Obama Advisers Ponder Ad Campaign Against GOP That Points To Rise Of Tea Party
Monday, September 20, 2010
Overhauling campaign finance reform isn't on Obama's or Democrats' agenda.
It's not anything that they campaigned on, and it's been off the table since HAVA passed after the 2000 election theft. That's how it works in DC. It's why there won't be any move to meaningful healthcare reform, no public option, for another generation. That's what Obama's 'healthcare reform' legislation did -- It got real and meaningful healthcare reform off the table.
And why would overhauling campaign finance reform be on Obama's and Democrats' agenda?
Obama got more corporate money than any other candidate in history. Democrats, too.
I'm afraid that you're making presumptions about the character of people who you don't know. You presume things about them, their intentions, based on limited information that has been put through filters to make them into a product which is sold to you like any other product on a supermarket shelf.
The proof of this is their actions. Is there anything that Obama and the DLC-controlled Congress has done that resembles Democratic policies or ideology?
Obama and Democrats today (and Democrats for the past couple of decades, or since the DLC took over control of the Democratic Party) are promoting Republican policies. You forget that Democratic politicians voted along with Republicans to support George W. Bush's policies. Democrats all but disappeared during the Bush administration (Barbara Boxer wrote mystery novels while collecting a salary from the Senate; Patrick Leahy got to act in a movie about his favorite comic book hero, Batman, while collecting his salary from the Senate).
Democrats should have been working to obstruct Bush and block Republicans every way they could, but they actually argued on behalf of Bush. How many times did we hear Democrats defend Bush's nominations on everything from cabinet posts to judges, citing "executive branch rights", "A president deserves to have whomever he wants on his cabinet" or "on the Supreme Court"? Out of Democrats' mouths!
Democrats did it and had as their talking points to quiet dissent among the base of the Democratic Party, "The pendulum will swing back and Democrats will be in power and get these rights, and make it all right again".
But when Democrats got back into power, they didn't do that. They aren't doing that. Democrats in Congress have refused to perform their Constitutionally required responsibility of overseeing the executive branch, both during Bush (after 2006) and now under Obama. Between Henry Waxman, Joe Lieberman, Patrick Leahy, Jay Rockefeller, Democrats have been co-conspirators with Republicans.
And why wouldn't Democrats change, do anything differently when there are apologists, people like Obama's 'most ardent supporters', who keep his and their numbers high, who keep reelecting them no matter what their treachery. "Because the Republicans are worse" -- That's some mantra. It's no different than Bushies voting for Republicans because 0samaB!nLaden's picture gets flashed at them all over the media the weekend before elections.
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