Reading Mort Zuckerman, I am reminded that he is a profoundly dishonest man. But, at the same time, since he is considering running for Senate as a Republican, he actually comes across as candid and fair in comparison to any of his would-be colleagues on the right.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Casual question. I only read the first page and stopped when I got to the part about him spending all his time on health care. Do you think that is an apt charge? I guess I don’t get it because he was not down in the trenches fighting filibusters himself. The reason I think that he did not do a lot about the economy is he did not have any more money to spend on jobs. Once the stimulus started paying out and all the tax cuts, unemployment, COBRA, etc. were starting to be delivered; what more was there to do on jobs/economy? He made several trips to factories to emphasize they were getting money for clean energy projects or something like that. They made school appearances for race to the top. I don’t understand the Villager meme, “he should have concentrated only on the economy.” Sit and watch it?
In relation to U.S. health care Mark Weisbrot writes in the Guardian, Feb. 18 (see also today antiwar.com):
‘Meanwhile, US military spending – by the Congressional Budget Office’s relatively narrow definition of the department of defence budget – reached 5.6% of GDP in 2009. Just before September 11, 2001, the Congressional Budget Office projected this spending for 2009 at 2.4% of GDP.
The difference, over 10 years, is more than four times the ten-year cost of proposed healthcare reform.’
If correct, remarkable, to say the least.