Frank Rich might get his wish

ROS sent me a link to this morning’s bladder venting from Frank Rich entitled “What Happened to Change We Can Believe In?“. It begins like he wants to praise Obama for the our recovering economy and he’s not getting enough credit for being the miracle worker that Obama is;

PRESIDENT Obama, the Rodney Dangerfield of 2010, gets no respect for averting another Great Depression, for saving 3.3 million jobs with stimulus spending, or for salvaging GM and Chrysler from the junkyard. And none of these good deeds, no matter how substantial, will go unpunished….

But what Rich actually does is start bashing Bush and Wall Street and demanding that there be an investigation…that heads roll;

Asked in “Inside Job” why there’s been no systematic investigation of the 2008 crash, [economist Nouriel] Roubini answers: “Because then you’d find the culprits.”

We can blame much of this turn of events on the deep pockets of oil billionaires like the Koch brothers and on the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which freed corporations to try to buy any election they choose. But the Obama White House is hardly innocent. Its failure to hold the bust’s malefactors accountable has helped turn what should have been a clear-cut choice on Nov. 2 into a blurry contest between the party of big corporations and the party of business as usual.

Yup, see it’s Obama’s fault because he didn’t go ahead with investigations…but Rich implies that the investigations would find the culpability in the nefarious circles of Bush/Wall Street cronies who plotted to bring down the economy. To what benefit we have yet to hear. Seems to me that a strong economy would be more beneficial to rich folks and corporations. And since when does “Hope and Change” include kangaroo courts and show trials for the political benefit of Democrats at election time?

But Rich might get his way and the culprits may still get their just desserts. After all, we’ve already got rid of Chris Dodd in Connecticut, Barney Franks is floundering in Massachusetts. It seems to me that the voters have conducted their own investigation and are prepared to mete out some justice next Tuesday. Be careful what you wish for, Frankie.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Economy, Liberals suck