Obama Would Sign Parts Of Jobs Bill, Push For Rest

After 9/11, when Congress was Bush-Chene­y and Congress were curtailing Americans' freedoms and passing the Patriot Act and other assaults on the Constituti­on and Bill of Rights, I and others were writing about how it's easy to protect people if you isolate them, strip search them before they get onto planes, etc. (I so long for the days when we were debating how expensive it would be to put a armed US marshal on every plane and reinforcin­g the doors to the cockpits).  

I don't think that Obama and Democrats were swept into power in 2008 to avoid gridlock.  If that was the goal of voters, voters would have put McCain and Palin into office and given control of Congress to Republican­s.

I think Obama and Democrats were put into power to dismantle what Bush and Cheney had done the previous decade, not continue their policies.

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