Was President Barack Obama’s visit to Congress yesterday an exercise in futility in an effort to promote bipartisanship — sowing seeds that will never grow? Or did he sow seeds that could grow, but not immediately? If you look at a wide variety of media, how did he fare? If there are changes to his economic stimulus proposal to accommodate Republican concerns, when would they occur? Details are HERE.
UPDATE: Here’s NBC Political Director Chuck Todd’s take on what happened, placed in the context of the House vote today:
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UPDATE II: And how fast will the impact of the stimulus plan be? USA Today notes: “Some of his favorite proposals, however, will take years to have full impact.”
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.