I don't think you remember what a democrat is. Given as how the DLC has controlled the Democratic Party for more than 20 years, it's not surprising.
Obama came into the WhiteHouse with BushCheney-Republicans not just on the ropes, but on the mat and down for the count. Obama issued a pardon 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 BushCheney-GOP for our economic woes and wars of choice, Obama and RahmEmanuel went after SarahPalin and RushLimbaugh, two people with no role in the RepublicanParty.
Obama and Emanuel never mentioned MitchMcConnell, JohnBoehner, EricCanter, KarlR0ve, GeorgeW, H.W., JebBush, Cheney, NOBODY who is actually IN the RepublicanParty as the problem. Obama still doesn't.
The KochBrothers and DickArmey get a lot of press for their role in the TeaParty's rise, but the truth is that they got a lot of help from Obama, RahmEmanuel and the DLC machine. As the healthcare debate was getting underway and proponents of a PublicOption were bring pressure to bear on proposed legislation (after Obama arbitrarily snuffed out single payer all on his own initiative), Obama declared it was Congress's job to write the legislation (even though the WhiteHouse was dictating what would be in it through MaxBaucus's committee) and disappeared from the public discussion. All the while Teabaggers were punching the fear card by strutting around Townhalls, breaking up the discussions with outrage over 'Death Panels', and carrying gvns openly. Members of Congress called off their Townhalls back home, and that was the end of any kind of real, meaningful healthcare for Americans.
Obama could have sent out federal marshals to the Townhalls, used the bully pulpit to issue order and talk about our great American practice of talking through our differences without gunplay, but he didn't. What Obama did instead during the same time period was unleash federal security forces to Pittsburgh to break up peaceful protests of the G20 meeting, test out the new weaponry to use on the growing disquieted masses - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2009/sep/25/sonic-cannon-g20-pittsburgh
Obama and the DLC-controlled DemocraticParty needs the TeaParty. It lets Democrats keep a legislative agenda to the right of center. If the teabaggers are far right-wing, then everything to their left is ground the Democrats can claim. And that's a lot of corporate-money ground.
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