How China Could Help Obama Win the Budget Battle by Peter Beinart

How China Could Help Obama Win the Budget Battle

by Peter Beinart

Obama’s budget speech mixed a Clinton-style defense of Medicare with an ingenious play on Americans’ worries about losing their edge to China, writes Peter Beinart. Ususally in American politics, arguing that we should be like other countries is a political loser, but Obama made the case that less government could lead to more decline. Plus, read reactions to the speech from Howard Kurtz, Andrew Sullivan, and other Daily Beast writers.