Obama's Jobs Speech: Prepare to Be Underwhelmed
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Presidents regularly write legislatio
When you are 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. The only people who don't understand this are those who have never worked in politics or in government
Democrats like to hide this from the people, 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.
If you do not get behind what the leader of your political party tells you to do, you're going to find your life really cold and lonely for the duration of your term in office. Come election time, you will NOT have the party organizati
The Democratic leadership could've taken away committee chairs of members in their caucus that joined with Republican
The DNC could've taken away reelection funds. But it hasn't. Because Lieberman & Blue Dogs (& Republican
Obama insisted Lieberman remain in the Democratic Caucus. In spite of multiple betrayals by Lieberman before and during the 2008 election (Lieberman endorsed McCain, campaigned FOR McCain).
Over REAL Democratic senators, Obama insisted Lieberman keep the chairmansh
Does anyone really believe that Obama got nothing for that concession
If Obama got nothing for that concession
About Barack Obama
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