Sen. Cardin: Dems, Obama Never Connected BP Spill To The Need For Climate Change Legislation

The reality is that the single-payer plan was NEVER gonna pass, period.

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No amount of your repeating that makes it true.



Obama came into office with the wind at his back, with more people having voting for him, a black man in good old rac!$t America, than ever in the history of the US. They did it because of his ability to persuade that he was going to change the system, end the corporatocracy, lobbyism in government -- He was going to be the People's president, and not a corporate t00I.



Obama, Mr. Personality, came into office with more good will, more wind at his back, more political capital than ANY previous president.



And what did he do with that political capital?



He sat on it.



Obama has been absent on every issue. He went AWOL on healthcare reform, saying, "Oh, that's Congress's job", all the while he was undercutting the congressional committees writing legislation, cutting secret deals with phRma, the AMA and hospitals. At the end, he emerged and kamikaze-style, rahmed through a massive corporate giveaway with no cost controls, a bill guaranteed to end all public healthcare sooner rather than later.



Obama could have delivered on his promises, but Obama didn't & doesn't want to.



And there will be no "improvements", no public option much less single payer, as long as Obama is in the White House; that was the deal he made.
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