A stimulus too small to significantly reduce unemployment, a TARP that didn’t trickle down to Main Street, financial reform that doesn’t fundamentally restructure Wall Street, and health-care reforms that don’t promise to bring down health-care costs have all created an enthusiasm gap. They’ve fired up the right, demoralized the left, and generated unease among the general population.

Robert Reich: The Origins of the Enthusiasm Gap  (via marco)

I’ve been nodding my head to Reich for the past couple of years, and this one little paragraph is about as close to a perfect summation of Obama’s first two years as anything I’ve read.

I am sure I’m not the only one to refer to our President’s modus operandi as Goldilocks politics, but it is certainly striking how Obama seems to consistently strive for something that’s neither too big nor too small (stimulus, Afghanistan, health care, financial reform, Bush-era tax cuts).

In my experience, the middle of the road is the worst place to be. Go right with the flow, go left with the flow, or stand in the middle and get hit by both streams of traffic.

Source: robertreich

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