...and you don't seem to understand the budget very well either.
1,2 and 10 are cosmetic measures.
1: About as significant as Bush trumpeting how Christianity is important. It heartens people who agree with that ruling but has almost NO impact on anyone today and probably not anytime during his term. I officially bet you $50.00 that by the end of his term, no new life saving therapies from foetal stem cell research will have come into use.
On 2, Obama quietly has started adopting the Bush language again, stealthily. He started using "enemy combatant" again after dropping the term. He started using "enhanced interrogation" again instead of torture. More importantly, he has had his lawyers EXPLICITLY ENDORSE the Bush theory of the "invincible executive". His lawyers said the executive has no limits on its power save for what the executive determines. The House, Senate and Courts can go spin. This is not the declaration of a man who is serious about reversing the stain of Guatanamo. You notice he still hasn't resolved what to DO with them. If he sends them to Bagram that is not exactly an improvement. (Bagram's where most of the "unfortunate fatalities" during "enhanced interrogation" have happened lately)
On 10, have you heard him do anything to reverse the Bush deregulation by executive orders of environmental protection measures? To me that's the barometer of his true colors. He'll pass a carbon tax and push recycling...and those things don't matter. Recycling just extends the productive value of resources. If we don't use radically less, we're going to drown in our own waste. One of my friends noticed in his area, the motto is "Recycle, re-use, reduce" instead of the opposite, which stresses the primacy of "REDUCE". A carbon tax only matters if it makes people use green technology or take environmental measures. I've yet to hear a proposal that way which would accomplish that. Its just an excuse to push the middle and lower classes down.
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Date: 2009-04-29 04:28 am (UTC)1,2 and 10 are cosmetic measures.
1: About as significant as Bush trumpeting how Christianity is important. It heartens people who agree with that ruling but has almost NO impact on anyone today and probably not anytime during his term. I officially bet you $50.00 that by the end of his term, no new life saving therapies from foetal stem cell research will have come into use.
On 2, Obama quietly has started adopting the Bush language again, stealthily. He started using "enemy combatant" again after dropping the term. He started using "enhanced interrogation" again instead of torture. More importantly, he has had his lawyers EXPLICITLY ENDORSE the Bush theory of the "invincible executive". His lawyers said the executive has no limits on its power save for what the executive determines. The House, Senate and Courts can go spin. This is not the declaration of a man who is serious about reversing the stain of Guatanamo. You notice he still hasn't resolved what to DO with them. If he sends them to Bagram that is not exactly an improvement. (Bagram's where most of the "unfortunate fatalities" during "enhanced interrogation" have happened lately)
On 10, have you heard him do anything to reverse the Bush deregulation by executive orders of environmental protection measures? To me that's the barometer of his true colors. He'll pass a carbon tax and push recycling...and those things don't matter. Recycling just extends the productive value of resources. If we don't use radically less, we're going to drown in our own waste. One of my friends noticed in his area, the motto is "Recycle, re-use, reduce" instead of the opposite, which stresses the primacy of "REDUCE". A carbon tax only matters if it makes people use green technology or take environmental measures. I've yet to hear a proposal that way which would accomplish that. Its just an excuse to push the middle and lower classes down.