The holidays are long over. Real life has begun again, but not quite. We are all holding our breath. Tuesday we will have a new President and we will all exhale...a little.
Hope is springing everywhere for this administration, from friends and foes alike, despite the dire financial problems we face. Every realist, every well-balanced mind, accepts that we will sink or swim together, that to obstruct for venal reasons is self-destructive. Still, there must continue to be opposition where it is deserved, and continuing fearlessness in risking unpopularity when opposition is required. We already have a cult of personality, we cannot encourage it to grow. Therein would lie the single most dangerous risk for the country.
I like what I have seen so far. Not all the Cabinet appointments suit me, but they don't offend me either. I see no immediate lurch to the left, but that may well be because we have already lurched with huge financial payoffs cum State control. Time alone will make that clearer.
I am willing to wait and watch. President Obama may well have more problems with his own party than he will with me. To date the most frightening thing I have heard bruited about is that Sandy Berger, the National Archives thief(see my earlier blog), is going to be somehow involved in this administration. This man belongs in jail. If he is being "rehabilitated" it speaks to real corruption somewhere, possibly in both parties. I'll let that go for now and wait to see if his rehab is a fact not an unfounded rumor!
Now, putting negatives aside, I am going to enjoy the historic moment Tuesday will bring. People of color around the world have been uplifted by this choice, this victory of mind over ignorance, this restatement of the essential goodwill and good sense this nation shows in the clutch.
Like millions of others here and around the world, I wish President Obama great success in aiding the country in this time of stress, and his family a successful and happy life in Washington. We will all be watching, hoping and repeating to ourselves that Yes, we can! And indeed, we must. All of us, here and around the world are depending on it.
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Pelosi, Reid have "failed," Shuler says
Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C) has further ingratiated himself with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — not — by declaring that Pelosi and Harry Reid "failed" the bipartisanship test on stimulus.
"In order for us to get the confidence of America, it has to be done in a bipartisan way," Shuler said in Raleigh following an economic forum, according to the AP.
"We have to have everyone — Democrats and Republicans standing on the stage with the administration — saying, 'We got something done that was efficient, stimulative and timely.'"
Here's the kicker: "I truly feel that's where maybe House leadership and Senate leadership have really failed."
Shuler, rumored to be mulling a '10 Senate run, was one of 11 House Democrats to vote "no" on the stimulus and was already deep in Pelosi's doghouse. Now he'll have to build a Harry Reid wing.
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