A few months ago I declined to continue my usual New York Times briefings, as I feared this blog was becoming repetative and predictable. But that was before I returned to the homefront. Seeing that the economy is recovering, and I say that nominally, I figured most people, even those all-too-familair red county yokels, of whom I both abhor and admire, would acknowledge President Obama’s early success and stop lamenting. That is not the case.
Just the other day, one of my co-workers approached me expressing an incredulity towards the administration’s four-month stimulus plan. I told that him he must be in denial, that it was our current president’s persona that he didn’t like (which perhaps baffles me even more) and not the policies. Indeed aggressive monetary spending is very anti-Republican, and big deficits are frightening to everyone; but again, what of the success? It appears to me that the GOP is quite simply, and sadly, in great denial. If we were not running up national deficits we’d be sinking into what Paul Krugman calls a “full-fledged depression.” So, let me redirect you to his article and see for yourself. As the writer Frank Herbert said, “How often is it that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.” To the blue dog democrats: stay the course. Everyone else: have hope, it might be the last great thing humanity owns.
