Paul Krugman: Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

The usual dour Paul Krugman is very upbeat on the course Obama is setting.

"Elections have consequences. President Obama’s new budget represents a huge break, not just with the policies of the past eight years, but with policy trends over the past 30 years. If he can get anything like the plan he announced on Thursday through Congress, he will set America on a fundamentally new course.

The budget will, among other things, come as a huge relief to Democrats who were starting to feel a bit of postpartisan depression. The stimulus bill that Congress passed may have been too weak and too focused on tax cuts. The administration’s refusal to get tough on the banks may be deeply disappointing. But fears that Mr. Obama would sacrifice progressive priorities in his budget plans, and satisfy himself with fiddling around the edges of the tax system, have now been banished."

This is the time in our history to really tackle health care in America. Since the country was left in shambles after Bush, it is up to the Center Left and Obama to rebuild it.

Source: NYT