There are way too many Republicans in this administration.
Call it a hunch on my part, but I have a suspicion that putting Timothy Geitner in charge of a department he once tried to abolish was not a particularly smart idea. Come to think of it, it was a monumentally stupid one. While there were indeed a number of Republicans within the New Deal, they at least believed in the agenda.
And speaking of the New Deal (and it's all-but-impossible not to refer to it during these trying times) I expected this president to have, at the very least, a remedial understanding of American history. During the campaign he constantly referred to Doris Kearns-Goodwin's excellent biography of Abraham Lincoln, Team of Rivals. As I said at the time, right author, wrong book. The book he should have been reading was her bio of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, No Ordinary Time. The reason New Deal was so successful three-quarters-of-a-century ago (recent right wing revisionism notwithstanding) was because Franklin Roosevelt's Brain Trust understood full well that 1933 was not a time for caution and timidity; it was a time for bold, experimental "action" - a word that Roosevelt used consistently in his speeches at the time. Why does President Obama seem to not get this? If he continues on the course which he has apparently set for himself, he is doomed to failure. Remember you read it here on OpEdNews.com, Mr. and Mrs. America.
It is high time that the Dems throw some ice-cold water on their clueless faces and realize that their entire reason for being is not to position themselves as Republican Lite. They are - or at least they're supposed to be - the party of progressiveness. They can begin by ensuring that those "timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat", the Evan Bayh crowd, are badly defeated in the primaries of 2010 and 2012. This country can only be saved by making a hard turn toward the left. That is not merely my humble opinion, that is a statement that is backed up by two-and-a-third centuries of historical fact.
Wake up, Democrats, it's later than you think.
Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
HEY DEMS! HERE'S SOME SUGGESTED READING FOR YOU:
Profiles in Courage
by John F. Kennedy
Jack Kennedy. Remember him?
Originally posted at The Rant.
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