{"id":287202,"date":"2010-02-06T07:30:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T12:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/02\/06\/the-electorate-vs-obamas-agenda\/"},"modified":"2010-02-06T07:30:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T12:30:58","slug":"the-electorate-vs-obama%e2%80%99s-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/287202","title":{"rendered":"The Electorate vs Obama\u2019s Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2010\/02\/05\/dont_they_understand_massachusetts.html\" >The Electorate vs Obama&#8217;s Agenda \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post<br \/>&#8220;I am not an ideologue,&#8221; protested President Obama at a gathering with Republican House members last week. Perhaps, but he does have a tenacious commitment to a set of political convictions.Compare his 2010 State of the Union to his first address to Congress a year earlier. The consistency is remarkable. In 2009, after passing a $787 billion (now $862 billion) stimulus package, the largest spending bill in galactic history, he unveiled a manifesto for fundamentally restructuring the commanding heights of American society &#8212; health care, education and energy.<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/02\/05\/rising_debt_will_do_us_in_228972.html\" >Rising Debt Will Do U.S. In \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Brian Riedl, Boston Herald<br \/>It&apos;s a good thing President Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress just agreed to raise the federal debt limit by nearly $2 trillion &#8211; they&apos;re going to need every penny of it. And fast.Last year, Obama swept into office promising to make tough choices &#8211; and then released a budget proposing the largest debt-and-spending spree in American history. This year, he&apos;s at it again: Over 2010-2019, his new plan boosts spending another $1.7 trillion and the deficit by $2 trillion over what he proposed last year.In fact, this year&apos;s budget shows yearly deficits as much as 49&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/02\/05\/a_course_correction_on_terrorism_228999.html\" >A Course Correction on Terrorism \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Stuart Taylor, National Journal<br \/>Sign In\tnationaljournal.com \t     \t  &gt; National Journal Magazine &gt; Opening Argument\t\tSponsored Links                                                                             \t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t \t\t \t\t \t \t \tAbout National Journal MagazineSubscriptions  &#124;  Contact Us                         Cover Story       Table ofContents       Contents ByTopic              ColumnsBrownsteinCookCrookRauchStokesSchneiderTaylor Jr.      RegularFeaturesHotline ExtraInside WashingtonInsiders PollK Street CorridorPeopleThe Week on the Hill                          \t\t \t\t   \t\t          \t                Print &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/02\/05\/michigan039s_blueprint_for_america_228962.html\" >Michigan&#8217;s Blueprint for America \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Henry Payne, National Review<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;SIGN UP FOR FREE NRO NEWSLETTERS FEBRUARY 8, 2010, ISSUE&nbsp;&nbsp; &#124; &nbsp;&nbsp;VIEW COVER&nbsp;&nbsp; &#124; &nbsp;&nbsp;BUY THIS ISSUE&nbsp;&nbsp; &#124; &nbsp;&nbsp;SUBSCRIBE TO NR Page Tools                     TEXT RESIZE&nbsp;&nbsp;                                          &nbsp;                                       Send to a Friend&nbsp;                                                            Author RSS&nbsp;                                                            Print&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/02\/05\/toyota_too_good_to_be_true_228993.html\" >Toyota: Too Good To Be True \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Edward Niedermeyer, The Truth About Cars<br \/>The ongoing kerfluffle over Toyota&#8217;s recall of over 2m vehicles for a gas pedal defect which (allegedly) caused unintended acceleration has caught much of the automotive media flat-footed. How could it be, many have wondered, that the automaker most associated in the US market with the concept of quality has slipped so badly? As TTAC&#8217;s Steve Lang recently discussed, Toyota has been on a decontenting binge since the mid-to-late-1990s, putting profit above the quality obsession that had defined its operations up to that point. As a result, the current generation of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electorate vs Obama&#8217;s Agenda Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post&#8220;I am not an ideologue,&#8221; protested President Obama at a gathering with Republican House members last week. Perhaps, but he does have a tenacious commitment to a set of political convictions.Compare his 2010 State of the Union to his first address to Congress a year earlier. 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