Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Hyper-Repetitive
Charles Krauthammer is way smarter than I am, and a hell of a lot more skilled as a debater. But, I'm telling you, I still wouldn't have minded confronting the guy last night. Yeah, folks, I'm referring to his appearance last night on the O'Reilly Factor when he ONCE AGAIN referred to Mr. Obama's first two years as "hyper-liberal".................................................................................................So, how, specifically, would I have approached the matter? Hm, probably by simply pointing out the following points. A) This Obamacare that Mr. Krauthammer has so routinely denigrated is essentially the same overall package that the Republicans themselves offered in 1993, that Mitt Romney delivered as Governor of Massachusetts, and that the bipartisan Bennett-Wyden bill spelled out several years ago. B) The President's stimulus package (which I'll readily admit here, was problematic) was approximately 40% tax-cuts - something that you'd think that the Republicans would have liked. C) The bailouts, which, yes, the President supported, were 1) a totally bipartisan thing and 2) seemingly effective (preventing a collapse of the banking system and most of it already having been paid back). D) Mr. Obama's troop surge in Afghanistan. E) His expansion of the drone attacks in Northern Pakistan. F) His continuation of many of the other Bush anti-terrorism policies; rendition, warrantless wire-tapping, indefinite detainment, etc.....................................................................................................And as far as Mr. Obama's decision to bail out the auto companies goes, yes, that was an extremely tough one. But, what was he supposed to do - let two of the biggest employers of the Midwest go out of business DURING THE MIDDLE OF A RECESSION? And, really, haven't these same auto companies also paid a large chunk of that money back? I, personally, give the President some credit here.................................................................................................Look, folks, I'm not saying here that Mr. Obama ISN'T a liberal. He is. I'm just saying that, for people like Krauthammer (who, unlike Beck and Hannity, SHOULD know better) to go around and exaggerate like this, the tenor isn't really helped AT ALL by it.
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...what was he supposed to do - let two of the biggest employers of the Midwest go out of business DURING THE MIDDLE OF A RECESSION?
Of course the republicans would have been screaming if he had let them fall. Even the Southern republican senators whose were easily being pushed by the foreign-owned car manufactures, who have factories in their states, to let the American companies die.
The Stimulus was by all accounts a success. The bank bailout has made the government money. If the government was smarter though it would hold on to bank stocks even longer and make more money.
If Citibank gets under 4.50 a share after being deluded by Uncle Sam selling the rest of his shares I'm buying. It's probably a good buy now.
Bankof America is strong again.
What the supposedly business savvy righties don't get is that our economy runs on borrowed money. Most businesses run on credit. They don't the money to meet payroll we got problems.
It irks me that I've had to explain this to right wingers on some of the financial sites I monitor.
You're right, double b, damned if he did, damned if he didn't. And, yes, I definitely see the same thing fomenting with this Egypt thing - certain people on the right ready to pounce no matter what.............My feelings on the stimulus package, Truth, are essentially this. Any time that you throw 862 billion into the equation, then, yeah, you're no doubt going to get some effect. The questions are a) is the effect purely a temporary one? and b) could the whole thing have been more efficiently structured? I don't know and I don't know. On your other points relative to TARP, I agree completely.
I am saying that President Obama isn't a Liberal. He ISN'T.
From your perspective/placement on the continuum, I can definitely see how you'd think that way.
What about your perspective/placement on the continuum? Don't you recgonize a fellow moderate when you see one? Oh, I get it... you're a moderate Independant, and to you any Democrat who isn't a blue dog is a Liberal.
That must be why Krauthammer thinks Obama is a "hyper liberal"... there are only two types of Democrats far as right-wingers are concerned... blue dogs and "hyper liberals".
From my perspective you're both incredibly & unbelievably wrong.
I can't be as "undeniably wrong" (even from your perspective) as Mr. Krauthammer. He said that Obama is a HYPER-liberal. I only said that he was a liberal (as in mainstream liberal) - one who's capable of being pragmatic.......Yes, wd, my perspective colors my opinions, too. That's why I said a long time ago that there aren't any absolute right or wrong answers here.
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