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Obama Still Wants To Spread The Wealth Like Butter
Gateway Pundit —
Mark Finkelstein at NewsBusters captured The One reaffirming his desire to spread the wealth in his interview with Tom Brokaw on Meet The Press:
I think the important principle, because sometimes when we start talking about taxes, and I say I want a more balanced tax code, people think, well, that's class warfare. No. It turns out that our economy grows best when the benefits of the economy are most widely spread. And that has been true historically. Here's the ...
Don't Squander The Chance
Newshoggers.com —
... I'm probably not going to like a lot of the Obama foreign policy but I was ready for that. The Pappy Bush realists will still be a lot better than the shrub Bush lunatics. My real concern is domestic policy and economics. With the economy in a shambles this is an opportunity to put Supply Side/trickle down economics in the ideological trash heap where it belongs along with laissez-faire capitalism. Now Obama is saying some of the right things but not with as much enthusiasm as I would like. ...
Progressive Breakfast: "Build Baby Build" Calls Grow Louder
LiberalOasis : The Blog —
... that neither the lame-duck President George W. Bush nor the president-elect has the clout to win a smooth congressional release of more bailout funds ... [Transition officials] made clear they would [not] lobby for approval of the funds. Their focus is on passing a separate, half-trillion dollar stimulus program that Mr. Obama said Sunday would be the largest infrastructure program since the Eisenhower administration's construction of the interstate highway system."
On NBC's Meet The Press, Obama again put economic recovery ahead of short-term budget balancing: ...
Obamises Watch: The Economy Will Now Get Worse
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... Flop - December 6, 2008:
MR. BROKAW: On this program about a year ago, you said that being a president is 90 percent circumstances and about 10 percent agenda. The circumstances now are, as you say, very unpopular in terms of the decisions that have to be made. Which are the most unpopular ones that the country’s going to have to deal with?
PRES.-ELECT OBAMA: Well, fortunately, as tough as times are right now–and things are going to get worse before they get better–there is a convergence between circumstances ...
POLITICS: Obamises Watch - The Economy
Baseball Crank —
... Flop - December 6, 2008:
MR. BROKAW: On this program about a year ago, you said that being a president is 90 percent circumstances and about 10 percent agenda. The circumstances now are, as you say, very unpopular in terms of the decisions that have to be made. Which are the most unpopular ones that the country's going to have to deal with?
PRES.-ELECT OBAMA: Well, fortunately, as tough as times are right now--and things are going to get worse before they get better--there is a convergence between circumstances and ...
Yes, He'll Be a Czar, But That Doesn't Mean He'll Be Running Things
Hit & Run —
... "We don't want government to run companies," President-elect Obama said on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday. "Generally, government historically hasn't done that very well." Still, the new car czar will have to dictate certain things to the people actually running the companies: ...
David Roberts: Progressivism Is Pragmatism: Steven Chu at Department of Energy
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... This is what I've been trying to get at as long as I've been writing about Obama: he understands, in a way many of his contemporaries still do not, that we're witnessing "a convergence between circumstances and agenda," as he put it on Meet the Press last week. When it comes to the climate crisis, the financial crisis, or the healthcare crisis, the facts demand bold action, and that means a bias toward "variability, initiative, innovation, departure from routine, experimentation," in pragmatist John Dewey's words. It means activist government. ...
The Obama Schmoozing of the Press and the Eventual Press War
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... Perhaps the Times should count its blessings. As of late, when Obama does speak, as he did on Dec. 7 on Meet the Press, Dec. 28 on ...
