RadioDoc58ef2c0Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11 | reply to Fox McCloud
Re: So, the world didn't end said by Fox McCloud:Congress was there too..... An excellent compromise (at least IMHO) would have been to stick with the original transition deadline, but increased funding for the coupons and rehonoring all the older coupons... Yes they were...and back at least three years too. Which is why the insipid Obama comments are particularly vapid.
The whole program was mishandled from the start. Nobody wanted to be in charge and therefore no agency wanted to take responsibility. The NTIA got it by default and then managed to make things even worse.
I agree about your compromise, except that the funding extension got lost in the months leading up to the election and all the riveting economic follies. There is plenty of blame to go around on both sides of the aisle, but none for an administration who inherited the mess.
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 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | said by RadioDoc:Which is why the insipid Obama comments are particularly vapid. You forget that it was Obama himself who pushed for the last extension. He deserves all criticism for this.
As we've seen, nothing bad happened with this DTV transition, so clearly, the last extension was not needed.
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RadioDoc58ef2c0Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11 | This was started by Consumer Reports and picked up by the usual suspect Congresscritters. Obama just went along with it.
Just once I'd like to see the political bullshit here contained in one or the other "colored" rooms instead of being allowed to sour just about every discussion on the front page.
As for whether the delay was needed or not, you have no basis for that determination.
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Cleveland, OH | Amen. But it won't everyone that posts here thinks they could run the county better when they can barely run their own toilets. |
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pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | reply to RadioDoc
said by RadioDoc:This was started by Consumer Reports and picked up by the usual suspect Congresscritters. Obama just went along with it. Even if that was true, which it isn't, as it was indeed Obama who called for the extension, that would be an even worse reflection on Obama.
said by RadioDoc:Just once I'd like to see the political bullshit here contained in one or the other "colored" rooms instead of being allowed to sour just about every discussion on the front page. Only because now it is your guy on the receiving end of the criticism, of course. I might remind you that it was you who decided to "blame Bush" for this problem.
said by RadioDoc:As for whether the delay was needed or not, you have no basis for that determination. Out of millions of people affected, only 28k calls? That's a pretty damn good metric of how well it went.
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