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Misreading The Mandate
Blue Crab Boulevard — ... Jay Cost at Real Clear Politics : Bismarck once commented that politics is the art of the possible. So far, the White House has not exhibited a good understanding of exactly what is possible in this political climate. It has been acting as though the President’s election was a major change in the ideological orientation of the country. A lot of liberals certainly saw it as such. All the strained comparisons of Obama to Franklin Roosevelt were a tipoff that many were talking themselves into the idea that the 2008 election created an opportunity for a substantial, leftward shift ...

JAY COST: Obama misread his mandate….
Instapundit — JAY COST: Obama misread his mandate.

OBAMA DIDN'T "MISREAD HIS MANDATE"; HE MISLEAD THE ELECTORATE
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — ... August 17, 2009 JAY COST: Obama misread his mandate. Posted at by Glenn Reynolds at 7:46 am ...

Memo to Jay Cost: Obama Won a Larger Percentage of the Popular Vote in 2008 than Reagan in 1980
Firedoglake — ... Jay Cost argues that Obama "misread his mandate" and overreached by endorsing the public plan. Not only does Cost fail to note that ...

Holding Firm on the Public Option
Comments from Left Field — ... signaling that it’s ready to cave on the public option. Because there is so much progblog analysis, and because there are so many distinct issues involved with this legislation, I’ve decided to organize the progblog analysis by the talking points. First, it’s important to be clear about why the public option has become this huge lightning rod. If you think it’s because the American people ‘don’t want government-run healthcare,’ no ...

Holding Firm on the Public Option
The Moderate Voice — ... about the White House’s signaling that it’s ready to cave on the public option. Because there is so much progblog analysis, and because there are so many distinct issues involved with this legislation, I’ve decided to organize the progblog analysis by the talking points. First, it’s important to be clear about why the public option has become this huge lightning rod. If you think it’s because the American people ‘don’t want government-run healthcare,’ no gold star for ...

Happy Hour Links
Weekly Standard Blog — The Hillary Doctrine -- give them liberty or give them public housing: "I also think that it's important to look at human rights more broadly than it has been defined. Human rights are also the right to a good job and shelter over your head and a chance to send your kids to school and get health care when your wife is pregnant. It's a much broader agenda. Too often it has gotten narrowed to our detriment." Jay Cost: Obama misread his mandate. Andrew Breitbart on the politics of personal destruction. Only 18 percent of ...

Grand Unified Obama Critique
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right — ... that kind of trust. Partly it’s a matter of style — as many people have noted, he has been weirdly reluctant to make the moral case for universal care, weirdly unable to show passion on the issue, weirdly diffident even about the blatant lies from the right. Partly it’s a spillover from his other policies: by appointing an economic team that’s Rubin redux, by taking such a kindly attitude to the banks, he has squandered a lot of progressive enthusiasm....or is it Jay Cost? For whatever reason, the Obama administration has acted as if those ...

Obama Misread His Mandate
The New Editor — Jay Cost: After a rough week for health care reform, Democratic leaders appear to be pulling back on their demand for a public option. It remains to be seen whether liberal Democrats, especially in the House where they are more numerous, will go along with this. But this is still a step in the right direction to get something passed this year. The public option was an overreach. The White House's erroneous belief that it could get it through the legislature - or at least that it could let four out of five congressional committees push it - was a ...

OBAMA DUPED THE MODERATES IN 2008
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — ... only 48 percent felt that way. Even amid the worst recession in decades, most have not changed their minds. Today, more than half say the president's policies go too far in expanding the federal government, and his popularity has declined as a result.(VIA DINOCRAT.) THE BRILLIANT JAY COST ALSO GOT THE ESSENTIAL NATURE OF OBAMA'S CURRENT POLL STANDING WRONG. LIKE CHAPMAN, COST BLAMED A "MISREADING" - CHAPMAN ARGUES MODERATES MISREAD OBAMA; COST ARGUED THAT OBAMA MISREAD THE ELECTION. BOTH ARE WRONG. (AND I POSTED COST WAS WRONG ...