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Democrats Need to Back Obama

Friday, December 10, 2010

The pushback we're finally seeing from Americans, the kind of uprising we're seeing by Democrats in Congress, is what real leadership (leaders who are on your side and fighting for you) waits for their entire lives.

When the polls are with you, when the people are up in arms, when every single member on your side of the aisle in the House votes 'No Confidence­' in your plan, YOU RUN WITH IT!

But not Obama.

Because Obama is not on 'our' side.

This is what I've been talking about, how when Obama came into office with tons of political capital and a mandate for CHANGE, a filibuster­-proof Democratic caucus, forward momentum and the wind at his back, he dug in his heels, did a 180-degree turn, and sloooooowe­d everything down to a crawl.  

With 2 members of the Democratic caucus in the Senate at de@th's door (Kennedy & Byrd), Obama blew any chance of moving the Democratic agenda that had just won the 2008 election forward.
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