Robert Kuttner, who wrote a book last year on Barack Obama’s potential to be a transformational liberal president, is thrilled with Obama’s Task Force on Middle Class Working Families, and his corresponding statement, which Kuttner called, “the kind of explicit endorsement that we literally haven’t heard from a president since FDR’s day.” Among other things, Obama declared, “I do not view the labor movement as part of the problem, to me it’s part of the solution.”
There has been a lot of talk about the relative moderation of Obama’s economic team, but it’s been abundantly clear that he doesn’t plan on forgetting the big unions that helped him get to the White House.
