not fight to allow drugs from Canada and negotiated away lower drug costs with the drug companies rigth off the bat and in his last deal with O,Connell he sidestepped the house altogether. Douthat also acts like the last two years of gridlock was equally both parties fault. The right wing says the same thing about the bush years. They weren't and It wasn't, it was the right wings fault. The last two years the Republican's ideas weren't just wrong, but downright dangerous. Can't say that about the dems ideas.