One and Done?
By MAUREEN DOWD
NYT
WASHINGTON
ONE day during the 2008 campaign, as Barack Obama read the foreboding news of the mounting economic and military catastrophes that W. was bequeathing his successor, he dryly remarked to aides: “Maybe I should throw the game.”
On the razor’s edge of another recession; blocked at every turn by Republicans determined to slice him up at any cost; starting an unexpectedly daunting re-election bid; and puzzling over how to make a prime-time speech about infrastructure and payroll taxes soar, maybe President Obama is wishing that he had thrown the game.
The leader who was once a luminescent, inspirational force is now just a guy in a really bad spot.
His Republican rivals for 2012 have gone to town on the Labor Day weekend news of zero job growth, using the same line of attack Hillary used in 2008: Enough with the big speeches! What about some action?
(More here.)
NYT
WASHINGTON
ONE day during the 2008 campaign, as Barack Obama read the foreboding news of the mounting economic and military catastrophes that W. was bequeathing his successor, he dryly remarked to aides: “Maybe I should throw the game.”
On the razor’s edge of another recession; blocked at every turn by Republicans determined to slice him up at any cost; starting an unexpectedly daunting re-election bid; and puzzling over how to make a prime-time speech about infrastructure and payroll taxes soar, maybe President Obama is wishing that he had thrown the game.
The leader who was once a luminescent, inspirational force is now just a guy in a really bad spot.
His Republican rivals for 2012 have gone to town on the Labor Day weekend news of zero job growth, using the same line of attack Hillary used in 2008: Enough with the big speeches! What about some action?
(More here.)
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1 Comments:
I thought the Democrats controlled the US government for well over a year after Obama was elected and with a bullet-proof majority that relegated the Republicans to mere bystanders. And yet, the 'recalcitrant' and 'transigient' Republicans post-2010 are the latest hurdle to the wonderment that is Obama?
I suppose Obama's sheer incompetence and the Reid/Pelosi four years and dereliction of debt has nothing to do with the situation we're in.
Must be nice to live in Maureen Dowd's bubble. When the Democrats are in a bullet-proof majority, it's the Republicans fault?
Only the uninformed or the kool-aid drinkers believe this crap. The rest of us who have lived three years under yet another failed Keynesian experiment know better.
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