The Audacity of Nope
I have been patient. So too, I am afraid, are many people who awaited our new President’s progressive leadership. We’re still waiting.
Health care. During the campaign the President was a proponent of universal health care. Not anymore. The President offered no plan of his own, leaving it to that impotent debating society known also as Congress. The health care bill we’re about to get does nothing to reform health insurance, where the true change is needed.
The economy. Unemployment at 10%? Continued bailouts? Stimulus? Who stimulated what for whom? The same old crew who oversaw the economic collapse is still in charge. Wall Street rebounds while regular folks keep getting laid off. Again, instead of genuine economic reform, all the current leadership seems to be doing is looking to restore the status quo ante.
The war(s). Escalation in Afghanistan? Secret incursions into Pakistan (can you say Cambodia 1970?). And a Nobel Peace Prize?
Posted: December 11th, 2009 under Uncategorized.