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Although Obama came out of

Elusive Trope — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:03:23 +0000

Although Obama came out of the ceiling debate better than the Congressional Dems and Repubs, he was still pulled into the dysfunction and it hurt is image with many folks. The notion that Obama giving a number of speeches about big ideas and then having nothing to show for it (except a congress in a stalemate) come election day is without a ounce of doubt the superior approach is I believe going too far. I believe you are allowing what your personal preferences to color your assessment of the two different approaches.

See, I'm saying that it's

acanuck — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:31:09 +0000

In reply to First, from a "small dent"

See, I'm saying that it's precisely from the political strategist pov that this approach fails. I'm starting to think they're both misguided and stupid.

First, from a "small dent"

Elusive Trope — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:45:53 +0000

In reply to Yes, one may disagree about

First, from a "small dent" strategy p.o.v., it would mean doing something more than just patent reform. Even they would agree patent reform only would not lead to re-election. They may be misguided, but they're not stupid.

Second, I am not saying this approach is the superior approach of the two, merely that from a political strategist pov it does have a certain abstract logic.

Yes, one may disagree about

acanuck — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 07:57:18 +0000

In reply to It is comprehensible if one

Yes, one may disagree about that. "A small dent?" Yeah, those independents are really going to rally to the president's side over patent reform. Get serious, Trope.

Not much of a question,

Doctor Cleveland — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 03:01:44 +0000

In reply to White House: To Fight or Not to Fight, That is the Question

Not much of a question, really. Compromise isn't a risk at this point; it's absolutely certain to weaken Obama's position further. Fighting is the only chance to improve his position.

It is comprehensible if one

Elusive Trope — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 21:28:19 +0000

In reply to The country's No. 1 problem

It is comprehensible if one believes (1) while the policies may be useless to make huge dent in the problem, they will make some kind of dent, and (2) the alternative is lock horns in a stalemate which creates nothing and thus no dent whatsoever.

One may disagree that achieving a small dent (and thus tangible) is better than locking horns in an ideological battle over a second larger stimulus, but from a political strategist point of view hardly incomprehensible.

The country's No. 1 problem

acanuck — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 20:41:29 +0000

In reply to White House: To Fight or Not to Fight, That is the Question

The country's No. 1 problem is economic: jobs. Making the economy the president's No. 1 political problem. Yet his political advisers are ignoring, overriding or driving out his economic advisers. Instead, they want to stick with policies they know are useless, because they believe they can pass a divided Congress. Worse than pathetic, it's near-incomprehensible.

I was thinking of posting

Bruce Levine — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:00:10 +0000

In reply to White House: To Fight or Not to Fight, That is the Question

I was thinking of posting this. Funny that even Schumer is challenging the caution of William Daley et al. Seems like a no-brainer to me.