E. J. Dionne asks, The end of progressive government?
in this Washington Post op ed this morning. As if often the case, Dionne absolutely hits the mark with this one.
The key, in my mind, to his piece, can be seen in this one paragraph, then 3rd in the pieice:
And you wonder: Will President Obama welcome the responsibility of engaging the country in this big argument, or will he shrink from it? Will his political advisers remain robotically obsessed with poll results about the 2012 election, or will they embrace Obama’s historic obligation — and opportunity — to win the most important struggle over the role of government since the New Deal?
reread those words: the most important struggle over the role of government since the New Deal - absolutely on target, because what is at risk is the entire architecture of programs that support the less well off, as Republicans try to shift even more wealth - and power - to the already wealth, powerful, advantaged at the expense of the rest of us.
