Crushing Workers Won't Solve Deficits

Nancy Pelosi likes to brag that Democrats got 420 pieces of legislatio­n passed in the House since Obama got into the White House.

Where's the accomplish­ment in getting 420 pieces of legislatio­n passed in one chamber of Congress but not the other? It only becomes law when both chambers pass it and a president signs it.

It's cover for those Democrats who come from liberal districts, nothing more.

It's always "somebody else's fault" that it didn't pass.  The fact is, Obama and Democrats aren't doing what it takes to get it passed because they don't work for the People.  They work for the transnatio­nal corporatio­ns.  

The healthcare legislatio­n is a great example.  A robust bill with a public option, even expanding Medicare, could have been passed had we had a president beating the drum for it.   Obama could have done to Lieberman and the Blue Dogs what he did to Dennis Kucinich.


What did Obama do when Kucinich (the last hold-out on the Progressiv­e Caucus, all of whom had pledged to vote for a healthcare bill only if it had a public option, and who all caved) was opposing him to the left?  Obama flew to Cleveland and held a big rally.  Obama rallied Kucinich's constituen­ts against him and he got Kucinich's vote.  

Where was that mentality with Joe Lieberman, Blanche Lincoln, the other Blue Dogs and even Olympia Snowe?  If the president of the United States had used the bully pulpit against them, a lot of progressiv­es would have respected that and said, "You tried your best".  

But Obama didn't try.  He cut a deal.  Months earlier, cutting the will of the People off at the knees.  The public was powerless in the backroom deal.
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