President Obama Kept Busy By Economy & More
From CNN:
President Obama took aim Thursday at conservative critics who claim that he is using the economic crisis to ram through an unrelated, expansive domestic agenda.
The president told a group of business leaders that although he is not interested in increasing government’s role in America, a sustained economic recovery will be impossible if the country fails to address long-term structural problems in its education, energy and health-care systems.
“I am doing so because they are fundamental to our economic growth and ensuring that we don’t have more crises like this in the future.”
From Fox News:
President Obama is considering whether to grant emergency requests for National Guard troops along the U.S.-Mexico border, as drug-related violence spirals out of control in the country’s southern neighbor.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday that Obama has received “specific requests” for troops along the border, and the president acknowledged to a group of reporters the day before that he was weighing the option.
“The president has committed to reviewing those requests,” Gibbs said. “I don’t know from (the Department of Homeland Security) of a timeline of a recommendation or a decision on that, but I know that he will certainly take their (request) under advisement.”
He warned, though, that “militarization of the border” will not resolve any problems, echoing the president’s statements on the issue.
From The Nation:
When New Orleans flooded in August 2005, the Democratic Party was a shambles, locked out of the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives. For nearly a decade the Democrats played defense against a Republican onslaught initiated by Newt Gingrich’s Contract With America. After September 11, Democrats had joined with Republicans in giving President Bush unprecedented executive authority, thereby helping to erode civil liberties at home and authorize ill-advised aggression overseas. In 2004 Democrats were keenly aware that a solid majority of Americans believed it was unpatriotic to protest the Iraq War. So instead of articulating a clear alternative to Bush’s militarism, they nominated John Kerry on the strength of his record as a solider. Even so, they found it impossible to outmaneuver the existing commander in chief.
In August 2005 the Democratic Party had no clear leader, no identifiable platform, no winning national coalition and little political courage.
Then the force of Hurricane Katrina devastated the inadequate levees surrounding New Orleans. Americans watched as the city flooded, the power went out, and food and water became scarce. They watched as emergency shelters became centers of disease, starvation, agony and death. The nation watched in horror, but no mass evacuation began and Air Force One did not land. As the crisis wore on, the public became increasingly confused by and angry about the lack of coordinated response to alleviate human suffering and evacuate trapped citizens. As the waters rose, President Bush’s approval sank.
One Response to “President Obama Kept Busy By Economy & More”
“fundamental to our economic growth”? Spending 5 times the borrowed money the incontinent Bushies did? What a putz.
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