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Posted by trainsarefun on Wed Jul 1 23:11:26 2009, in response to Re: Food for Thought For Liberals, posted by AMoreira81 on Wed Jul 1 22:57:33 2009. If you think this country is going to be THAT bad under ObamaOn foreign policy, I think that the President has been mediocre, like most of his predecessors. Nothing spectacular, nothing bloody awful. Foreign policy is where any President has the most power. On domestic policy, where his power is of course shared with Congress (you know, the opposite of Progress), I am starting to fear that he may turn out to be atrocious. I think of myself as a market liberal - government's job is to solve coordination problems, try to promote equal opportunity, and to provide conditions for the rising economic tide that will lift all boats. The prior regimes (President + Congress) were fairly inept at domestic policy, but the latest initiatives are just plain scaring me. The energy bill shows little chance of promoting the goal that it sets out to (significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions and reversing global warming), while suggesting a decent chance that the cost of living will accelerate. The healthcare legislation is vague in the extreme - it's a black box at this point. The bailouts and TARP 2.0, while not originally the brain child of this administration, have nonetheless been adopted, tend to sicken me. I find his choice of a Supreme Court Justice not unreasonable, but not exactly in the class of people that I was thinking of, etc. Overall then, for me, President Obama's tenure with the current Congress has been disappointing. |
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