get up stand up
June 2010
7 posts
“My own provisional judgment is the same on the economy, where Obama’s actions helped prevent what could have been a Second Great Depression. Historians will fight over this, but it seems pretty clear to me right now that Obama picked most of the least worst options and is prepared, unlike the GOP, to speak honestly about the deficit in the next two years. In the bank bailouts (much more successful than we first thought), the stimulus (still working), the health insurance reform (a real start on a deep and vexing problem across the developed world), and even the swarm of issues around Gitmo (torture has ended, while necessary, lawful military detentions and renditions continue), you see the same pattern of emotionally unsatisfying but structurally deep changes in the orientation of the ship of state. This is very gradual change we can believe in.”
—Andrew Sullivan — Getting Shit Done
“the only person who really knows how Armando Galarraga feels is Al Gore, circa 2000”
—Travis_Esq
