George Rebane
More and more progressive voices are beginning to sound discontented with their Chief Community Organizer. It turns out that even they are beginning to look seriously for what the man’s long suit was – so far they haven’t found anything beyond having done well in his teleprompter training course. So more and more Democrats are beginning consider Plan B.
Some are recommending that a credible and electable alternative liberal throw his (hers too) hat into the ring, because it would get Obama’s attention and possibly “tighten him up” a bit for the 2012 run. Others are simply saying that this guy had his chance and blew it big time.
Among these are worthies like Professors Ralph Shaffer and Norma Jeanne Strobel who write in today’s Union wondering ‘Who will face Obama in the primaries?’ Giving their arguments for why Obama should be replaced, they opt for Washington’s perennial progressive, fellow professor Robert Reich.
Unfortunately, the authors themselves are avowed progressive academics (are there any other kinds?) and therefore have no idea what happened during the Depression. They like Reich because, as President, they believe that the diminutive Democrat will immediately announce the restart of the Works Projects Administration – backbone of FDR’s New Deal. The problem is that the WPA, along with the New Deal’s remaining alphabet soup job programs, didn’t work.
RR readers are familiar with Sec Treasury Morgenthau’s 1939 testimony to Congress when national unemployment was as high as that which FDR had at the beginning of his tenure in the White House. Morgenthau lamented that the administration had thrown everything that borrowed money could buy at the economy, and nothing had worked. He was desperate for new ideas. (Help came shortly thereafter when Hitler and Stalin suggested WW2.)
The footnote to all this is that the left continues to tell the country that it is the conservatives who want to turn back the clock to a time when nothing worked. But I agree, they should toss the CCO and give Robert or Hillary or …, and the country a chance.
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