This is an interesting article that hits on the exact problem I have with the Obama administration. He thinks about long term plans but doesn't execute on the minutiae. This part on the economy is what I don't like the most:
Second, he does not seem to care much about the details of policy. He subcontracted the stimulus package to congressional appropriators, the cap-and-trade legislation to Henry Waxman and Edward Markey, and his health care program to Max Baucus. The result is incoherent public policy: indefensible pork barrel projects, a carbon emissions bill that doesn’t limit carbon emissions from politically connected industries, and a health care program priced by the Congressional Budget Office at a fiscally unfeasible $1,600,000,000,000.
I'm not sure that Obama's stimulus plan would have been better but the Congress one is a dismal failure so far. You can hear him say "we need healthcare reform" over and over but then relies on Congress to hammer out the details. Then when their Budget Office says the thing will cost $1.6 trillion the Obama people have to scramble to convince people that we can afford such a staggering sum. Even cap-and-trade will be dismal failure and too much of a hard sell during recession like this one.
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