Barack Obama Could Go After Supreme Court On Health Care, James Clyburn Suggests

Between redistricting, and how seats have been gamed, and Citizens' United, what we got in 2008 was as Democratic as it's ever going to get in the lifetime of just about everyone alive today, and we saw what Obama did with it (p!ssed it away, intentionally).

People are, generally, satisfied with the job that their representatives are doing.  What people want is the other guy'selected representative to get the boot, but not their own.  That's not likely to change as redistricting has basically just affirmed or extended the status quo.  Some on the left and the right have been redistricted out of their seats.  Look at Dennis Kucinich.

Politics, with political parties, is a top-down proposition.  You do what the party tells you to do, and that goes for Democrats, progressives, too.  If the president is a blue dog (as Obama is), you do what he tells you to do.  The idea that Congress is like herding cats is ridiculous -- If you don't do what your party tells you to do, you get no help from them come reelection.  You don't get money for your district.  You don't get plum committee assignments.  You are dead in the water of politics.

But Obama isn't interested in doing that.  He only cuts off liberals and progressives.  He keeps them out of his administration and he uses the power of the White House and the Democratic Party to keep them out of office.

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