Read what this liberal imbecile Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post wrote in his op-ed: Obama is “President of Everything”
President of Everything
By Eugene Robinson
Tuesday, February 17, 2009; A13
This is a presidency on steroids. Barack Obama’s executive actions alone would be enough for any new administration’s first month: decreeing an end to torture and the Guantanamo prison, extending health insurance to more children, reversing Bush-era policies on family planning. That the White House also managed to push through Congress a spending bill of unprecedented size and scope — designed both to provide an economic stimulus and reorder the nation’s priorities — is little short of astonishing.
Now it’s time for the administration to get to work. For his next act, Obama must set the parameters of a new presidential role that he did not seek but cannot avoid: managing the big chunks of the private-sector economy that are now more accurately described as semi-private at best.
This week, executives from General Motors and Chrysler are reporting on their progress in transforming themselves into lean, mean carmaking machines, capable of leading American industry into a new golden age. They will also explain that they need some more money, and fast, if they are not to crash and burn. GM, which got a $9.4 billion cash infusion from the government just two months ago, wants the remaining $4 billion that the Bush administration approved; Chrysler, which got $4 billion in December, urgently needs $3 billion more.
Maybe it’s just baby boomer nostalgia for the car culture of my youth, but I think it’s a good idea for the United States to have a domestic automobile industry. Is there a man or woman alive who believes these will be automakers’ last requests for bailout money from Washington? GM, at least, has done a decent job of capturing market share overseas, so maybe that’s a framework for the company to reinvent itself. Chrysler is so diminished that I wonder whether there’s any alternative to getting what’s left of the company ready for sale.
Obama has abandoned plans to appoint a “car czar” to oversee government aid to the auto (….)