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Winners Winstimulus package proves, Obama gets more political clout as he continues to do things for our country. Newton-Small, January 8, 2009 (Jay Newton-Small, Obama’s Stimulus: Jump-Starting his Long-Term Agenda, http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1870321,00.html, July 26, 2011) As qualms about the debt take a backseat to worries about a depression, the scope of the stimulus plan has grown to include everything from expanding Pell grants for college students and health care for the unemployed to investment in renewable energy. Instead of temporary measures meant to prop up the sagging economy over the next two years, much of what has been proposed looks like a laundry list of Obama campaign promises. If the plan is passed, Obama will get, in one fell swoop, a running start on large swaths of his long-term agenda, the ultimate cost of which no one yet knows. Victories increase capital.
Winners win on controversial policies. Ornstein 1 (Norman, American Enterprise Institute, “How is Bush Governing?” May 15, http://www.aei.org/events/filter.,eventID.281/transcript.asp) The best plan is to pick two significant priorities, things that can move relatively quickly. And in an ideal world, one of them is going to be a little bit tough, where it's a battle, where you've got to fight, but then your victory is all the sweeter. The other matters but you can sweep through fairly quickly with a broad base of support and show that you're a winner and can accomplish something. Bush did just that, picking one, education, where there was a fairly strong chance. Something he campaigned on, people care about, and a pretty strong chance that he could get a bill through with 80, 85 percent support of both houses of Congress and both parties. And the other that he picked, and there were other choices, but he picked the tax cuts. What flows from that as well is, use every bit of political capital you have to achieve early victories that will both establish you as a winner, because the key to political power is not the formal power that you have. Your ability to coerce people to do what they otherwise would not do. Presidents don't have a lot of that formal power. It's as much psychological as it is real. If you're a winner and people think you're a winner, and that issues come up and they’re tough but somehow you're going to prevail, they will act in anticipation of that. Winners win. If it looks like you can't get things done, then you have a steeply higher hill to climb with what follows. And as you use your political capital, you have to recognize that for presidents, political capital is a perishable quality, that it evaporates if it isn't used. That's a lesson, by the way, George W. Bush learned firsthand from his father. That if you use it and you succeed, it's a gamble, to be sure, you'll get it back with a very healthy premium. Link Turns – Plan Popular w/ Senator HallNASA popular with Senator, Ralph Hall Hall, Chairman of the Science and Technology Committee in the Senate (Ralph Hall, Promoting an ambitious goal for space exploration and stable funding for NASA, http://ralphhall.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=54§iontree=5,54, July 27, 2011) While cutting unnecessary spending is important, it is equally important to prioritize programs that provide a good return on investment. NASA, whose budget represents only one half of one percent of the total federal budget, is estimated to contribute $257 billion/year to the U.S. economy and provide approximately half-a-million skilled American jobs through NASA programs and the contractors who support them. It is vital that America continues to support an ambitious space program. On the 40th Anniversary of the Moon Landing, it is clear that America’s leadership in exploration and research translates into economic opportunities, national security, secure manufacturing jobs, and an increased standard of living for all Americans. Link Turns – Plan Popular w/ PublicPopular opinion is that the space program should be fostered. Whittington’11, author of The Last Moonwalker, Children of Apollo and Nocturne, writer (Mark, New Poll Has Contradictory Findings for Public Support of NASA Space Exploration, http://news.yahoo.com/poll-contradictory-findings-public-support-nasa-space-exploration-164100958.html, July 27, 2011) Among the findings of the IBD/TIPP poll on space and NASA: * 56 percent of the American people oppose ending the space shuttle program, an opinion that tracks equally among Republicans, Democrats and independents. * 78 percent of the American people believe that it is either very or somewhat important for the United States to remain a leader in space exploration. * 72 percent of the American people do not believe that President Barack Obama has a clear plan for space exploration. That includes 58 percent of Democrats and 75 percent of Independents. * 75 percent believe that the United States government should play either an active or leading role in space exploration, with only 23 percent suggesting that the government only play a supporting role for private industry. * 52 percent believe that the space program is worth its cost. Directory: file -> view view -> Western Europe after wwii view -> Author study: paul fleischman view -> Qpa1 7ela study Guide view -> Arctic Oil/Gas Neg view -> November 1970 Approximately 150,000-500,000 deaths Bhola Cyclone Bangladesh view -> Grade Level: 6 Unit of Study: Caribbean glce view -> Citation: Duffield, Katy view -> Table of Contents Lesson # view -> Chinese Wind Energy Disad Download 0.85 Mb. Share with your friends:
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