Adding to the continued drumbeat of folks like Paul Krugman, informal Obama advisor and former Clinton cabinet member Laura D’Andrea Tyson has added her insistence that the original plan was nice, but not enough. She said the February stimulus bill will have more effect in the second half of this year, but that the economy is “a sicker patient” than the Obama Administration first recognized.
She doesn’t note that it’s a sicker patient than Team Obama yet wants to admit, either.
It’s not a lost art for presidents to whistle in the economic dark as part of their moral bully pulpits. But, you have to act, behind that.
Also, Obama is trying to get both healthcare reform of some sort, and a climate “control” bill, through the Senate. He probably doesn’t want to do any more right now, not that he’s necessarily doing that much with either one of those.
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