Keith Olbermann Suspends 'Worst Person' Segment In Wake Of Rally To Restore Sanity (VIDEO)

Do you remember Obama's excuse at the press conference after the explosion in the Gulf, about why his Interior Department issued exemptions to BP:



"[T]here is a thorough environmental review as to whether a certain portion of the Gulf should be leased or not. . . . .Under current law, the Interior Department has only 30 days to review an exploration plan submitted by an oil company. That leaves no time for the appropriate environmental review. The result is, they're continually waived. And this is just one example of a law that was tailored by the industry to serve their needs instead of the public's."



Only it's not true.



http://www­.salon.com­/news/opin­ion/glenn_­greenwald/­2010/06/03­/salazar/i­ndex.html



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Obama's agenda as perceived by Republicans who claim he's a socialist?



Or Obama's agenda as perceived by liberals and progressives, as pro-corporate, and a continuation of Bush-Chene­y-Republic­an policies?



This is how the oligarchs get away with it. This imprecision in language.



We need to get some shared and common definitions for the words and phrases we're using.
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It also doesn't fix the base or inherent problem: Transparency in workplace pay. And in the economic times like what we're experiencing today (and in the long term foreseeable future), expect the pendulum to swing back to pre-equal pay legislation when people are faced with homelessness and hunger. It's like fixing the Corvair's drift problem in an age of Priuses.



Also ironically, the same kind of problem (administrative or 'housekeeping' issues) has been written into every other piece of legislation that is on your list of Obama's 'accomplishments'. It's most notably in Obama's healthcare legislation, and it's what's going to enable Republicans to enact tort reform legislation in the near future, which Obama & Democrats will "compromise" (cave) on.



I look askance at those who tout Obama's 'accomplishments', because I know they're hapless saps, the victims of propaganda campaigns who aren't seeing that while the house is burning to the ground, instead of calling the fire department, instead of picking up a fire extinguisher or a hose and spraying water on it, instead of running inside to rescue trapped people & pets, Obama has been unscrewing the address plate from the mailbox.



I don't know what it's going to take to get through to Obama's 'most ardent supporters', and it's becoming disconsoling.
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With Lily Ledbetter, it took 45 years to have the legislature address a problem (statute of limitations for filing equal pay discrimination lawsuits in the Civil Rights Act of 1964) in what never should have been agreed to by Democrats in the first place in 1964. Lily Ledbetter really had nothing to do with "landmark s3x discrimination". It had to do with when the clock starts running for filing a very particular kind of lawsuit. It doesn't affect statutes of limitation for any other kind of lawsuit. It doesn't apply to the filing of all lawsuits. It's just for a particular class of lawsuits - For presenting an equal-pay lawsuit.



And it wasn't 45 years of Congresses trying to fix it. It was a year and a half. It was in response to the Supreme Court's decision in 2007 in one woman's lawsuit. It's not going to affect millions, or thousands or even hundreds of others - Ironically, if it were to affect more women, it never would have passed, no matter what party held the Congress (because it would have meant more money paid out from corporations to women, and Democrats work for corporations just as Republicans do).



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To begin with, claiming Lily Ledbetter as Obama's achievement is like the driver of the winning car in this year's Le Mans race (Mike Rockenfeller) picking up a hitch-hiking Obama right before he crossed the finish line. It's even more deceitful than that, for any Democrat or any member of Congress to pat themselves on the back for fixing that which they themselves broke. But even that doesn't quite explain it.



Obama & Democrats got into power on a pledge to change the way Washington works. Little is ever said or explained about what that really means. I'm going to attempt it:



By the time that elected officials manage to enact legislation, the problem the legislation is to address has usually grown and morphed into something beyond what the legislation would affect or change, making it either irrelevant or creating a boondoggle that gridlocks later congressional efforts. Or, something else.



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But I mention it just so you know why including it on a list of a Democratic administration's accomplishments isn't going to get the automatic standing ovation from Democrats that you think it should get.



Certainly not the automatic standing ovation that the repeal of DADT & DOMA would get. And that's because there is a downside to the Matthew Shepard Act (aside from what I've already mentioned): The unintended use of provisions in this act being used in investigations having nothing to do with the prosecution of hate crimes against gays. 'Mission creep', i.e., political prosecutions by Justice and political agencies.



I notice that you have left out the other "accomplishments" touted on the main list where you got these items, like "closed Gitmo", which is to your credit, but I mention it because the DLC-accolytes are taking advantage of the naivete and ig.no.rance of so many of their 'most ardent supporters'.



Lily Ledbetter has been at the top of their lists, too, and remains because to explain the ridiculousness of it as an "Obama accomplishment" can't be done in a 10-word soundbyte. The reasons are so numerous.



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Here:



Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act,

Signed: Thursday, October 22, 2009

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This is the 100-things list that Obama's done that's close to your point of view?



You have to be doing some real fancy 'convenient rationalizing' to be putting the Matthew Shepard Act on your list after Obama's shameful behavior on DADT & DOMA.



As a staunch (rabid) defender of gays and proponent for the advancement of gay rights' issues (all people's civil rights actually), I have to tell you that not all of us are on the same page about hate crimes legislation (the creation of laws and a special class of crimes against one group of Americans actually increasing discrimination and violence).



The explanation for why that's true is long reply of its own & better left for another day, as it's a complicated issue, where trade-offs (compromises) made in order to get it passed may have unintended consequences which we're going to regret.



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