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The decision to focus on health care was the president's own. It could have been even worse. Some staffers advised him—this was just after the American economy lost almost 600,000 jobs in one month—that he should focus on global warming.(Emphases mine. -Cav) Mr. Suskind's book is controversial, and some of his sources have accused him of misquoting them. The White House says Mr. Suskind talked to too many disgruntled former staffers. But he seems to have talked to a lot of gruntled ones, too. The overarching portrait of chaos, lack of intellectual depth and absence of political wisdom, from a Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter at this paper, rings true.
I know you have a short memory but most people know one of Obama's first acts in office was the stimulus bill that passed long before the health care bill did.
So your point is sort of stupid that he wasn't focused on jobs/economy before healthcare.
I know you have a short memory but most people know one of Obama's first acts in office was the stimulus bill that passed long before the health care bill did.
So your point is sort of stupid that he wasn't focused on jobs/economy before healthcare.
All the 'stimulus bill' did was pour money down a hole. But, as the pull quote relates, some of his advisers wanted him to jump on global warming first thing. That is aggressively stupid.
We don't have to read the book to know that this President is an amateur. Real leaders don't need to go out and whine ad blame..they step up and take the challenge and find solutions. This job is for people who want to find solutions, not play games. Even now he is on TV campaigning, where is the leadership?
I know you have a short memory but most people know one of Obama's first acts in office was the stimulus bill that passed long before the health care bill did.
So your point is sort of stupid that he wasn't focused on jobs/economy before healthcare.
Stimulus - Feb 09
Health Care Bill -Mar 10
Baloney. The first "stimulus" was a payoff to the idiots who put Barack Hussein in office.
I know you have a short memory but most people know one of Obama's first acts in office was the stimulus bill that passed long before the health care bill did.
So your point is sort of stupid that he wasn't focused on jobs/economy before healthcare.
Stimulus - Feb 09
Health Care Bill -
Did the OP try to make that point? I don't see it.
I do know that his "stimulus" didn't stimulate, as shovel ready jobs weren't "as shovel ready as we thought" and the unemployment rate shot right past the 8% level he promised wouldn't happen.
All the 'stimulus bill' did was pour money down a hole. But, as the pull quote relates, some of his advisers wanted him to jump on global warming first thing. That is aggressively stupid.
It wasn't a good bill....very true.
Obama listened to the likes of you and other right wing cultists and made it too small and too loaded with tax cuts rather than infrastructure spending.
He sabotaged is own bill by trying to woo right wing radicals....
And really it was wise of Obama not to focus on global warming - that would have been a disaster for the country.
I agree with the sentiment expressed at the end of the article - the next election is the Republicans' to lose and they seem hell bent on throwing at again the same way they did in 2008.
Let's face it, no one expected Obama to become the next POTUS in 2007. Would YOU have wagered against Hillary? I bet he was as surprised as anyone else when he got the Democratic nomination. And once the Republicans offered up a non-electable ticket, the question of who to vote for, well it wasn't even a question: there was only one option.
We voted for an inexperienced President about for the same reasons we voted for Carter. The guy is doing his best to lead the country out of so many messes it's hard to know where to start, and instead of buckling down to see what can be done to improve things, most people and entities are out to see what advantage they can gain from the situation.
I don't think things will get better as long as the political dialogue is characterized by something I'd expect from the Jerry Springer show.
We don't have to read the book to know that this President is an amateur. Real leaders don't need to go out and whine ad blame..they step up and take the challenge and find solutions. This job is for people who want to find solutions, not play games. Even now he is on TV campaigning, where is the leadership?
Exactly what I've been saying. Where is the leadership? You don't try and make deals with right wing cultists.
Obama listened to the likes of you and other right wing cultists and made it too small and too loaded with tax cuts rather than infrastructure spending.
He sabotaged is own bill by trying to woo right wing radicals....
what an idiot.
Bingo. The stimulus bill of 2009 was a stop gap intended to stop the hemorrhaging inflicted in the previous eight years and to stop the bleed out of the economic collapse. In Q4 2008 the economy contracted 8.9%. -8.9%!!!! In Q1, where the stimulus bill was released in Feb '09 the economy was still contracting at a rate of -6.7%. -6.7%!!!
In Q2 of '09 the economy got it's leg's out from under itself and bounced back to a manageable -.7%, and has been in a positive track since.
If not for the '09 bill things could have been much worse. And even w/ all of his self-defeating attempts the bill was just big enough to barely put the country back on a neutral to precarious positive footing. The money went to the wrong things and to the wrong people. But it was meant to stop the bleeding. We're still in ICU and if the Republican's and tea party get their way, they'll pull the plug to plunge and destroy the country as they tried to do in the previous eight years.
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