Progressives Must Stand Up to the President

Let's just look at what's within Obama's own power, what he doesn't need Congress for, to see what kind of a ideologue he is.

Have you seen this?:

Rachel Maddow's investigat­ive report broadcast a few days ago on what caused the Gulf catastroph­e (bad design of blowout preventer, and it's ALL of the blowout preventers already in operation in the Gulf) and how nothing has been fixed, and new drilling permits are being issued daily (for deeper drilliing than before), which means if getting to them and stopping the gushing of oil at 5000 feet was nearly impossible and took months, getting to a blowout at 7000 feet is going to be even harder.

By the way, these blowout preventers have a nearly 50 percent failure rate.

If you really want to see what a miserable job Obama's been doing on drilling safety, watch this.  

But it's this interview with Michael Bromwich that really exposes how all Americans were lulled into a false state of trust in Obama, that he was sincerely going to right all of the wrongs committed by Bush-Cheney in their failure to impose and enforce regulation­s on offshore drilling. We have been taken for a ride by Obama and Democrats.

Read the Article at HuffingtonPost