Hold on hold on hold on. Caesar you said a mouthful. Bear with me a little:
 
Ok so let's say I agree with you that Obama strong-armed congress into passing a HALF-ASSED stimulus package. You will agree with me on the following:
 
1. Whether the stimulus package was half-assed or full-assed, it had to pass in both houses of congress right?
2. If the full-assed package could not be passed through congress, are you saying a half-assed package should not have been passed?
3. With the half-assed stimulus package, private-sector job creation has been positive since the bill's passing. Instead of a steady loss of private-sector jobs prior, America has been creating private-sector jobs. The stimulus was meant to stimulate the economy for that purpose. The engine of the American economy is private enterprise not government enterprise.
 
Caesar, President Obama was lucky to have the few Republicans who helped pass the half-assed stimulus package. Without it we would have continued the trend of Job-losses designed by the Republican Corporate interest who wanted to inure Obama's failure. If Obama insisted on the full-assed stimulus package but it didn't get passed what would the professional left have gained by that? And what is the full-assed stimulus package you guys keep dreaming about anyway??????????
The Economic Stimulus package is a request for a certain amount of public funds targeted in such a way that the private sector and government infrastructure expenditure will spur JOB GROWTH.
 
The stimulus package, half-assed or full-assed, has done its job. The Republican Corporate interest to inure Obama failure is still alive and fierce. The stimulus package was neither intended nor is able to address that. That is diablo's work. It can be turned on its head if the crybaby professional left got up, tied its bootstraps, and gets to work for America. I'm sick and tired of this tantrum-throwing, milk-vomiting, temperamentally itchy, clowning around Caesar. I'm dead serious. Who do you think Obama has helping him design policy???????????? Is it not the friggin professional left?????????????? Lemme know lemme know.
 
Haruna.
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Haruna wrote:

"You know some folk have been looking for work for over a year in vain???? If I were the professional left, I'd participate in the re-start of the American Economic Engine."

This is what "the professional left" was warning the president against, when he proposed a half ass stimulus package in a futile attempt to woo the wingnuts. He did not listen to the dirty lefties, after all they have nowhere to go. Well the stimulus was passed with grandiose statements that it will bring unemployment down to 8% by the summer. It didn't happen. The opposite trend continues to plague large portions of the population. Bold progressive leadership would have done Obama a lot of good. You and I have debated this issue on numerous occasions and the president hasn't done nothing since to change my perception that a lot of opportunities were squander in his quest for camaraderie with political opponents who made no secret of the fact that they want to see him fail. 

I am not raining on your parade, for I take no pleasure from taking issues with the president's leadership, been an "Obamabot" from the get go. But it is hard to defend him from a progressive point of view.
 
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Caesar,
 
I agree with you. 20 years of Rubinite or whatever -ite economic policies does have its consequences. Generally, the consequences of economic policy have a life span of 1/2 its regime from when you decide to change economic policy. We changed course when President Obama was inaugurated. We are 2 years into the new policies. We have 8 years to go for the new policies to see their full force. We are now at the first Crossroad of the new DYNAMIC economic policy.
 
So we can change policy managers at this crossroad fully aware of the attributes of all managers, we can sit on our hands and wait until we decide to resume the new policies (A dead Society for as long as we wait), or we can buckle-up and steer full steam ahead with Obama at the rudder.

Regarding the comment about the professional left, I wouldn't take that too personally. I've heard worse. It is just that, a comment. Whoever views him or herself as the professional left must now review whether to take umbrage at that comment and go into a self-induced comma, or to work toward a different more genteel comment.

Haruna. I love you Caesar but you appear to always want to get mad at something. BTW, I want to here thank you for your recent work on my behalf. I'm still waiting for a finale on the matter. Just lighten up men. You know some folk have been looking for work for over a year in vain???? If I were the professional left, I'd participate in the re-start of the American Economic Engine. So we can have a professionalite economic policy. Whaddoyou say Caesar???? And quit raining on my friggin parades will you??? You'd think we don't love each other. Jees!!!

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Twenty months of following Rubinite's advice on the economy has consequences you know. "the professional left" ... A pejorative used by this white house to paint it's ardent base may just sit this midterm out. 

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On Sep 25, 2010, at 9:55 AM, Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

your fellows on the same path. Haruna. Allez-y!!!
 
Your Weekly Address: Crossroads on the Economy
The President lays out the choice between his plan to keep our economy moving forward, and the agenda put out by Republicans in Congress taking us backward to the special interest economy that created this mess. Watch the video.
 West Wing Week

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