Re: Michael Pollak's Pebble Theory

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Perelman wrote:

> Certainly the Iraq debacle and the weak economy should have given them
> backbone earlier.

But it didn't turn into a "debacle," by bourgeois standards, until
rather recently. It was only when it did, and when Bush started
stepping on some important toes (e.g., those in Langley) that things
started turning. Also, the economic problem could be dismissed as
just a slow recovery. The longer the labor market has refused to
recover, the worse the political atmosphere.

And it's taken about 2 years for 9/11 to wear off. It's not really
all that surprising.

Doug