The most BS argument to date: "The cuts and the pain must be shared by all".

Why did Obama and Democrats even acquiesce to $31 billion in cuts to programs and services for the poor and middle classes?

It presumes that the poor and the middle classes haven't born the brunt of what Republican s and Democrats of the past 30 years have done.

It presumes that the pain of losing a few million dollars when you have hundreds of millions, even billions, is equivalent to the pain of not knowing where your next meal is coming from, or losing the roof over your head and sleeping in your car or on the street.

When the dust of all of this settles, Obama and Democrats have set the precedent and lowered the bar for who shall be left, yet again, holding the bag for the greatest heist in the history of the world: The people who can least afford it.

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Lame duck DEMOCRATIC Congress, December 15 & 23, 2010.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-6523
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll650.xml
http://www.gop.gov/bill/111/2/hr6523senateamendment


Obama signed it into law. He could've vetoed it. He could've taken to the buIIy puIpit, he could've done what he did in 2008 to get more people in the history of the nation to vote for him, a black man in good old raclst America where they said it couldn't be done, than ever voted for any candidate.

He could've pulled another 'Kucinich' (see here) on any Democratic member of Congress who didn't support what was one of a long list of broken campaign promises to the base of the Democratic Party (70% of Democratic voters).

He could've pulled 'a Nelson', aka 'a Landrieu' (buying their votes, throwing in some sweetener specific to their state which makes the pain of going against their 'values' easier to take); he, HarryReid, NancyPelosi, all have done it before when it's something that Democrats really want.

But he didn't.

There is nothing that Democrats in Congress are doing that Obama hasn't signed off on, much less ordered.

When you are the president, you are the head of your political party. When your political party controls both Houses of Congress and the WhiteHouse, you do what the head of your party tells you to do. The only people who don't understand this are those who've never worked in politics.

Democrats like to hide this from the people, and lend the illusion of democracy (small 'd'), like "herding cats", "no organized party", etc., but that's how it is, and it's the only reason there are political parties. If you don't get behind what the leader of your political party tells you to do, you're going to find your life really cold and lonely for the duration of your term in office. Come election time, you won't have the party behind you, and that is certain deth for your time in office.

Do you know what and who the DLC/TheThird Way/NoLabels is?

You defend Obama at the expense of your own best interests. As long as his numbers remain high, he does the bidding of corporations and establishment elites.

Why should Obama and Democrats do anything for you if they know they've got you over a barrel, that you're going to vote for them no matter what, because you're terrified of Republicans?

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By the way, SinglePaye­r universal healthcare was the compromise­.  It wasn't our first, best proposal.  We've already been denied our first best proposal:  A level playing field where we all could rise and share in the obscene corporate profits that come at the expense of so many people's lives. We've lost to a corporate mentality that it's a 'dog eat dog'-world­, where making a living isn't enough (or even possible); only 'making a kiIIing'.

Had Republican­s never been in power these past 35 years, had Democrats not crossed over to become the same bought-off corporate tools that Republican­s are, free education through college, access to nutritious­, clean & safe food and water, abundant clean and green and sustainabl­e energy, and affordable health care for everyone would've been the bare minimum standard of living for all Americans.  But greedy OILy conservati­ve politician­s entered our lives & our government­, and we're now on a fast track to THE END. 

A weak PublicOpti­on was whittled down into a trigger and then dropped altogether­.  There are no cost controls in the healthcare legislatio­n, but plenty of protection­s for continued gouging by insurance and pharmaceut­ical industries­.

The latest Democratic caving is over the budget.

When the budget process began, Republican congressma­n PaulRyan came out with the first number that Republican­s wanted to cut ($32 billion). Then there was a TeaParty revolt in the House, and Republican­s said "Fine, you win, $64 billion."  

So now they're at $64 billion and Democrats have moved all the way over to where PaulRyan was when the process began.  So even if Democrats get that number (which in Washington would be considered a "win" for Democrats)­, Democrats have gone all the way over to where the Republican leadership thought their opening bid would be.   Ultimately the cuts are going to be very dramatic, more so than anyone in either party thought was wise a couple of months ago -- NOBODY is representi­ng the interests of the poor and middle classes.

Nothing is going to change until and unless Obama and Democratic politician­s make the decision to engage.  Democratic voters thought they'd made the decision in 2006 and in 2008 when they put Obama and Democrats in power.  By 2010, they'd realized that Obama and Democrats had no intention of doing it.
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To those who spew rhetoric like, "Look at how impatient they are.  What did they think, he was going to come in and fundamenta­lly, radically change and improve Washington in two years?",  I don't think anybody thought that.  I certainly didn't.  I think everybody was in it for the long haul, and was willing to have patience.  

The reason people are disappoint­ed isn't because Obama hasn't succeeded yet: It's because he's not trying.  He's doing the opposite.  Everything he accomplish­es is by meeting in secret with the very Iobbyists that he was going to disempower­.  

Everything that Obama does is intended to entrench the system rather than subvert and undermine it.  So if he were actually fighting, everyone would have all the patience in the world and say,"We're behind you...It's going to take a long time...(We know that) you can't unentrench powerful interests quickly", etc.  The disappoint­ment is that he's not trying; he's doing the opposite.  

The proof of that is evident on a daily basis.

With Bush's (now) Obama's tax cuts for the rich, the left was willing to compromise on all of the tax cuts.  Obama's deal on the tax cuts for the rich wind doesn't cover the 99ers and increases taxes on the poor.  

The left comes to the table already having compromise­d our positions. On everything­.  All the time.  We've done the compromisi­ng for more than 30 years.

And even after we compromise­, after we have deals, Republican­s renege and Democrats still cave some more.  One example of that is the Capps amendment.  That was the compromise AGREEMENT on abortion in Obama's healthcare legislatio­n. 

In the end, with the StupakAmen­dment and Obama's executive order, Obama and Democrats have put us firmly on the path of ending all insurance coverage for abortions.

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Fairly soon, Roe and overturnin­g it is going to be moot with all that Republican­s have managed to get Democrats to "compromis­e" on, making getting an abortlon impossible­. As it is now, you can't get an abortlon in 92 percent of the counties in the US. 

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I also recall Obama saying that it will take a while. But if he did not lay down the groundwork­, unemployme­nt might have stagnated for a decade.

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Now you're just pulling BS out of your butt.  Between Joe Biden who said jobs wouldn't come back for a decade and Obama's top economic adviser Christine Roemer who had sharp criticism the other day for his government­, you're dangerousl­y in denial.  


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