What Obama should have done in 2009

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

1. Only slightly bigger stimulus, but no personal income tax cuts as part of it.

2. Tread water on health reform, and focus on jobs and housing from the beginning. HR was important, but when people are losing their livelihoods and their homes, health reform was not at the top of the agenda. So direct stimulus at infrastructure projects and undertake some kind of moratorium on foreclosures to ensure correct practices are being applied... increased foreclosures = low property values = less property taxes for state/local governments, that also drives down consumer spending and confidence and slows the economy.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

OK... my basic point is that if the president had acted on jobs and housing and gotten the good-will of the American people, it could have made a) passing healthcare easier and b) made the 2010 midterms a little less bloody for the Dems.

In fact that was my view at the time.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

OK... my basic point is that if the president had acted on jobs and housing and gotten the good-will of the American people, it could have made a) passing healthcare easier and b) made the 2010 midterms a little less bloody for the Dems.

In fact that was my view at the time.

If you're responding to my long thing above, the comment was directed at the article, not you.

I knew that, I just wanted to put my comments in context with yours.