Is there anything interesting going on right now?
Am I the only one completely bored out of my mind?
Anyway, I read this, thought it was pretty good.
Another week, another earthquake. Having already signed a nearly eight-hundred-billion-dollar stimulus bill, restored the rule of law to America’s treatment of detainees in its custody, developed plans to shore up the banking and housing sectors, demanded new regulation of private equity and hedge funds, proposed sweeping reforms in health care, energy, and education, and deepened the country’s involvement in Afghanistan and Pakistan, President Obama, in his tenth week in office, effectively put the government in charge of a large part of the automobile industry. And that was just Monday. By midweek, at the G-20 meeting in London, he had also committed the United States in principle to a new global regulatory framework for financial markets and, by some accounts, had resurrected the art of Presidential diplomacy. Then, on Thursday night, he won passage of a $3.5-trillion budget, whose tax and spending provisions mark the end of a long-term trend toward greater inequality.
I think this is why no one seems to regret voting for Obama.
He's not giving everyone what they want, but then again, he never could. He's doing a pretty kick-ass job, though. It's unfortunate we have to have our rock star president during such bad times, but maybe that's exactly when we need a good guy in office.
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