Re: [Pen-l] "Has Barack Obama’s presidency already failed?"

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

Marvin Gandall writes:
> ... My sense, however, is that the
> libertarian Republican intellectuals and Palin's paleo base, are currently
> on the defensive. How can it be otherwise not be when the population is
> desperately turning to the government for support? A measure of this, IMO,
> is that the congressional Republicans almost certainly would have
> capitulated - Republican "principles" and the grumbling of the party's right
> wing be damned - if the Democrats had called their bluff and blamed them for
> holding up the "rescue" package in the event of a filibuster. But the
> anxious Obama administration is desperate not to take sole responsibility
> for failed economic recovery programs which might cost them dearly in 2010.
> Maybe it is coming round to seeing it has no choice. If there is no
> recovery, the Republican right and forces even farther to the right will be
> the beneficiaries.

That's true, but BHO's big-money supporters also lean against a more
aggressive approach. I'd guess that they are satisfied with having a
president who's more articulate, clearly more sane, etc. and who's in
favor of a woman's right to choose and more in favor of gay rights,
etc. than Dubya was. They likely won't be pushed to accept or lobby
for a more aggressive approach until the financial/economic crisis
gets worse or there are mass demonstrations in the streets or
something like that.

-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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