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Since I normally link to Peter Wehner only to disagree with him, I’d like to express my full agreement with this post of his. (Though I suspect we’d probably disagree about the Bush administration’s culpability in some of these problems.)
Jonathan Alter had issued a challenge to Obama’s critics to prove he is a bad president. Wehner more than answered the challenge, while probably being too nice.
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Cuffs| 8.26.11 @ 2:25PM
What looks like failure is actually success.
What makes people think he has failed?
He has caused more destruction in 2+ years
than any president in history. This is why
he will not change course. Too much of his
agenda has already been accomplished. Four
more years and America as we know it will
be gone. The Long March will be over.
Occam's Tool| 8.26.11 @ 2:44PM
However, if we assume he's actually a traitor, then his record is one of stunning success.
Al Adab| 8.26.11 @ 3:03PM
"Treason doth never prosper, for when it prospers, none dare call it treason."
Bob Grant| 8.26.11 @ 5:51PM
What happens when the full effects of his presidency weigh down on the country?
Obamacare...TARP bailouts of automobile manufacturers and the student loan industry...Frank/Dodd Financial Reform bill...encouragement of Arab Spring revolution...etc.
What hasn't been fully discussed is what he failed to do immediately after inauguration?
Seriously address the economic ills of the country...Seriously address the mortgage crisis...Seriously address the key driver of the financial meltdown - Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac.
How about we discuss his style of Leading From Behind regarding Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, BP oil spill, Debt Ceiling debate.
He has failed in every criteria.
I didn't know Johnathon Alter was still around. I just assumed the went the way of that rag he works for.
nohype| 8.26.11 @ 10:31PM
I doubt if Alter is impressed with Wehner's response. Alter has a position that is pretty much non-falsifiable. If you point out how bad the economic numbers are, his response is that they would have been worse without the measures Obama took. He does not believe that markets self-correct--the ending of the recession is not the normal, delayed response of markets to a shock, but must require some government action. ("How did that [the ending the recession] happen? Luck?") He accepts as obvious the Keynesian model of fiscal policy, so dismisses any criticism of the stimulus. He sees no problem with the increased regulatory burden that this Administration has imposed--he listens to economists for whom all macroeconomic problems are demand-side problems, so there is no need to worry about the supply side. Health care cannot be a problem for the economy because it has not begun yet, though I doubt if Alter could find a reputable economist who would say that people's decisions are unaffected by expectations of the future. As for taxes, he dismisses their effect with a nonsensical quote from Warren Buffett: "People invest to make money and potential taxes have never scared them off." Either people respond to incentives or they do not; you cannot say that people respond to incentives but do not respond to incentives in the same sentence, which is what Buffett is doing.
Alter can remain convinced that Obama is doing a great job despite the dismal economy because he believes that the government is always the solution to and never the source of problems. Given that faith, he is not open to the suggestion that what we need is less government, the position of most who view the Obama presidency as a disaster.
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