December 25, 2016
OUR REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT:
Was Barack Obama Bad for Democrats? (STANLEY B. GREENBERG and ANNA GREENBERGDEC. 23, 2016, NY Times)
President Obama will be remembered as a thoughtful and dignified president who led a scrupulously honest administration that achieved major changes.People argue over whether his impatience with politicians and Republican intransigence denied him bigger accomplishments, but that argument is beside the point: He rescued an economy in crisis and passed the recovery program, pulled America back from its military overreach, passed the Affordable Care Act and committed the nation to addressing climate change. To be truly transformative in the way he wanted, however, his success had to translate into electoral gains for those who shared his vision and wanted to reform government. On that count, Mr. Obama failed.His legacy regrettably includes the more than 1,000 Democrats who lost their elections during his two terms. Republicans now have total control in half of America's states.
Hard to demonize Republicans when you govern as one.
Posted by Orrin Judd at December 25, 2016 2:13 AM