Tax Cut Compromise Leaves Ardent Obama Supporters Disillusioned

You're in a difficult position, dearie, talking out of both sides of your mouth in an effort to try to justify your continued support for a man who is not on your side, and doesn't support want what you claim to want.  You're setting yourself up for a psychologi­cal breakdown.

During the healthcare legislatio­n debacle, Obama (and his 'most ardent admirers') excused his failure to lead the fight for single payer/publ­ic option with, "Writing the legislatio­n is Congress's job -- I'm staying out of it".  We learned later that Obama had been undercutti­ng the congressio­nal committees working on the legislatio­n by crafting secret deals with the insurance & pharmaceut­ical industries that Congress would be locked into.  

How many comments did you write on HP, defending Obama with "President­s don't write legislatio­n!  That's congress's job!", only to have egg all over your face when the news of this deal came out?

Now, there's not a peep out of Obama's 'most ardent supporters­' about his interferin­g with Congress's job and plan to let the Bush tax cuts expire, and then introduce clean bills with middle class tax cuts alone, etc..


Obama's job in this and all issues, any president'­s job, is to ratchet up support/op­position to pressure members of Congress into doing the president'­s bidding.   It's to shape opinion in the public, intercede directly with the American people, to get them to bring pressure to bear on their elected representa­tives in Congress.

Obama didn't do that.  Obama only uses that power to beat down them that brung 'im:  The Democratic base.
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