[ITSALLABOUTMEMAN] Re: Go big, Mr. President

 

Dear Ms. vanden Heuvel,

I gave you the same advice (http://mattlove1.blogspot.com/2014/11/itsallaboutmeman-re-president-obama.html) I gave the folks at Credo who seem to want more the same thing - Obama to pour out his awfulness on our nation. My advice is "give it a rest." He's done enough damage already, and he hasn't listened to you for 6 years, and he won't listen to you for the next 2, he's going to be doing as much harm as he can to poor and working people, and as much favorable actions he can for his fellow rich people.

Of course, your once worthy publication, like Mother Jones, has become a mouthpiece for the Democratic  Party. It's times like this I most miss Alexander Cockburn. He would have had some choice things to say about your ridiculous letter.

On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 10:05 AM, The Nation Magazine <emails@emails.thenation.com> wrote:

On election night, Nation editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel challenged President Obama to "draw the line in the sand this week. "As soon as the results were clear, she posted this piece: "The Democrats Lost Big Tonight. Why Obama Should Double Down." "The Obama administration should act right away to use its executive powers to take steps to deal with long-ignored issues that need to be dealt with for the good of the nation." While mainstream media coverage was buying into GOP talking points and writing the president off as a lame duck, The Nation offered up an independent dose of reality. "Sixth-year setbacks are common for presidents. And Obama need not let this one define him." "President Obama should embrace good progressive public policy while expecting—indeed, hoping for—a massive outcry from the wing-nut section of the GOP," vanden Heuvel wrote. Among her prescriptions were to "act big—and act fast": start with serious immigration reform; go up to the edge of normalizing relations with Cuba; cancel the Keystone XL pipeline; nominate a diverse set of progressives to fill every judicial vacancy at every level; nominate Tom Harkin to the Federal Reserve Board; and embrace a good jobs initiative. "Pick a fight with Rick Perry and/or Jan Brewer, if need be, and be glad that you're in a high-profile fight with them. Let the right wing come unglued—which they will!—and don't back down when Steve King and Louie Gohmert and Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin start calling for impeachment." The Nation stands apart from other publications in our willingness to expose abuses wherever we see them, and take on a rigged system which is shafting hard-working Americans and privileging America's 1 percent. But we can't do it alone. We need your support. Please consider a low-cost digital subscription to support our journalism. Thank you. Your support makes our work possible.

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Posted by: matt love <mattlove1@gmail.com>

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