Barack Obama and the Changing Political Landscape

the ENTIRE GOP are also corporate wh@res.

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As is the DLC-controlled Democratic Party.



Obama could have done to Lieberman and the Blue Dogs what he did to Dennis Kucinich, when Kucinich (the last hold-out on the Progressive Caucus, all of whom had pledged to vote for a healthcare bill only if it had a public option, and who all caved) was opposing him. Obama flew to Cleveland, rallied Kucinich's constituents against him & he got Kucinich's vote.



Where was that mentality with Joe Lieberman, Blanche Lincoln, the other Blue Dogs & even Olympia Snowe?



If the president of the United States had used the bully pulpit against them, a lot of progressives would have respected that and said, "You tried your best".



But Obama didn't try. He cut a deal (& lied about it, too). Months earlier, cutting the will of the People off at the knees. The public was powerless in the backroom deal.



It was like many other deals that Obama has cut in the last 2 years and they all look remarkably similar. They all favor corporations over the American people. From the $20 billion deal that we now learn is really $3 billion, non-securitized, non-contractual, and predicated on another deal where BP gets to continue risky and dangerous drilling in sensitive deep waters, to the deal he made with Arlen Specter, to throw the weight of the White House behind his election campaign in the primary over real Democrats.
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