Thanks Miguel for this diary - very sobering... "Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia
Wish there was a real dither going on.
Krugman thinks it's probably a one-shot deal, since the combination of lost public confidence and Republican sabotage will make a second program into a very, very hard sell.
The only chance I see is a real popular mobilization behind a workable program- of which there seem to be several. And popular mobilization was supposed to be O's strong suit. I am on his e-mail volunteer list, and his attempts to mobilize the troops are pathetic.
I Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.