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Will The Obama Administration Damage The Dem Party?

By Big Tent Democrat

Paul Krugman:

I was on Good Morning America this not-so-good morning, doing what I could. But I was struck by something that George Stephanopoulos said: he claimed to have been speaking to an administration official who asserted that what we need to get businesses investing is for business to know that the government has stopped — presumably, that means no new spending, no new regulation, whatever.

GS is a careful guy, so this must be true. And it’s shocking — not that people are saying this, but that someone inside the administration is saying it. [. . .] We’ll never know what might have happened if Obama and [C]o. had actually had the courage of their convictions; what we do know is that they have undermined their own message at every turn.

Not clear what their convictions are regarding the economy. One thing seems clear though - the Obama Administration is a clear and imminent danger to the political fortunes of the Democratic Party in 2010 and 2012.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on July 06, 2010 (boomark / email).