James Fallows, while expressing increasing consternation over the ground Obama has ceded in deficit reduction talks, airs the views of a couple of Obama faithful. Here's one: And now he has taken the Republican stupid-assed, testosterone addled attempt to hold the debt ceiling hostage, and has judo-thrown them into forcing a discussion of the very problem that they've been purportedly complaining about. He is using their own two-faced complaints about the deficit...and presenting them with a very sound, very practical, very compromised, totally solid proposal to deal with the long-term structural deficit, which any Republican four years ago would have leapt at, and which contains the very broad-based sacrifices that he promised in his inaugural address...
On trusting Obama, revisited
On trusting Obama, revisited
On trusting Obama, revisited
James Fallows, while expressing increasing consternation over the ground Obama has ceded in deficit reduction talks, airs the views of a couple of Obama faithful. Here's one: And now he has taken the Republican stupid-assed, testosterone addled attempt to hold the debt ceiling hostage, and has judo-thrown them into forcing a discussion of the very problem that they've been purportedly complaining about. He is using their own two-faced complaints about the deficit...and presenting them with a very sound, very practical, very compromised, totally solid proposal to deal with the long-term structural deficit, which any Republican four years ago would have leapt at, and which contains the very broad-based sacrifices that he promised in his inaugural address...