Warmed up?
Everything to this point where we are waiting for President Obama to move into the White House was in a sense prologue. The real struggle to drag our country back from beyond the brink of economic ruin to return just law to the post-2001 order, and to make shared prosperity the rule not the exception to how we do business is only beginning.
Even now some in old media are working hard to reinterpret the clear mandate for change given to President Obama by an overwhelming majority of Americans to mean what they really wanted was a bit more of the same. An article today goes so far as to list the things President Obama should probably not attempt.
Very influential people continue to argue that using tax dollars to pay the bonuses and even the entitlements of failed bankers is good capitalism; and rewarding with tax breaks “American” companies that send American jobs wherever they can find the most exploited workers is just encouraging competition; and allowing the wealthy to hide their profits overseas and reap rewards from the work of others and pay nothing back to this country is somehow patriotic and giving money to military contractors with no oversight in how it is being spent and no demands of quality in what is being purchased is somehow good for national security.
And soon, around the middle of January, Professional Republicans will realize the efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan have come apart and demand to know just how President Obama is going to fix it. By August at least one legislator on the political right will decide it is safe to start complaining that bin laden hasn’t been caught yet secure in the knowledge you will have forgotten he was not brought to justice for 8 years before that.
And so on.
In short everyone who has lost power in the profound paradigm shift in American politics that is President Obama’s election have already begun and will continue to work to convince him and you that he should not do most of what he was elected to do and attempt to blame President Obama for every part of every challenge he will inherit. And do everything in their power to convince all of US that the best he can do is placate the worst of his critics who will never thank him for it, abandon everyone who supported him. Maintain the status quo.
Not this time.
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