[Pen-l] Obama , getting money to the working class pronto

[Charles Brown <cdb1003@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

   1; ________________________________
 Charles Brown wrote: 
There's a sort of ongoing bet
that there won't be any
pro-working class changes with
O.


I think (/agree) that's a losing bet. The question, to me, is only whether these changes will be significant. I am willing to believe that Obama will advance working class interests as much as he thinks he can -- the problem is that his idea of that limit is much lower than it really is. Another problem is his commitment to "bipartisanship" and such.


    --ravi

^^^^^^
CB: Yes, What indicates to you
that his idea of the limit is much
lowefr than it really is ?

It's hard not to start going into
a "rah-rah" list again, but I'm sort
of impressed by in only 40 days
passing the pay equity law, proposing
a budget that has the Wall Street crowd
really pissed off, coming out strong
for the EFCA,  and a few other things.
I don't like the bank bailouts, super
ug.   I guess I have my fingers crossed
that he's trying to let it go so far
that he's forced into something better".
But overall , the actions in this short
time don't make me think, as you do,
that he thinks the limit is much lower
than it really is. We're coming out of '
a 30 year period of an extreme right wing
swing by the American people. I can
see being cautious in moving them way
left in 40 days, thus the "bipartisanship" bit.
That didn't stop him from passing the stimulus
with almost no Rep. votes. At a certain point,
he can sort of say, well bipartisanship
 is a two way 
street. 

  What
he's done so far could be read as
signalling  a 
willingness to go a further left
if he gets support "from the bottom up".
Today there's a headline that he wants
to talk to the Taliban. I just don't see
how anybody could expect him to
expropriate the expropriators in 40 days
and 40 nights.
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