Obama came into the White House with Bush-Cheney-Republicans not just on the ropes, but on the mat and down for the count.
Then Obama issued a pardon, metaphorically speaking, and let them rise again.
After just one month in the White House, instead of going after Republicans and how their failed policies have brought us to the brink of destruction, instead of hammering Bush-Cheney-GOP for our economic woes and wars of choice, instead of investigations and prosecutions and RESTITUTION ("Look forward, not back" -- There's a novel idea for saving money; stop crime fighting), Obama and Rahm Emanuel went after Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh, two people with no role in the Republican Party.
Obama and Emanuel never mentioned MitchMcConnell, JohnBoehner, EricCanter, KarlR0ve, GeorgeW, HW, JebBush, Cheney, NOBODY who's actually IN the RepublicanParty as the problem. Obama still doesn't; he mocked DonaldTrump, an undeclared candidate for the presidency who every serious political pundit knew had no intention of actually running.
Republican leadership made no secret of the fact that Republicans wouldn't be cooperating with a President Obama back before he got the nomination in 2008. That he could take his "bipartisanship" and shove it. It wasn't just campaign rhetoric, 'meat' for the Republican base -- Republicans had been 'shoving it' to Democrats since Democrats had regained the majority in the House in 2006.
But there was Obama, watering down Democratic legislation, continuing BushCheney policies (and even going BushCheney one better), and Republicans still wouldn't work in a "bipartisan manner".
So what did Obama do? He watered Democratic legislation down even more (made it actually Republican-like legislation) and passed it through reconciliation, which didn't need (or get) ANY Republican votes.
Obama makes secret deals, lets lobbyists write legislation and policy and regulations, and the only time that Obama gets tough is on those representing the Democratic Party base's interests.
Obama is a changeling, a Republican-in-Democrats'-clothing, a Trojan horse, and Obama's 'most ardent supporters' are being irresponsible by their blind loyalty to a label.
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