Almost four weeks have past since Obama became president.
In that time, the right has criticised him for: his lack of wearing a suit jacket and signing the stimulus bill on Tuesday instead of Friday night through Monday.
Aren't we off to a rousing start? My gosh, I did not vote for Bush in 2000. Yet, I gave the guy a chance, and through say... March 2002, had no complaints with his performance. He lost me with Iraq, from the moment the whispers began of a plan to attack that nation.
I watch the criticism of the stimulus bill, and people wish that this bill be sliced and diced and dissected and scrutinised as if it were an energy or education bill, where we have time to ponder and evaluate.
There is no time to ponder and evaluate now; we need to act. If we err somewhere, well, we will correct the error later. What counted was size of bill and speed of passage. That three Republicans bravely defied their party to vote for this bill is a tribute to their recognition of the urgency of the problem.
Democrats reached out in a way never extended to them over the first six years of the Bush Administration, yet for a party barely holding on to any sort of relevance, the reaching out was insufficient.
So long as the right refuses to recognise they cannot get everything they wish nor block everything they do not wish for, so long as this parlays into a refusal to compromise, they will remain irrelevant in American politics.
In that time, the right has criticised him for: his lack of wearing a suit jacket and signing the stimulus bill on Tuesday instead of Friday night through Monday.
Aren't we off to a rousing start? My gosh, I did not vote for Bush in 2000. Yet, I gave the guy a chance, and through say... March 2002, had no complaints with his performance. He lost me with Iraq, from the moment the whispers began of a plan to attack that nation.
I watch the criticism of the stimulus bill, and people wish that this bill be sliced and diced and dissected and scrutinised as if it were an energy or education bill, where we have time to ponder and evaluate.
There is no time to ponder and evaluate now; we need to act. If we err somewhere, well, we will correct the error later. What counted was size of bill and speed of passage. That three Republicans bravely defied their party to vote for this bill is a tribute to their recognition of the urgency of the problem.
Democrats reached out in a way never extended to them over the first six years of the Bush Administration, yet for a party barely holding on to any sort of relevance, the reaching out was insufficient.
So long as the right refuses to recognise they cannot get everything they wish nor block everything they do not wish for, so long as this parlays into a refusal to compromise, they will remain irrelevant in American politics.
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