To those like you who spew rhetoric like, "Look at how impatient they are. What did they think, he was going to come in and fundamenta
lly, 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 disappoint
ed isn't because Obama hasn't succeeded yet: It's because he's not trying. He's doing the opposite. Everything he accomplish
es 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 disappoint
ment 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 ExecutiveOrder, Obama and Democrats have put us firmly on the path of ending all insurance coverage for abortions. http://news.firedoglake.com/2009/11/17/gwu-study-yes-the-stupak-amendment-would-end-covera
ge-of-abor
tion-servi
ces-over-t
ime/
Fairly soon, Roe and overturnin
g it is going to be moot with all that Republican
s have managed to get Democrats to "compromis
e" on, making getting an abortlon impossible
. As it is now,
you can't get an abortlon in 87 percent of the counties in the US. [It's now up to 92 percent.]
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