Priorities

clipped from ace.mu.nu Well, check out this stunning admission by a member of Obama's inner circle. Buried -- buried -- at the very end of a Politico piece. In the end, Obama believes, forward motion on his agenda matters more than any details. “Even if we’re busting the budget, we’ve got to solve some of these problems,” said a member of his inner circle. “I’d rather live with a debt than have people go without health care.” Well! That's a pretty major confession -- that despite his protestations, fixing the economy is not Obama's top priority. Advancing his ideological agenda is. And if that conflicts with the need to avert an economic catastrophe -- oh well, can't make an omelet, etc. This isn't the first such admission the press has yawned at. Rahm Emmanuel announced his desire to use a legitimate crisis as pretext to advance an ideological agenda when he remarked one must " never let a crisis go to waste." But the press yawns.