[Pen-l] Taming Hillary, propping up George (Osborne)

["Chris Burford" <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>From the perspectives that come over to us east of the Atlantic, Obama is 
making progress slowly with a quite different style of leadership to that of 
Bush. Whereas Bush had a business management model, Obama is creating 
integrated teams.

One of the challenges has to be to progress interest and the agenda enough 
to get Hillary on board but as someone accountable to a collective approach.

It is a style of whole social management, reminiscent of the approaches of 
New Labour in the UK. Thus, even though he probably does not want McCane in 
his cabinet, it is useful to have him as part of a debate about stopping 
torture, closing Guantanamo Bay, and revising migration policy.

This approach has a better chance of marginalising the dogmatic right of the 
Republican party and making it difficult for them to regroup for a couple 
more terms.

Meanwhile today, The Conservative Party has been so squeezed by the change 
of events that in order to rescue his upper class pal, George Osborne, David 
Cameron has had to come out today supporting the line of the anti-Keynesian 
right of the Conservative Party, saying it is essential to balance books, 
that at the next election the Conservative Party will not be able to match 
Labour promises on spending on education and schools, otherwise there will 
be bigger tax cuts later. So the class basis of this position becomes 
clearer. There is no acknowledgement that Brown will probably succeed, 
particularly when Obama is in power, in enhancing Keynesian credit 
facilities for the IMF to cover a multitude of needs and sins, including the 
relative decline in exchange value of the pound and the dollar.

The liberal democrats are totally on side with Brown and Darling that at the 
present there must be tax cuts that recognise the greater propensity of 
people on limited incomes to spend what they get.

Chris Burford


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colin Brace" <cb@xxxxxx>
To: <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Pen-l] My choices


|
|
| Louis Proyect wrote:
| >
| > The NY Times has an interactive feature that allows readers to enter the
| > names of people to serve in Obama's cabinet.
| >
| >
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/11/11/us/politics/20081111_CABINET_PICKER.html
| >
| > My choices:
| >
|
| While we are at it, let's give Rev Wright a job. How about Department of
| Education?
|
| Or better yet, a non-cabinet position: Press Secretary. That would make
for
| some lively press conferences.
|
| -----
|  Colin Brace
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