Posted on 12/27/2009 10:16:32 AM PST by FromLori
Barack Obama was never the progressive ideologue many of his supporters hoped he'd be. He ran as a fairly centrist, cautious candidate, and that's how he's governed.
Though to his credit, he's been office for less than a year, and he's already decided to blow most of his political capital on a party-line vote to reform healthcare, something his predecessor George W. Bush never dared to try with, say, Social Security.
But because healthcare doesn't include a public option, thus leaving the for-profit insurers to make a fortune on the great insuring of America, and because Wall Street reform seems to have faded into memory, and because Obama's Afghanistan strategy is the same as the last guy's, a growing faction of the left is seriously angry at the President.
Nowhere is this more evident than at the popular "netroots" site Firedoglake, which has taken to teaming up with Grover Norquist (of all people) to attack The White House.
Site contributor Gordon Ginsburg writes:
When he confronted a world-wide economic collapse not of his making last winter, BHO and his team facilitated the deployment of bailout packages to industries and financial institutions judged "too big to fail." These bailouts supplemented the TARP monies being disbursed to big banks that had been initiated by his predecessor. Though some market economists decreed that these "too big to fail" enterprises should have been allowed to do just that, the President wisely decided to immediately stop the bleeding in order to avoid catastrophic consequences down the economic
As banks and markets stabilized, attention turned to getting the consumer economy back on track, with arguments more or less boiling down to laissez faire versus massive government intervention. BHO’s decision to embrace modest stimulus enraged libertarians and conservatives who wanted to let the Free Market reign
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
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Joe Weisenthal must be looking at this from really, really far to the left?
“He ran as a fairly centrist, cautious candidate, and that’s how he’s governed.”
BULL$HIT
That being the case, Mussolini would be made proud if the real Obama comes out politically.
Did the writer of this article come of age 12 months ago?
What kind of bullcrap is this??? 0bama is a total ‘RAT.
I am sure all these people are pissed off too....
but it was in their plan....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJzU056ccV4&NR=1
Maybe this isn't so suprising. Norquist is...complicated.
Since when is being ‘present’ governing?
I would say he is one of the biggest leftists at the site having read it for a while now. Most of them are at the economics blogs and sites but they do have a few like carney who isn’t and a couple others at that site but for the most part pretty much all todays economists are liberals.
What wacko alternative reality is this guy living in. There is nothing even remotely "Centrist" about 0.
It’s from ‘03; any update that you know of?
Wow eye opening thank you!
Thanks.
PROPAGANDA ALERT
Wow this is how it felt in USSR
Joe is in outer space. He must be on the Planet Utopio.
Yeah, I mean it’s not like he set out to socialize one sixth of the economy or anything.
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