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Despite their consumerism these attacks workexcluding its network exclusively Internet vendorsBut all of these reasons remain shorttermSo the success of his entrepreneurial projectas a Grand Paris stretching to harbour projectsThe Government digests including not the 1 This inscription is the work of Ernest tRenault client would escape that bottom trendA historic moment for the paddled companyIt is true also that Erdogan would double trade with the Iran by a yearSix months after his accession to the White House, the US President is obliged to put its political weight in the balance to advance reforms. Wednesday Press Conference, interviews TV series, debates in the country (it was in Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday), meetings with officials of the pharmaceutical laboratories, multiple consultations with legislators of all edge, Barack Obama seeks to snatching its reform of the health (read below). But Harry Reid, the leader of the majority in the Senate, announced yesterday in the afternoon that the upper Chamber not would not the text before the end of the session this summer.
The new administration, launched steam locomotive any since late January, was able to move more than a dozen major legislation ($ 787 billion stimulus, statute on climate...) but the workings are beginning to grind.
Republicans have taken from the hair of the beast and promised that the health-care reform would be the "Waterloo" of the President. Conservative Democrats, the "blue dogs", are praying, arguing that the Federal deficit (1,000 billion) likely to grow much more. Public opinion finally, begins to show signs of impatience.
Erosion of support
According to a survey "Washington post" - ABC published earlier this week, the Americans approve the action of the President at 59. The number is significant, but it is the first time that Barack Obama slips below the 60, and it is six points less than a month earlier (see opposite). Above all, the approval rate on its way to manage the health réforme fell from 57 in April to 49 today, and it stood at only 47 when it comes to the budget deficit. The degradation of the finances of the State has become a new issue that force, despite himself, the political calendar of the President. He had to promise to tackle, at the end of the year or early next year, to the more expensive programs of the federal budget: Medicare and social security (pensions), Medicaid, the plans of health for the needy and the elderly. However, the surveyed are satisfied to 52 of its conduct of the economy. If there is nothing really catastrophic in these figures, they have influenced the White House strategy. The President resumed a campaign tone, with a very focused speech on the middle class, and criticised Washington holds supported way.
In wanting to accelerate things and to obtain a vote before the end of the parliamentary session beginning of August, Obama was the risque to have a reform that did would that name both the compromises made for the passage of text can reduce the substance. Aware of the danger, he said Wednesday that he was prepared to wait further provided that the final text fits its initial ambition and that he strike nor the public deficit. But this is not without risk. The Republicans can win the time needed for better organizing their opposition and kill reform in the egg. This tactic is also challenged in the democratic clan. "I fear that we let pass the opportunity by trying to win a few votes," explained Christopher Dodd, Chairman of the Committee on health in the Senate, the "Financial Times" yesterday.
