From day one, Obama schemed to make sure that single payer advocates were blocked from the national discussion and legislative process. And once that was assured (through the dangling of the possibility of it happening later, down the road, through the expansion of a public option which would be part of the current healthcare reform), Obama then worked a secret backroom deal undercutting the congressional committees working on the legislation. In the final weeks, when a public option was about to be slipped in, Obama blocked it. Obama's 'most ardent supporters' still insist Obama is going to get a public option through. They're the only ones who do, and refuse to believe even this.
Obama's been particularly 'oily' (slippery) on all Democratic groups' issues. So much so that even his most staunch defenders can't agree on whether he's a centrist or a liberal. [Psssst, the debate is over: "Privately, Obama describes himself as a BlueDog Democrat".]
The fact is that Republicans can't do anything without Democrats crossing over. Faux Democrats are the problem. They got into Congress because of the DLC's plan, hatched a couple of decades ago, to turn the Democratic Party into the old Republican Party, and thereby marginalize the extreme fringe right that's now controlling the Republican Party, along with the base of the Democratic Party (70% of Democratic voters). All so these power-hungry, greedy DINOs (who couldn't gain traction within the RepublicanParty had they begun their careers there) could prosper from a "centrist" (right-of-center) Democratic Party. Then they'd "govern the country, for 100 years".
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