Re: [Pen-l] Krugman critiques Obama stimulus plan

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 7, 2009, at 12:41 PM, Jim Devine wrote:

> ut aren't BHO's majorities in both houses significantly larger than
> Dubya's were at the start of his administration? Is BHO's relative
> wimpiness a result of the GOP's relative willingness to use the
> filibuster? Or is it a matter of his representing the corporate
> mainstream, while Dubya and the GOP are more hard-right in nature and
> therefore more willing to see Congressional politics as a form of war?

Like I just said, it makes sense as part of a strategy to peel of  
respectable Republicans and leave the loons outside gnashing their  
teeth - reinventing the Dems as a party of those within one standard  
deviation of the mean. The "left" of the Dems, who are about 1.5 SDs  
off center, will continue to vote Dem out of habit and naivete.

Doug
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