Listen up President Obama! (Congress, polls, health care, economy)

[buzzpost]

FT.com / US / Politics & Foreign policy - White House nightmare persists

“It now looks extremely difficult, if not impossible, to get anything resembling a broad healthcare bill out of Congress,” said Scott Lilley, a senior fellow at the liberal Centre for American Progress, the think-tank that is closest to the White House. “In his State of the Union, Obama has to slim down his ambitions. It should be short and simple and focus on jobs.”

Yes, JOBS Mr. President. And I wish you success in creating these jobs. I will applaud you if you would simply focus on the things that the majority of Americans want and need instead of passing some kind of agenda from people that you surround yourself with. Most people still like you personally, but your policies are not so popular.

Worse, most people do not think Mr Obama can even command unity within his own administration on the Wall Street proposals amid growing speculation about whether Tim Geithner, the Treasury secretary, can survive in his job.

Geithner needs to GO, and go NOW!

In fact, exit polls from Mr Obama’s election showed that almost two-thirds of the voters cited the economy as their chief concern, with fewer than one in 10 mentioning healthcare. Mr Emanuel is also perceived to have mishandled the day-to-day logistics of getting healthcare through Congress.

BTW, why did he ignore this? It's my opinion that he surrounded himself with self-serving idealists that didn't really care about the President, but merely getting their agendas passed. In short, he was stabbed in the back (not that I believe he wasn't for these agendas to begin with, but at the risk of his political capital, no).

In short, Mr Obama’s nightmare January could easily slip into a nightmare February. “Unless and until the president changes the way his White House, works, things are going to continue to go badly for him,” says the head of a Democratic think-tank. “Heads still have to roll.”

And ROLL they will, IMO.

[KevK]

Originally Posted by buzzpost

FT.com / US / Politics & Foreign policy - White House nightmare persists

Yes, JOBS Mr. President. And I wish you success in creating these jobs. I will applaud you if you would simply focus on the things that the majority of Americans want and need instead of passing some kind of agenda from people that you surround yourself with. Most people still like you personally, but your policies are not so popular.

Geithner needs to GO, and go NOW!

BTW, why did he ignore this? It's my opinion that he surrounded himself with self-serving idealists that didn't really care about the President, but merely getting their agendas passed. In short, he was stabbed in the back (not that I believe he wasn't for these agendas to begin with, but at the risk of his political capital, no).

And ROLL they will, IMO.

This argument about the economy vs health care is phony. Do people really think that we cannot do more than one thing at a time? The economy is recovering by every measure and jobs- which are a lagging indicator- will soon recover as well.