Detail Crunch time; Barack Obama's next two years   Oleh:  [s.n] Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 398 no. 8718 (Feb. 2011), page 21-24. Topik: Strange and unpredictable; American politics; Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.64 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel Strange and unpredictable are the ups and downs of American politics. On Capitol Hill this week Barack Obama gave the state-of-the-union speech that launches the second half of his first term as president. He told the nation that America had broken the back of the recession and had now to "out-innovate, out-educate, and outbuild the rest of the world", tackle the deficit, reform the government and become "the best place on earth to do business." It was a surprisingly confident performance from the same battered and bruised president who only last November had sullenly to admit, after the Republicans wrested the House from the Democrats in the mid-term elections, that the voters had delivered a "shellacking". What has restored the apparent spring to the presidential step? After the thumping of the mid-terms, the man who had developed flat feet suddenly got his moves back. First, in December, came a crafty piece of deal-making over taxes. Mr Obama dropped his plan to raise taxes on the rich and extended the Bush-era cuts for everyone, thereby maddening his own left wing but talking the Republicans into a slug of new borrowing that will help stimulate the economy (though adding to the deficit) and his own chances of re-election in 2012. Then, and still before the newly elected 112th Congress started work, came a spate of victories: repeal of the ban on gays serving openly in the armed forces and ratification of the New START deal with Russia. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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