It is very interesting to watch how this crisis reveals and highlights character: the sniveling privileged Wall Street upper-crust, the semi-hysterical, uninformed punditocracy, the puerile Republican opposition - and Obama, cool as a cucumber, playing his game, five steps ahead, setting up moves that won't come to fruition for months or years, while his opposition flails at the thin air where he used to be. I love it.My take? I think the stimulus bill is nowhere near perfect, but I understand that everything possible needs to be done to rescue our economy.
It's the future that is calling Obama, not the present.
The Republican reaction to this stimulus package is on a par with McCain suspending his campaign during the primary to "handle" the economic crisis back in Washington. Completely clueless, cynical empty gestures. They think we'll forget. They're wrong. What Karl Rove wanted, and was willing to steal by any means necessary, Obama will get, handed to him as a free gift by the American people: real political power, the power to transform society for a generation or more.
LIke the writer above, I also understand that Mr. Obama tends to work several steps ahead, seeing things coming down the road well before we do. And right now, I trust him completely to lead us out of this mess. The Republicans? They got us into this shit pile, so why would anyone in their right mind trust them?
