sorry for double post. second one is the official version.
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Max Sawicky <[email protected]> wrote: > I am convinced that this > decision offsets anything historically progressive that Obama may > accomplish -- if at all. > ******************************** > > I am 3/4's of the way there. LBJ did a lot of good on the domestic side, > even as he extended a disastrous foreign policy. Obama is way behind > the pace on the domestic front, thus far. > > Health care is going to suck, but that's a project. You have to pass > something, > then keep working at it. It will be revised as we go. If our > politics get worse, the > program will too. Financial regulation is going to come to naught, IMO. > That's already a lost cause. It was lost from the beginning. > > From my bunghole, US foreign policy sucks eggs, all the way around. > If we go on some deficit-reduction toot including "entitlement reform," > I am off the rez. > > All this 'why are you surprised' stuff is tedious. Nobody is surprised. > The possibility for Obama was an FDR-lite record. FDR looked awful > going in as well, and stayed awful for much longer than BHO has been > in office. > > An LBJ path is much more dubious, though still not out of the realm of > possibility. At best, going down this road will still have tragic > consequences. > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
