{"id":4609,"date":"2010-09-04T08:28:47","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T13:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4609"},"modified":"2010-09-04T08:29:37","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T13:29:37","slug":"solution-to-obama-disappointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/09\/04\/solution-to-obama-disappointment\/","title":{"rendered":"Solution to Obama Disappointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to E.J. Dionne, Jr. piece <a title=\"E. J. Dione, Jr.'s column\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/item\/whats_on_obamas_next_page_20100901\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>What\u2019s on Obama\u2019s Next Page?<\/strong><\/a>, there were various comments adding to the carping about the Obama Presidency.<\/p>\n<p>I explained to the complainers how to solve their problems.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You know how to solve your disappointment with Obama?\u00a0 Put the Republicans back in office.<\/p>\n<p>They will repeal the health reform act as they have promised.\u00a0 There won\u2019t be any more stimulus packages from Republicans.\u00a0 We know they prefer bank bailouts.\u00a0 The TARP was Bush\u2019s answer to the financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Tax cuts for the middle class, sure after they give some more tax cuts for the wealthy.<\/p>\n<p>Repairing crumbling bridges and roads? Naw, that would hinder private enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>Research using embryonic stem cells?\u00a0 No way.\u00a0 We\u2019d rather throw away those frozen embryos than discover a cure for Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>Increase the number of bank examiners and go after fraudulent bank executives?\u00a0 What a waste of money.\u00a0 We know how successful Reagan was in preventing the S&amp;L disaster by refusing to let examiners examine the insolvent S&amp;Ls;.\u00a0 He cut the examiners budgets and refused to pay them decently or give them computers.\u00a0 Now that\u2019s the way a Republican carries out his executive responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t like the intelligence reports that had doubts about whether Saddam Hussein had WMDs, then form your own defense intelligence agency to tell you what you already know for sure is the real truth.<\/p>\n<p>While we\u2019re at it, let\u2019s get rid of the Arab speaking intelligence officers.\u00a0 They might be able to understand what the terrorists are saying, but we can\u2019t have gay people in the military.\u00a0 It ruins unit cohesion.<\/p>\n<p>These are all policies your friendly Republicans have brought to you.\u00a0 They will be glad to bring them back.<\/p>\n<p>But wait! There is even more.\u00a0 This time it will be the Republican Tea Party.\u00a0 If you thought the old Republicans were extreme, you ain\u2019t seen nothing yet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to E.J. Dionne, Jr. piece What\u2019s on Obama\u2019s Next Page?, there were various comments adding to the carping about the Obama Presidency. I explained to the complainers how to solve their problems. You know how to solve your disappointment with Obama?\u00a0 Put the Republicans back in office. They will repeal the health reform [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4611,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609\/revisions\/4611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}