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well that's the problem--your viewpoint seems to exclude multiple types of state action, cyn--you seem to want to see it in only one way and to interpret state action as a type of partisan politics. fact is that in this situation had the state not acted the whole house of cards would have fallen in. fact is that one of the main reasons the patterns of action are as incoherent as they are was that the shit did not wait to hit the fan until obama was in office, so he finds himself stuck with a series of poorly designed, very large=scale actions that came out of the endgame of the bush period. there's no debate about this, btw: this is simply a matter of record.
it isn't the case that the state is simply a giant individual whose actions have to operate like yours and mine, simply because the state is in a position to create money. there are constraints around that, but in the end, the state can do it and you and i cannot. so it isn't the case that all state instruments have to be understood in the way that you frame them, nor is it the case that the way the obama administration is acting so far is deliberately partisan.
what i see instead is a very significant political Problem unfolding for the right and a whole series of empty positions staked out with reference to obama with the sole objective of doing brand triage. this seems transparent to me.
btw i am not an unequivocal fan of obama at all--i think he should be moving to totally marginalize the right, that there needs to be a coherent plan behind state actions, clear objectives---the main obstacles to that remain the incoherence of the bush administration when the shit hit the fan, and the fact that these actions persist.
you wanna see something interesting, though--track what's happening with the imf.
fundamentally, the important actions are happening at a transnational level.
the american conservative movement--as a movement--is fighting the wrong battle, fundamentally.
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