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| MoDo: change we can't believe in |
| 2009-03-04 |
| In one of his disturbing spells of passivity, President Obama decided not to fight Congress and live up to his own no-earmark pledge from the campaign. He's been lecturing us on the need to prune away frills while the economy fizzles. He was slated to make a speech on "wasteful spending" on Wednesday. "You know, there are times where you can afford to redecorate your house and there are times where you need to focus on rebuilding its foundation," he said recently about the "hard choices" we must make. Yet he did not ask Congress to sacrifice and make hard choices; he let it do a lot of frivolous redecorating in its budget. He reckons he'll need Congress for more ambitious projects, like health care, and when he goes back to wheedle more bailout billions, given that A.I.G. and G.M. and our other corporate protectorates are burning through our money faster than we can print it and borrow it from the ever-more-alarmed Chinese. Team Obama sounds hollow, chanting that "the status quo is not acceptable," even while conceding that the president is accepting the status quo by signing a budget festooned with pork. I never thought I'd live to type these words without a gun to my head, but: Maureen Dowd is right. It may just be this once, but still ... This sin't one of those "signs of the apocalypse" they keep talking about, is it? |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #9 No, even a blind journalist can find the truth once in a while...she must be off her meds. I believe the correct analogy is "Even a blind sow finds an acorn now and then." |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2009-03-04 21:41 |
| #8 She's getting too old to be one of the cool kids. Blame Bushy for a little bit more, examine the 401K, pray for some sort of life after who cares about Moo. "" "" ------ buh bye! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2009-03-04 20:22 |
| #7 the blog posts in response to Modo were pretty amusing. |
| Posted by: Andy Ulusoque aka Broadhead6 2009-03-04 15:52 |
| #6 She's the best high school newspaper columnist ever to appear in the Times. Ooooh! That's gotta hurt. Steve takes no prisoners! |
| Posted by: Darrell 2009-03-04 14:22 |
| #5 MoDo is a writer and columnist. She's the best high school newspaper columnist ever to appear in the Times. That said, she needs to write, and she can't forever write her usual gushy, slurpy, syncophantic, hormonal praise of The One. It all sounds the same after a while, and when you're a writer that's no good. Pinchy might decide to recycle her columns and eliminate her position. So she has to do something. Writing some mild criticism -- and urging Bambi to the left -- is at least new copy. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2009-03-04 11:47 |
| #4 Buyer's Remorse. I love it (and I told ya so, MoDo)! |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2009-03-04 10:59 |
| #3 Looks like it's time for Pinchy to have the hallucinogens replenished in the Times water coolers... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-03-04 10:51 |
| #2 Please I need a drink I agree with MoDo??? There was a time I would rather rip out my tongue with a pair of pliers than say those words. Hallucinations? No, even a blind journalist can find the truth once in a while...she must be off her meds. |
| Posted by: James Carville 2009-03-04 10:47 |
| #1 I am having hallucinations or does it look like MoDo is sliding towards hostility to Obama? |
| Posted by: JFM 2009-03-04 10:14 |