Progressives 'Break Up' With Obama
Thursday, June 16, 2011
This is silly. Holding his feet to the fire when it's the congress that should be blamed. He has said multiple times even in his state of the union to pass the dream act, but if congress is not willing to do this, how come it's Obama's fault?
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There is NOTHING that Harry Reid (or Nancy Pelosi, for that matter) is doing that isn't at the direction of the White House. It's all Obama-sanc
When you're the president, you are the head of your political party. When your political party controls both Houses of Congress and the White House, you do what the head of your party tells you to do. Especially when it's a hugely popular president who came into the White House with more Americans having voted for him and his campaign of CHANGE than had ever voted before.
That's 'Titanium' political capital, and Obama came into office oozing it. So much that the GOP was in a puddle in the gutter outside of the US Capitol. Is that really a vague memory? After the 2008 election, Republican
Democrats like to hide the 'hierarchy of party control and power' from voters, and lend the illusion of democracy (small 'd'), like "herding cats", "no organized party", etc., but that's how it is, and it's the only reason there are political parties.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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