Drudge: Obama becoming increasingly more negative about crisis
Drudge has the following short item up (without a link obviously): NYT Sunday – “Obama can not assure economy will grow again by end of year; Urges Americans not to ’stuff money in mattresses’…”
It always amuses me that the same outlets that complained about Drudge’s influence for years now sneakely leak information to Matt every time they’ve got a big article coming up. In other words, Drudge isn’t so evil that they don’t want to profit from him. That’s fine, of course, but the hypocrisy is stunning.
If the report is accurate, if Obama will indeed tell the nation that the crisis will continue for some time to come, I think it’s fair to predict that his and the Democrats’ poll numbers will fall in the coming weeks and months. This also happened here in the Netherlands when the government pushed through expensive bills which did little to nothing to end the crisis.
Experts believe Obama’s plan won’t merely ‘not work,’ they’ll prolong and deepen the recession. If critics succeed in informing the American people about this, Republicans will have a great shot at making a major comeback in 2010.
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-->6 Responses to “Drudge: Obama becoming increasingly more negative about crisis”
Comment from lonewolf777
Time March 7, 2009 at 9:53 pm PST
Unless you’re to the right of Limbaugh or have an IQ less than 80, no one takes Drudge seriously.
Comment from Michael van der Galien
Time March 7, 2009 at 10:59 pm PST
Lonewolf: uh, actually, everybody in medialand takes Drudge seriously.
Comment from David
Time March 8, 2009 at 1:08 am PST
I notice that Paul Krugman in the NYT was lambasting Obama for indecision and inaction today, though Krugman’s prescriptions wouldn’t be mine.
Comment from Michael van der Galien
Time March 8, 2009 at 1:21 am PST
David: see my other post. Sources “close to the White House” say Obama feels “overwhelmed” by the responsibilities a president has.
Pathetic really.
Comment from Tully
Time March 9, 2009 at 9:02 pm PDT
Yep yep, even Krugman is showing some buyer’s remorse. It’s not just his plans, but his apparent lack of plans. Not one sound proposal yet to stabilize the markets and deal with the toxic assets and/or capitalization rules that are keeping lending locked up. Instead we get the demonization of “the rich” and plans to spend spend spend in a fashion that makes comparisons to drunken sailors insulting…to drunken sailors.
The realities of this are being reflected in the markets, where people bet with real money, not blog hyperbole.
Comment from David
Time March 7, 2009 at 8:44 pm PST
Obama is completely out of his depth. He is good at delivering a nice speech from a teleprompter but not at governing.