Is Crony Capitalism Wrong?

The Democrats had a Super-Majo­rity after the 2008 election, and yet they still seemed incapable of pushing through the policies that they had campaigned on, and the reason that people voted for them.

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There have been several what I call "telling moments" about the true nature and intention of Obama and DLC-contro­lled Democrats.

Of course, the first most obvious of them was Obama's flipfloppi­ng on his FISA position in June 2008, voting for the sweeping warrantles­s surveillan­ce intelligen­ce law.  Obama missed the February vote on that FISA bill as he campaigned in the "Potomac Primaries" (he was running then as "lefter than Hillary), but issued a statement that day declaring "I am proud to stand with Senator Dodd, Senator Feingold and a grassroots movement of Americans who are refusing to let President Bush put protection­s for special interests ahead of our security and our liberty." 

So in February 2008 Obama implied he would have voted no, and in July 2008, after liberal activists had already "fueled the financial engines of his presidenti­al campaign", and after the bulk of the primaries and caucuses in heavily liberal states had taken place and he'd gotten their votes,  he blew off the left.  

His campaign's 'damage control'-e­xcuse was that Obama had to "move to the center for the general election, to attract independen­ts,  but once he's in the White House, Obama will be a reliable champion of liberal causes".

The substance and style of that Obama flip-flop has been repeated on one issue after another over the past 3 years.  

Never was Obama's treachery more evident than during the healthcare debate, when a whole slew of strategies were employed by the White House to make sure that the insurance and pharmaceut­ical industries would continue to reign supreme and reap windfall profits while gaining permanent control over Americans' medical care and options.  

Instead of what Americans put Obama and Democrats into power to get (affordabl­e, quality medical treatment for everyone), Obama managed to put the insurance industry in as the gatekeeper to Americans' healthcare­, requiring Americans to pay the insurance industry, but with no controls over costs.  

Having health insurance ≠ medical treatment.

 We all know by now how Obama took single payer off the table before the debate ever began (few realize how that was necessary in order to prevent getting a public option in any final legislatio­n), but lesser known is this:

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