GBP: Health Care Reform

As I mentioned in the announcement right before this post, there’ll be many changes coming in the next several days.  I hope to make the process as seamless as possible, but I also like getting down and dirty with the code and also somehow doing things the hard way.  Anyway, this is most likely the last post on The New Age of Politics version 1.  You’ll still come back to the same place for my new posts, lovingly crafted at odd hours of the day for you, but things will look much different around here starting later today.  In fact, you might be looking at the change in motion right now!

Who knows?  Anyway, oh yes, tonight is a continuation of my new series, “The Good, the Bad, and the Presidential”, in which I highlight one of President Obama’s achievements and analyze it with the gift of hindsight!  Tonight, the random achievement picker happened to come up with one that I’ve already written more than enough about.  Aside from reading the title of this post, which one do you think it is?

GBP: The Credit CARD Act

Well, as the first salvo in a burst of blog posts over the next few days, here’s the second installment of my new series of posts called “The Good, The Bad, and the Presidential”.  This regularly-appearing series takes a look back at the various accomplishments made by President Obama in the first half of his term, and provides the same level of analysis longtime readers have come to expect from me.  Without further ado, here’s tonight’s accomplishment:

The Good, The Bad, and the Presidential

Just about halfway into President Obama’s term, and we’ve had one of the most lopsided elections in American history- all based on misconceptions about what has or hasn’t been accomplished.  The media, politicians, their parties, and blogs far less sane than the one you’re currently reading, have spun a lot of things and just not highlighted a lot of things that have gotten done over the past two years despite a Congress that became infamous for not being able to get things done.

At the end of the day, everything goes by the President, and are often labeled as his accomplishments, or pieces of his agenda that have gotten through.  I’m sure some of you have heard about the site that has sprang up in recent days called “WTF Has President Obama Done So Far”; it’s great for listing his accomplishments, but there’s zero analysis to it whatsoever.

That’s where I come in: Each installment of this regular section, while I haven’t decided on a frequency yet, will have a short statement of something that has been accomplished over the last two years.  Of course, there’ll be the analysis of the accomplishment that you’ve come to expect from me, as well as where it stands now- what it looks like going into the 112th Congress and the broader future.  Without further ado, here’s the inaugural edition: