Harold Meyerson on All Topics
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“Reducing joblessness, improving our infrastructure and cleaning our air, at no net cost to the federal government, does hold a certain appeal.”
“Like earthquakes, Goldman Sachs can strike anytime.”
“The debate over national health care is old enough to collect Social Security.”
“California can't repudiate its debts. What it can do, however, is raise taxes and tuition and lay off teachers, cops and nurses.”
“In their failure to advance labor's prospects, Democrats condemn themselves to a future of fewer Democratic voters and their nation to a future of mass downward mobility.”
“If we're serious about creating more exports, and more jobs, it's time for our government to help manufacturing.”
“The Democrats have shifted their focus, they tell us relentlessly, to jobs, jobs, jobs. Would that they had.”
“No president has ever delivered so direct a strike to the soft underbelly of contemporary American conservatism, or one that resonates more with Americans’ hopes for their nation.”
“If they want to improve their prospects for November, Democrats need to get serious about jobs.”
“A president with an activist agenda met a Senate all but incapable of action. The mix of big government and no government proved toxic for the Democrats.”
“The filibuster is an affront to the most basic principles of democracy: that majorities govern; that elections matter.”
“There are some provisions in the pending legislation that, if included in the final bill, may well drape Democratic candidates with 'Kick Me' signs come November.”
“If there's a common feature to the political landscapes in which Carter, Clinton and now Obama were compelled to work, it's the absence of a vibrant left movement.”
“The liberal establishmentarians lament the compromises they were compelled to accept but support the bill's passage. In between the two, indignant and stuck, is organized labor.”
“This decade began and ended in dread. It began with Wall Street -- the World Trade Center -- targeted for mass murder. It ends with Main Street fearful and reeling from economic reverses that Wall Street helped create.”