Reassessing the keys

[pbrower2a]

Prior to reading this thread, I'd never heard of something like "Solyndra" in my life.

Whatever it is about, it's probably not a "major" scandal for that very reason.

Attorneys rarely know anything about accounting or financial analysis. Most can do many things -- medicine of any kind, engineering, scientific research, and accounting generally excluded, and all for good reason. Those are highly specialized to the extent that the people who do them generally sacrifice whatever competence they have in anything else during their training. Physicians, pharmacists, veterinarians, nurses, dentists, chemists, physicists, biologists, systems analysts, engineers, and accountants are smart people, but their learning is incompatible with what the Presidency requires. 

Dubya made a bigger blunder in becoming a more intimate buddy of crooks at Enron, and that did not keep him from winning re-election. This is from someone with an MBA who had poor judgment of the character of people he was dealing with. Sociopathic con-artists bamboozled Dubya; the prospect of scientific and engineering miracles dazzled President Obama.   

[pbrower2a]

I sincerely question whether "Health Care Reform" qualifies as a major change.

It isn't the only one. During the 111th Congress the President got a flurry of legislation passed. For a clear contrast, look at the President that Republicans would love to compare the current President to (Jimmy Carter) and the contrast is clear:

http://obamaachievements.org/list

Some of these aren't legislative, but all in all, this isn't President Carter, whose legislative achievements were effectively nil. It's safe to say that a President who fails to get much legislation passed (like Carter) isn't getting much change enacted. When it came time to choose between Reagan and Carter in 1980, President Carter had to make fresh promises; voters asked themselves "Why didn't he do this by now? He has had four years already!"... and Ronald Reagan had much more credibility.   

He has achieved little in the 112th Congress, but for that one has Congress to fault.  He got more achieved in the Lame Duck session than most Presidents get achieved in a full term. President Obama wins this key. That many people dislike his achievements is little surprise; so it was with the Civil Rights Act and the Great Society.

In achieving legislative change he is more like LBJ than like Jimmy Carter. I can almost predict that he will promise results like those of the 111th Congress... but "It will take your help!"  He can run against the current House majority.