Pelosi To Progressives, Pundits: Don't Blame Us For Senate's Shortcomings

By the way, I'm talking about a president who was a popular leader, who came into the WhiteHouse with more Americans having voted for him & his campaign of CHANGE than had ever voted before in the history of the country. FOR A BLACK MAN IN R@CIST AMERICA. Go figure.



That's PLATINUM political capital, & Obama came into office with a huge amount. So much that the GOP was in a puddle in the gutter outside of the US Capitol. After the 2008 election, Republicans weren't just on the ropes; they were down for the count. What did Obama do? He issued them a pardon.



He blocked all investigations and prosecutions into the Bush administration. Instead of going after Republican leadership in Congress (who made it abundantly clear they had no intention of working on a bipartisan basis with Democrats or Obama), Obama & Rahm Emanuel went after Rush Limbaugh & Sarah Palin, 2 people with no positions in the RepublicanParty.



Throughout the summer debate over healthcare reform, Obama disappeared from the public debate, which was especially onerous during the summer town halls when teabaggers came into prominence & disrupted any real discussion. Obama cut secret deals with Big Insurance, PhRma, hospitals, the AMA, etc., & lied about it.



Obama elevated the TeaParty to prominence, and for specific reasons: To water down legislation, make it Republican-like & deliver to the corporations, & to move the DemocraticParty even farther to the right in order to attract moderate Republican politicians & their
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