"He has done what he promised. He's transforming our country" by blackwaterdog

[kpete]

"He has done what he promised. He's transforming our country"
by blackwaterdog

Fri Jul 16, 2010 at 01:52:41 PM PDT

Hello

A very long, heavy on videos and photos, celebratory diary ahead (with a nod to askew - thank you, mate).

more:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/7/16/884467/-He-has-done-what-he-promised.-Hes-transforming-our-country

NYT:

...The financial regulatory bill is the final piece of a legislative hat trick that also included the stimulus bill and the landmark new health care law. Over the last 18 months, Mr. Obama and the Democratic Congress have made considerable inroads in passing what could be the most ambitious agenda in decades.

Mr. Obama has done what he promised when he ran for office in 2008: he has used government as an instrument to try to narrow the gaps between the haves and the have-nots. He has injected $787 billion in tax dollars into the economy, provided health coverage to 32 million uninsured and now, reordered the relationship among Washington, Wall Street, investors and consumers.

...Once Obama signs financial reform into law next week, it will cap a run of legislative activity that rivals some of the most ambitious efforts in American history to rewrite the relationship between government and its citizens. Obama will have not only passed a stimulus package that helped pull the economy back from the brink; he will have also begun reshaping two major chunks of our economy: Health care and Wall Street. As many have noted already, he's probably done more than any president since FDR to transform our country.



http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/16/business/16assess.html?_r=2&hp

[Davis_X_Machina]

1. Sorry, blackwater dog is wrong. Just wrong, ok.?

And twenty or thirty people will be along presently to explain exactly why.

Because he's wrong. As in not-right. Or the opposite-of-correct.

(I thought I might save them the effort. Give them a chance to get outside and buy a soda, grab a smoke, or something.)

They can hardly keep up as it is.

[redqueen]

4. The sad thing is...

that with all the... whatever it is making people say they're going to sit out the next elections... there is what seems like a better than decent chance that we'll have not only a republican congress next year, but a republican president in 2012.

[Davis_X_Machina]

5. That just brings...

...President Kucinich's first term a little closer, is all.

Things will be way cool then.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

8. and THAT is a VERY scary thought

in that worst case scenario, how would one find out how to leave the country?

[Oregone]

11. Thats life, and life only

You can't depend on a voter to make the case for themselves that they are better off voting rather than reading a good book or taking a walk on a beach. That's something that should happen in a campaign, and its the responsibility of the candidate to prove just that.


"but a republican president in 2012"

Doubt it

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

12. Not likely on the 2012 prediction

Obama is another Clinton. America will settle for gridlock.

[Parche]

19. Hey

:hug::hug::hug::hi:

[HipChick]

2. he's probably done more than any president since FDR to transform our country...K&R!

[DevonRex]

3. But, but, but, the cabinet!!!11111 ELEVENS1111!!!!! ZOMG!111

And RAHM11111ELEVENTY-ELEVENS1111!!!!111

[Spazito]

6. LOL, you forgot the latest boogeyman.....

Geithner.....oh noes....11!!!111 we're doooooomed, doooomed I tells ya!

[DevonRex]

7. Run fer yer lives !!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111!!!!!!!!!!!!

:scared: :hide: :yoiks: :tinfoilhat: :nuke: :wow:

[dionysus]

24. CRUSIE MISSLES!!1!! PRIVATE SCHOOL!!1!! LATTE IN MY FACE!! ARRGH *boom*

[JoeyT]

26. Still no return habeus corpus.

Assassinating American citizens. Torture is still fine. Trying to prevent people from facing their accusers in court.

I never thought the death, torture, and kidnapping of possibly innocent people and outright death of some innocents would be "ponies" to other Democrats.

[alfredo]

9. Obama? Sounds like some furener or sumpin.

[sendero]

10. $787 billion for the plebes.....

... and trillions and trillions for the banksters. This guy is an idiot.

[Radical Activist]

14. Banks have repaid 75% of the money.

This is already starting to sound like a weak gripe about something Obama took over from Bush and turned around.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/23/business/23tarp.html

[Luminous Animal]

16. The payback has little to do with Obama or Bush, for that matter. As Obama himself has admitted...

"As long as the banks were under TARP, Feinberg had limited executive salaries to $500,000 a year and made stock-based bonuses untouchable for at least two years. Last night on 60 Minutes, President Obama said some bank executives were paying off TARP to get around the limits on what they pay themselves.

"Do you think that's why they paid it back specifically?" asked 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft.

"I think in some cases that was a motivation," Mr. Obama said. "Which I think tells me that the people on Wall Street still don't get it. They don't get it - $10, $20 million bonuses after America went through the worst economic year that it's gone through in decades, and you guys caused the problem.""

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/14/eveningnews/main5979279.shtml

[Radical Activist]

20. Sounds like that was a good provision

that got some of the money repaid. Nice.

[Luminous Animal]

27. Hahaha. Yes. Let's repay the money in order to reap wild personal profit...

And avoid regulation. As usual, you and Obama screw us over.

[Radical Activist]

28. So you don't want the money repaid.

I thought not getting the money back would be screwing us over. :shrug:

[sendero]

18. I could...

.. spend quite a bit of time here explaining why the bankers HAVE NOT paid back most of the money and they never will (the money you are talking about, the TARP, is a tiny fraction of the monies they have recieved, including the ZIRP which is ripping off every American with savings for the benefit of the bankers) but I'm not gonna.

You go ahead and believe whatever ridiculous bullshit that lets you think everything is fine and your hero is not a zero.

[Motown_Johnny]

13. the hat trick isn't enough, we still need an energy bill and immigration reform

and tax reform before we can start talking about truly transforming our country.


Not that I expected all of that in 2 years, but it is to early to declare mission accomplished.

[Radical Activist]

15. We need a climate change bill now.

The last I read, Reid was going to force a vote, so I've got my fingers crossed.

[bvar22]

21. And we still need to get back to Health "Care" Reform...

Remember, we were going to "Fix it Later".

[dflprincess]

22. It will have to get in line behind NAFTA and NCLB

and all those other bills that were passed needing "fixing later".

But first - they'll have to pass some more half-assed legislation that will get fixed later.

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[MisterP]

23. jeesh, five minutes ago it was "he can't do anything because of obstructionism"

"you can't expect him to be in charge of the executive branch!" "change takes time" "everything is watered down because of the GOP, or because you simply don't know How Politics WorksTM" "he didn't really appoint Geithner, Summers, Axelrod, Emanuel, etc." (excuses are taken from http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/16/liberals_and_obama_on_the_oil_spill_--_continued)

it has to be one or the other!

[Scurrilous]

25. Yep.

K & R :thumbsup: