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Krugman:He Wasn’t The One We’ve Been Waiting For

hypocritexposer

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Liberals are starting to notice that it was all sizzle, no steak.

January 20, 2010, 7:18 pm
He Wasn’t The One We’ve Been Waiting For

Health care reform — which is crucial for millions of Americans — hangs in the balance. Progressives are desperately in need of leadership; more specifically, House Democrats need to be told to pass the Senate bill, which isn’t what they wanted but is vastly better than nothing. And what we get from the great progressive hope, the man who was offering hope and change, is this:

I would advise that we try to move quickly to coalesce around those elements of the package that people agree on. We know that we need insurance reform, that the health insurance companies are taking advantage of people. We know that we have to have some form of cost containment because if we don’t, then our budgets are going to blow up and we know that small businesses are going to need help so that they can provide health insurance to their families. Those are the core, some of the core elements of, to this bill. Now I think there’s some things in there that people don’t like and legitimately don’t like.

In short, “Run away, run away”!

Maybe House Democrats can pull this out, even with a gaping hole in White House leadership. Barney Frank seems to have thought better of his initial defeatism. But I have to say, I’m pretty close to giving up on Mr. Obama, who seems determined to confirm every doubt I and others ever had about whether he was ready to fight for what his supporters believed in.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/he-wasnt-the-one-weve-been-waiting-for/?pagemode=print
 

hypocritexposer

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The brow has to be seriously raised when uber-liberal journalist, Michael Hirsch, adds his own scathing damnation in Newsweek.”

Someone must have misinformed Barack Obama when he ran for president that the U.S. Constitution allotted him only a one-year term, rather than four years. Otherwise it’s difficult to understand why, faced with solving a Depression-size economic crisis, two wars, and global warming to boot, he felt that he also had to grab hold of the third-rail issue of health care during his inaugural year.

It’s been a disaster, of course, and may go down as one of the biggest political miscalculations in modern history. For the American public—haunted by too many rounds of layoffs, appalled by Wall Street’s government-aided Grand Heist, aghast at the size of federal spending that never seems to find its way into their pockets—health care was simply an intervention too far. Cue the tea partiers—and one freshly minted senator and future Republican rock star, Scott Brown. Lay poor Teddy Kennedy to rest all over again.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/231674
 

Steve

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It’s been a disaster, of course, and may go down as one of the biggest political miscalculations in modern history.

no I still think the Carter Grain embargo, gas shortage handling was the biggest political miscalculations in modern history,.. but Obama is moving down as one of the worst presidents ever quickly.. he does rank up there with the tax increase before the great depression in stupid moves...

sadly we see the same moves being made again today in the name of progressives..

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/GreatDepression.html
 
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