By GottaLaff
Marc Ambinder makes it easy to see what P.E. Obama's up to. Here are the basics. Go here for a few more details:
-- choosing Democratic comity and spending over a thinner, broader coalition by reducing the profile and scope of his tax cuts
-- choosing health care over national cap-and-trade, at least in year one. Just watch this one....
-- promising to solve the entitlement quandary by commission and consensus, rather than by proposing. Note that Obama and other Democrats, during the campaign, referred to Social Security and Medicare as promises to keep, rather than "entitlements," which transfers the moral responsibility onto the government. Now it's back to "entitlements." [...]
-- favoring journalists. Is the New York Times is out, and the Washington Post are in. Certain conservative voices are in, others are out. Some liberal bloggers have the administration's ear; others get no love. [...]
-- ignoring press fretting over a harried transition. Gallup finds that 83% of Americans surveyed believe that the Obama transition has been a success. [...] Americans are growing slightly less pessmistic and slightly more optimistic about their futures. (I said slightly.)
Keep track of Obama's promises at National Journal's Promise Audit.
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