In “The Price of Politics,” Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Woodward sets as his goal an examination of how President Obama and congressional Republicans failed in a bid to craft a comprehensive plan to control the US deficit and put the economy on a more stable course.
The book aims to cover the 3½-year period from just before Obama’s 2009 inauguration through the middle of last year, but the centerpiece — and the lion’s share of Woodward's reportage — follows last summer’s rancorous, 11th-hour face-off over raising the federal debt ceiling to avoid a catastrophic default.
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All the more reason to get Obama the heck out of there! This country will just spin wheels until he leaves, his fault or not. We can't create jobs spending $3.5 trillion per year when we only earn $2.5 trillion. You can't create jobs when you tax rich people and businesses. Simple economics 101 and Obama never took the class!!
Woodward lost all credibility with me when he fell all over himself complimenting W after the invasion of Iraq. Then he turned on W when Iraq turned into an expensive murderous mess. There were plenty of people, both civilian and military, warning that Iraq was going to be harder and more expensive than W was promising.
I can't believe the job the military was able to do despite all the incompetence of the senior civilian leadership.
My respect, and thanks to them all, and scorn, defiance, slight regard, and contempt to those who lead them into it, and to those who kissed their expletive.