Leading liberal writer Robert Kuttner is upset at the right wing's hijacking of popular rage against dire economic conditions. Health care reform has become the target of anger thanks to the brutal "framing" of the issue by extremist rightist zealots backed by "economic royalists".
President Obama, Robert Kuttner adds, is much to consensual to address this major challenge to his policies. The analogy can be made with the European social-democrats who seem "missing in action" in most countries (from Spain to France) or squeezed between a new "Old left" like Die Linke in Germany and rightwing populist leaders that attract the "hard hat" vote.
Read his column here
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/17/AR2009081702363.html?wpisrc=newsletter
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