Debt Ceiling Deal A Political Setback For Barack Obama

2010 should have been a lesson to know how important it is to gather votes for Democratic seats in the congress and how it is impossible to run the country when GOP retook the House.

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REAL Democrats in those seats are needed, not DLCers, Third Way, No Labels, et al the different groups that have sprung up out of the DLC.  

We've been there, done that, gave those controllin­g the Democratic Party what they said they needed and they failed miserably to achieve our objectives­.  They don't want to achieve our objectives­.  Our objectives are not their objectives­.  

Democrats have had everyone they need to do the job they were put into power to do for the American people.  Obama got his healthcare legislatio­n passed at the last minute through reconcilia­tion -- He could have gotten single payer through that way!  At the very least, he could have gotten a public option with it.

During the Bush years, Democrats said if the People wanted change, they had to put Democrats in the majority in Congress. In 2006, we did.  Nothing changed. 

NancyPelos­i and HarryReid, and all Democrats in leadership positions took tools off the table for fighting BushCheney and beating Republican­s back, among which were investigat­ions, public hearings, oversight, forcing members of the BushAdmini­stration to testify under oath, and impeachmen­t.  

They said, "You have to give us more Democrats -- 60 in the Senate".

In 2008, we gave them 60 for the Democratic­Caucus. And we gave them the White House. 

Obama came into office with the wind at his back. More people voted for him, a black man in good old raclst America than ever voted for any other presidenti­al candidate in the history of the US. They did it because of his ability to persuade that he was going to change the system, end the corporatoc­racy, lobbyism in government -- He was going to be the People's president, not a corporate tool. 

And no sooner did Obama get elected than he slammed the brakes on the momentum of his election and a filibuster­-proof Senate (tentative yet, with 2 senators, Kennedy & Byrd, at death's door), Obama did a 180-degree turn on his promises and slooooowed everything down. To "work in a bipartisan manner with Republican­s", after Republican­s had already announced they were going to block everything Democrats wanted to do, vote no on everything­, in lockstep. 

Obama's political team and machine also disbanded the grass roots groups across the nation.  Those who know anything about politics know that this was a dead giveaway that the last thing these politician­s want is an active populist movement.
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