Change You Can Forget About
Joe Galloway is throwing in the towel on the Yes We Can presidency:
Obama's approval ratings are beginning to unwind and begin a long downward spiral among those who had believed in the promises of change. There was a golden moment when change was possible, but it is gone now.
He's probably right. It's beginning to look like Obama will be the second best Republican president we ever had, right after Bill Clinton.
Comments
I can hardly read news anymore! The vested interests have won, the oligarchy continues. I'm eating worms.
Posted by: Lev | June 22, 2009 04:39 PM
I know exactly how you feel, Lev (well, except for the worms part). What's pushing me over the edge is seeing how health care "reform" is being squashed.
Posted by: abi | June 22, 2009 08:08 PM
I'm still inclined to think that the will or lack thereof of the people is the real barrier.
Mind you, from a standing start, a decent health program is problematic.
We in Oz have the basics in place and we still need to fight constantly for basic funding.
Posted by: cartledge@gmail.com | June 25, 2009 07:22 PM
Cart, you (and Obama) may be correct that we can't just suddenly jump to a single-payer system. A strong public plan may be a good path to that end. But the Dems are starting to sound like they're going to cave once again, and agree to a weak public plan that will have limited access to it. Then what we're left with is mandated insurance that gives millions of new customers to the insurers and does nothing to lower costs.
Posted by: abi | June 26, 2009 08:22 PM