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Sunday 27 May 2012

New broom

Ian Leslie - whose book on the presidential campaign is now in the shops - gives his verdict on the scrap over the stimulus bill:

Obama's biggest error was being excessively deferential towards his colleagues in the legislature...  Landing in the Oval Office on a wave of goodwill, he forgot that no amount of warm feeling will overcome basic political reality... It was only last week that Obama started to get more aggressive with the bill's opponents, and remembered that the skills he used during the campaign might actually help him to govern too... Having said all that - the bill looks as though it will pass, which means the new administration will have a big legislative accomplishment under its belt already. Flawed though it is, that represents a major victory for the new president. And if he learns from the process, it'll help him pass the rest of an ambitious domestic agenda. I think he will learn.

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