Obama’s Great Month
On November 26, the Obama administration put forward new anti-smog regulations that should prevent thousands of premature deaths and heart attacks every year. About two weeks later, Obama’s appointees at the Federal Reserve implemented new rules curbing reckless borrowing by giant banks that will reduce profits and shareholder earnings but increase the safety of the financial system. Yet both of these were minor stories compared to normalizing relations with Cuba after decades and his sweeping plan to protect millions of unauthorized immigrants from
deportation. Somewhere in the meantime, Democrats broke the congressional logjam and got a whole boatload of nominees confirmed.
And not only is he keeping his own promises, he is keeping Republican ones from 2012:
Remember the 2012 presidential campaign? It was just two years ago that Mitt Romney boasted that if he were elected president, he’d “get the unemployment rate down to 6 percent, perhaps a little lower” by the end of his first term in 2016.Americans decided to re-elect President Obama instead. The unemployment dropped below 6 percent in September 2014, about two years ahead of Romney’s timeline.It was around this time when Newt Gingrich vowed that if he were the president, he’d lower the price of gas to $2.50 a gallon. That was the threshold for success.
Copyright 2014 Liberaland
By: Stuart Shapiro
Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.
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edmeyer_able December 18th, 2014 at 18:44
For a Lame Duck he sure is kicking a lot of a**, imagine if he had even one house.
Jack E Raynbeau December 18th, 2014 at 20:52
Interesting observation… No two-term president has had even one house in his 4th quarter since Truman. Truman had both.
William December 18th, 2014 at 22:37
Amen
burqa December 18th, 2014 at 22:46
If he still had the Senate, he’d have a lot easier time of getting another person on the Supreme Court, if a vacancy arises.
edmeyer_able December 18th, 2014 at 19:44
For a Lame Duck he sure is kicking a lot of a**, imagine if he had even one house.
Jack E Raynbeau December 18th, 2014 at 21:52
Interesting observation… No two-term president has had even one house in his 4th quarter since Truman. Truman had both.
William December 18th, 2014 at 23:37
Amen
burqa December 18th, 2014 at 23:46
If he still had the Senate, he’d have a lot easier time of getting another person on the Supreme Court, if a vacancy arises.
arc99 December 18th, 2014 at 18:49
submitted without further comment, except to say, the President’s signature achievement is working. suck on it righties….
http://time.com/3639785/uninsured-obamacare-record/
Number of Uninsured Americans Near Historic Low
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The data released Thursday from the National Center for Health Statistics’ National Health Interview Survey found that 11.3 percent of Americans were without coverage in the second quarter of 2014, down from 13.1 percent in the first quarter and 14.4 percent throughout 2013. An analysis by the White House Council of Economic Advisers finds the drop in the uninsured to be the largest in four decades, amounting to roughly 9.7 million Americans getting insurance, consistent with other Affordable Care Act estimates.
burqa December 18th, 2014 at 22:45
Nice pull, arc99. The Democratic Party needs to be out there loudly getting those people registered to vote, and then get them to the polls in November 2016.
arc99 December 18th, 2014 at 19:49
submitted without further comment, except to say, the President’s signature achievement is working. suck on it righties….
http://time.com/3639785/uninsured-obamacare-record/
Number of Uninsured Americans Near Historic Low
…
The data released Thursday from the National Center for Health Statistics’ National Health Interview Survey found that 11.3 percent of Americans were without coverage in the second quarter of 2014, down from 13.1 percent in the first quarter and 14.4 percent throughout 2013. An analysis by the White House Council of Economic Advisers finds the drop in the uninsured to be the largest in four decades, amounting to roughly 9.7 million Americans getting insurance, consistent with other Affordable Care Act estimates.
burqa December 18th, 2014 at 23:45
Nice pull, arc99. The Democratic Party needs to be out there loudly getting those people registered to vote, and then get them to the polls in November 2016.
KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker December 18th, 2014 at 19:14
Not to mention the republcians favorite hero Vlad Putin with a Ruble in free-fall, a crashed economy and Cuba saying bye bye to Russia.
KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker December 18th, 2014 at 20:14
Not to mention the republcians favorite hero Vlad Putin with a Ruble in free-fall, a crashed economy and Cuba saying bye bye to Russia.
jasperjava December 18th, 2014 at 21:54
I would add that the release of the torture report reminded everyone of the horror we left behind when we elected this President and threw the evil B*$h/Cheney regime in the dustbin of history.
Maxx44 December 19th, 2014 at 17:16
Actually it was the Cheney/Rove regime. W was a sock puppet.
jasperjava December 18th, 2014 at 22:54
I would add that the release of the torture report reminded everyone of the horror we left behind when we elected this President and threw the evil B*$h/Cheney regime in the dustbin of history.
Maxx44 December 19th, 2014 at 18:16
Actually it was the Cheney/Rove regime. W was a sock puppet.
William December 18th, 2014 at 22:38
Oh….and by the way.
William December 18th, 2014 at 23:38
Oh….and by the way.
burqa December 18th, 2014 at 22:42
Very nicely put, Mr. Shapiro. I would add that one result of these things and others is greater division in the GOP and the encouragement of the establishment Republicans to take on the Tea Party more directly.
All are definite ‘wins’ for the American people.
burqa December 18th, 2014 at 23:42
Very nicely put, Mr. Shapiro. I would add that one result of these things and others is greater division in the GOP and the encouragement of the establishment Republicans to take on the Tea Party more directly.
All are definite ‘wins’ for the American people.
cecilia January 1st, 2015 at 17:07
the man just works…… unrelentingly, Persistently, triumphantly
cecilia January 1st, 2015 at 18:07
the man just works…… unrelentingly, Persistently, triumphantly