Yonivore
10-10-2011, 06:47 PM
Financial crisis and stimulus: Could this time be different? (http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/financial-crisis-and-stimulus-could-this-time-be-different/2011/10/04/gIQALuwdVL_print.html)
“The biggest problem we had in terms of the loss of political capital is we came in and did a bunch of stuff, and things got worse,” says Ron Klain, who served as chief of staff to Biden. “And some of that was just bad luck. If we didn’t have the 22nd Amendment and Barack Obama became president in late March rather than in late January, things would have been much worse when we came in than they were. And then the Recovery Act would have come not in February, but in May. We would already have hit bottom, and it would seem like things were getting better.”
Of course, why didn't we all realize this sooner?
But, I'm not sure what the amendment, limiting the President to two terms, has to do with Obama's failed economic policies but, I suppose, without it, we could be in a 3rd Bush term or a 5th Clinton term. That could be at what he's driving.
Actually, it was the 20th Amendment that moved the start of the presidential term up by six weeks. But as Klein has astutely observed (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/12/30/wapos_ezra_klein_constitution_confusing_because_it _is_old.html), the Constitution is all confusing and stuff because it was written like 100 years ago.
Hell, why stop at the 20th? Why not blame the 17th, which provided for the popular election of Senators. Chances are, without that, Obama wouldn't have even been in a position to be elected in 2008 and, therefore, wouldn't have to worry about what to blame for this miserable performance.
“The biggest problem we had in terms of the loss of political capital is we came in and did a bunch of stuff, and things got worse,” says Ron Klain, who served as chief of staff to Biden. “And some of that was just bad luck. If we didn’t have the 22nd Amendment and Barack Obama became president in late March rather than in late January, things would have been much worse when we came in than they were. And then the Recovery Act would have come not in February, but in May. We would already have hit bottom, and it would seem like things were getting better.”
Of course, why didn't we all realize this sooner?
But, I'm not sure what the amendment, limiting the President to two terms, has to do with Obama's failed economic policies but, I suppose, without it, we could be in a 3rd Bush term or a 5th Clinton term. That could be at what he's driving.
Actually, it was the 20th Amendment that moved the start of the presidential term up by six weeks. But as Klein has astutely observed (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/12/30/wapos_ezra_klein_constitution_confusing_because_it _is_old.html), the Constitution is all confusing and stuff because it was written like 100 years ago.
Hell, why stop at the 20th? Why not blame the 17th, which provided for the popular election of Senators. Chances are, without that, Obama wouldn't have even been in a position to be elected in 2008 and, therefore, wouldn't have to worry about what to blame for this miserable performance.