Dan Quayle is back in business. Dan Quayle just made himself popular today. Dan Quayle, Former Vice President said President Barack Obama has done a great job having quality national security and economic advisers, however he said it’s not clear yet if the Obama’s Democratic administration will govern more liberally than he campaigned.
Dan Quayle, who served in the first Bush administration said:
“I think his biggest challenge is to tame the left wing of his party. I guess we’ll find out how ‘left’ Obama really is, because he’s going to have to make some very tough decisions where he is either going to have to go with the left wing of his party or stare them down and govern more like (ex-president Bill) Clinton governed, which is sort of center-left.”
According to Quayle, Obama ran a “center-left” campaign to get elected, similar to how Quayle and President George H.W. Bush ran “center-right.”
“That’s the normal situation. Same way with Reagan,” Quayle said in an interview after he finished his opening round Friday in a group with former Notre Dame basketball coach Digger Phelps and television personality Maury Povich. Quayle was playing golf at Lake Tahoe through the weekend at the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship.
“Now I think they will have to make some tough decisions. He knows the deficit is menacing. Whether he is willing to stare down the left wing of his party and say, ‘Guys, we’ve got to get this budget in order before we take on too many things,’ I don’t know.”
Obama has surrounded himself with “good people” to advise on the economy and national security, Quayle said. He singled out as “solid” Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, budget director Peter Orszag and Lawrence Summers, head of the National Economic Council.
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