Odds of moderation in a Democratic Washington are diminishing. The worst sign so far is that Henry Waxman's challenge to John Dingell's chairmanship of Energy and Commerce is going forward.
Obama does not appear determined to guide his ship to the center. Others have hands on the tiller. They pull left.
Join these tangible political developments with the very public nostalgia for disastrous New Deal policies (is anyone asking what tangible good the New Deal did to ameliorate the Great Depression?) and behind-the-scenes complaints from left-wing Dems about the appointment of Clinton-era veterans (seen as insufficiently liberal merely by virtue of their association with Dogpatch), and one has a prelude to political disaster.
SWNID tends toward buoyant optimism, but these moves make us dread an unnatural combination of FDR-like interventionism plus Carter-like incompetence.
4 comments:
"disastrous New Deal policies"
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
God, rightwingers really do you live in bizzaro world! The last 8 years of unadulterated conservative policies tramatize the nation, and it's the New Deal (social security, medicare, TVA, etc., etc.) that was "disasterous."
You do realize, of course, that when you pull the tiller to the left, it makes the boat go right.
Not trying to be metaphorical...just trying to protect your 'SW'
Anon # 1: the Great Depression went on for some eight years with unrelenting brutality, something never seen before or since in our Republic's economic history. Read Amity Shlaes and bury your silly notions of the New Deal. Maybe you think that rising union membership simultaneous with rising unemployment is a good outcome? You further discount the degree to which the policies that have led to the housing bubble are consequences of goosing the market to bring unqualified buyers to the table, hardly a "conservative" outcome. We urge an unromantic consideration of the economics of the 1930s and 1940s.
Anon #2: we hope you're right, say around 2010.
There's nothing more persuasive than all-caps laughter, multiple exclamation points, breaking the third commandment, and namecalling, is there?
Looking forward to more enlightened political discourse.
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