re: #83 Kosh’s Shadow

I’m not sure Obama will behave the way Clinton did. Look at how quickly Clinton dropped his health care ideas when they weren’t received. Obama is trying to convince everyone he’s right.

I agree that Obama is pressing the fight. My own assessment is that he still is very much a moralist and sees the moral dimensions of what he wants to do as overriding the economic burden. The refrain from most progressives? “We can afford it.”

unless we have an economy driven by actual productivity growth (which also requires cheaper energy inputs per dollar of output, BTW) then the retort is “No we can’t.”

We will see if his morality overrides practicality. It did with Bush at times whereas Clinton wasn’t really committed to the ideology that got him into office.