Krugman: The glums of August

[ProSense]

The glums of August

Howard Fineman, last summer:

When the history of President Barack Obama’s first year in office is written, scholars will try to answer this puzzling question:

How did a gifted, charismatic young Democrat — who won the White House by a large margin and brought in huge congressional majorities — manage NOT to enact fundamental health care reform, a goal his party has been seeking since Truman?

Yes, I know, someone is going to tell me that this isn’t fundamental — but the truth is that the bill the Senate is about to pass looks a lot like the Obama campaign plan, so something real has happened. Give credit to Obama, or Harry Reid, or whoever; the fact is that four months ago the usual suspects were gleefully writing the obituary for reform, and have been sorely disappointed.

[ShortnFiery]

1. Geeze, Krugman seemingly never takes a day off telling us WHAT TO BELIEVE.

:eyes:

[Beetwasher]

6. He's Paid To Write An Opinion Column, What's Yr Excuse?

yr here every day telling us what to believe.

[denem]

2. 59 in the Senate + Lieberman is not a Huge Majority.

It's barely workable, and when it came to the Medicare buy in - Unworkable.

[stevenleser]

5. When its Democrats driving the policy, that is true, unfortunately. (nt)

[Cha]

3. So many want everything to

happen when they want it and cannot conceive of the way the Universe works.

[Beetwasher]

4. It Certainly Is Fundamental

It's a significant and impressive accomplishment.