By: Don Storch

Don Storch — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:26:07 +0000

I am not grading an undergraduate seeking a bachelors, nor a law school student seeking a Harvard Law degree. I am grading a President who has a law degree from Harvard, an individual who practiced law, a State Senator from Illinois — which I try not to hold against him — and a United States Senator who served in the Congress. Also, an individual who campaigned for the office he holds for two years on three significant campaign promises. Now if he were an undergraduate student or a law degree student I would suggest he seek out a counselor, but based upon what I see in 27 days, I don’t think he would make the proper selection of a counselor — for he certainly hasn’t had a success rate in picking Cabinet members or other high level positions in his administration. He promised Change, Transparency and Bipartisanship. And on these three campaign promises he has failed before he even got out of the gate and I rest my case on the facts as I presented them in this column. We can discuss the past, but as I have said — it is prologue. When it comes to the Republican Party — you bet they need to get their act together, but so do the Democrats. I truly hope Obama’s spending spree program — 23% stimulus 73% spending — succeeds for all Americans, although I fear its socialism. History, however, has demonstrated this kind of spending spree did not work with ‘The New Deal’ during the Great Depression. It was World War II that got us out of that Depression. As for Rush Limbaugh, he is not the voice of the Republican Party, even though Obama tried to anoint him with this title. His is a voice to be heard as is yours and mine and should not be stifled through a Democratic move to reintroduce the ‘Fairness Doctrine.’ Now we both know where each of us are coming from, and that is healthy. I respect your comments and your point of view and there should be more of this kind of dialogue. I encourage you and other readers to bring on different points of view than what I project, perhaps I too will be influenced.

By: norman

norman — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:16:58 +0000

I don’t know, 27 days and the guy flunked the course already. After 27 days I still wasn’t sure in which building the chem lab was or where to find the bookstore. It’s probably a good thing he wasn’t graded at Harvard Law after 27 days or he might never have made Law Review. Oh well, there’s still summer school where he could make up some credits.
As far as bipartisanship is concerned if the republicans in Congress can provide some creative solutions beyond more tax cuts that benefit the wealthiest 2% of the population there might be some bipartisanship. The fact is they have nothing to offer. There is no viable republican leadership so they’re reduced to divorcing themselves from any proposals beyond tax cuts and to follow Rush Limbaughs’ lead in wishing that Obama fails. It is a sad fact that the most influential and powerful republican today is Limbaugh. I’m a firm believer in a strong two party system for democracy to work, but unless the republican party can get its act together and begin to understand what the American public voted for and need their party will only become more of a sideshow.

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By: Don Storch

By: norman