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Interesting piece by the conservative pundit Charles Krauthammer in last week’s Washington Post. The money-line is when he describes President Obama’s plan to deal with America’s worsening economic crisis, a plan which Obama always pledges will involve heavy reform to the nation’s education, environment, and healthcare regimes, as “greatest non sequitur ever foisted upon the American people.”
There are many roots of the economic mess, Krauthammer writes, “but the causes of the collapse of the financial system does not include the absence of universal health care, let alone of computerized medical records. Nor the absence of an industry-killing cap-and-trade carbon levy. Nor the lack of college graduates.”
It’s good for the President to have a plan to address America’s woes. But some cause-and-effect logic is required as well. At the end of the day a leader’s first priority should be to solve the urgent problems of the present, not simply the more ambitious, long-term problems he may personally find most interesting.
There’s a second story being alluded to in this toon as well:
Obama apparently most teleprompter-dependent president ever.
