Tuesday, June 29, 2010

I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF

Pres. Obama's achievements so far and this Steve Benen post was a lot of help:
Expanded funding for embryonic stem cell research

Lily Ledbetter Law - equal pay for equal work

The Stimulus Bill - kept us out of another Great Depression

Expanded health insurance for children

Hate Crimes Act - to help honor the memory of Matthew Shepard

New global non-proliferation initiative

Overhaul of the student loan program, resulting in lower interest rates

New nuclear arms treaty with Russia

Health Care Reform

Wall Street Reform

2 comments:

Ken Hoop said...

Well, the word "achievements" can be taken also as short term/ ephemeral, accepting a vague premise which,granted you didn't necessarily mean.

BP catastrophe, war, Gitmo, violation of civil liberties are continuation of Bush-Cheney policies and most of O's declining poll numbers involve positions and challenges not sparked by nor likely to be dealt with effectively by any hypothetical GOP mainstream challengers.

Ken Hoop said...

http://www.counterpunch.org/redmond06292010.html

dissent on health care achievement.