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发帖数: 29846 | 1 9:20 PM, Mar 21, 2015 • By DANIEL HALPER
President Obama insisted in an interview with the Huffington Post that "by
hook or by crook" he'll be a successful president. He made the comments in
answering a question about whether he'd become a "more progressive president
over time."
"No," Obama said to the question, he had not become more progressive. "I
think that what we are constantly doing is looking for opportunities to
advance the agenda that I talked about back in 2007 and 2008. I mean,
remember, in the first two years of my administration we advanced more
progressive legislation than anybody in 50 years.
"The Recovery Act, which everybody has forgotten about, which helped saved
the economy and prevented us going into the Great Depression, was the
largest investment in green technology, the largest investment in education.
We rebuilt roads and bridges. It was larger by a significant margin than
the New Deal in real dollars and put us on a pathway for clean energy
development, put us on a pathway for electronic medical records. All kinds
of stuff that people forgot about.
"The Affordable Care Act, which is working better than even I thought it was
going to work, and we now have 16 million-plus people who are benefiting
directly from having health insurance, and we have another 130 million who
don't have to worry about losing their coverage because of pre-existing
conditions. Millions of young people who are on their parents' plan. Those
are pretty progressive.
"What we have done though is consistently looked for additional
opportunities to get stuff done. Wherever we see a possibility of increasing
wages, creating more jobs, making sure that more people are able to access
opportunity, we're gonna seize it. And we're going to, wherever possible,
try to reach out to Republicans and see if they can work with us. And where
they're not willing to work with us, we will do it administratively or we
will convene the private sector. |
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