Obama To Demand BP Create Liability Account For Spill Claims

As an old, old, liberal Democrat, I would enjoy nothing more than being able to say Obama and Democrats are doing a great job. I would have loved to have said that about Bush & Cheney, too -- Ok, I wouldn't have loved it, but I would have done it anyway, grudgingly.



But to have said that about Bush & Cheney would have meant they were governing & legislating as Democrats. Or as Democrats are supposed to govern & legislate, with Democratic policies.



Obama and the DLC-controlled Democratic Congress are not governing/legislating as Democrats.



If anybody should have been acting as Obama has been acting (in an extraordinary effort at bipartisanship, making unilateral concessions to the other side) it should have been Bush & Cheney after being handed the keys to the White House by one Supreme Court justice's vote. But they didn't and after 8 years of extreme corporate rule, voters handed Republicans their hats; Obama and Democrats were given a clear mandate to govern and legislate as Democrats.



But Obama is behaving as if the message of the 2008 election was that voters liked the results of Bush-Cheney-Republican-years, just not their style.



Can anybody deny that? And does anybody believe that's what voters intended when they put Obama and Democrats into power?
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