Hillary is no better than Obama -- He ran to her left, remember?
The problem is the DLC. It controls the Democratic Party. We thought we were getting rid of the DLC in 2008, but it turns out that Obama was a ringer for the DLC.
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The House under Pelosi has been the champion of Progressive causes, yet they will be the most punished. They have done most of the heavy lifting, while the Senate stalled.
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No, you don't get away with making that r!diculous claim when legislation like the healthcare 'reform' bill, with its Stupak amendment (http://news.firedoglake.com/2009/11/17/gwu-study-yes-the-stupak-amendment-would-end-coverage-of-abortion-services-over-time/ ) and no public option, has become the law of the land.
Democrats in both chambers of Congress work as a team. They identify what they hope to achieve (pro-corporate legislation) and then strategize how to get it while saving each other's hides with constituents come election time.
Those in liberal districts get to talk a good game about being champions of the People, but when push comes to shove, if their votes are needed to cross over and k!ll liberal legislation (like a public option or access to ab0rtion), the DNC will make sure they are covered come election time, with massive infusions of money into their campaign war chests and crushing any principled challenges to them from the left in their primaries.
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No, you don't get away with making that r!diculous claim ("The House under Pelosi has been the champion of Progressive causes") when legislation like the healthcare 'reform' bill, with its Stupak amendment (http://news.firedoglake.com/2009/11/17/gwu-study-yes-the-stupak-amendment-would-end-coverage-of-abortion-services-over-time/ ) and no public option, has become the law of the land.
Democrats in both chambers of Congress work as a team. They identify what they hope to achieve (pro-corporate legislation) and then strategize how to get it while saving each other's hides with constituents come election time.
Those in liberal districts get to talk a good game about being champions of the People, but when push comes to shove, if their votes are needed to cross over and k!ll liberal legislation (like a public option or access to ab0rtion), the DNC will make sure they are covered come election time, with massive infusions of money into their campaign war chests and crushing any principled challenges to them from the left in their primaries.
About Barack Obama
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Obama and the DLC-controlled Democrats in Congress should have zigged (gone left) instead of zagged (gone even farther right than the DLC has taken the Democratic Party in the past 20 years).
All the conditions were ripe for undoing the pro-corporate legislation that has destroyed the middle class since Reagan (and really since Nixon), but Obama blew the political capital bestowed on him in the 2008 election, pardoned Bush-Cheney and gave the GOP a pass to resurrect itself.
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However, back in July 2008, then Candidate Obama told the UnitedSteelWorkers that, "Change is ending tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas & giving them to companies that create good paying jobs here in America; it's putting people to work...making the materials we need to rebuild America; it's...creating millions of new jobs - jobs that we want to be good union jobs - & giving our workers the skills to do them."
So there you have it: 24 months after Obama's speech to the Steelworkers and 18 months after his Inauguration, we hear from RahmEmanuel that "Made in America" & "ending overseas tax breaks" are finally to be Obama's upcoming themes for the Fall 2010 Congressional campaigns.
And political commentators & pollsters wonder why so many of us on the progressive, pro-worker side of American politics are so frustrated & cynical.
http://www.hu ffingtonpost.com/leo-hindery-jr/better-than-nothing-but-w_b_668618.html
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This latter number unfortunately is but a small fraction of the 22 million jobs we're missing today in order to 'fully employ' (i.e., a 5% unemployment rate) the 30 million real unemployed workers stuck in one of the four unemployment categories: "official", part-time-of-necessity, marginally attached, & discouraged & out of the workforce because they believe no jobs are available for them.
According to RahmEmanuel, "Made in America will become the big theme" of the President's pre-election push in coming weeks, & he will "focus on [sub] themes appealing to the economically battered electorate, including policies aimed at keeping jobs in the US". Emanuel says that this push will go beyond creating "clean-energy jobs to include more traditional industries such as automobiles and railroads", and, according to RobertGibbs, Obama "will also seek Senate passage of proposals to change tax provisions that he says encourage businesses to ship jobs overseas".
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For the entire 8 years of the Bush administration, those of us on the left learned to live with the legislation & policy 'standard' of "better than nothing". Heck, they pretty much hated us, & "better than nothing" was, well, better than nothing.
But it's beyond disappointing that in just 18 months this standard which is usually reserved for the minority party has largely become Obama's standard on what he promised were going to be the most immediate & urgent priorities of his new administration: job creation & reordering our global trading, especially our trade with China which has been eating the average American worker's lunch for more than a decade.
We're stuck in a jobless recovery with a real unemployment rate of nearly 20%, with even the 'false-positive' indicator of GDP growth that the administration wrongly relies on as its sole measure of economic vitality now at only a meager 2.4 percent annualized rate, versus the revised 3.7 percent rate of the previous few months. Yet the administration finds laudable - & seemingly sufficient - the 3.0 to 3.5 million jobs that it contends the 2009 federal stimulus bill will have "created or saved" (mostly just saved) by the end of this year, and, even more concerning, the relatively few 5 to 7 million jobs which it believes its three major jobs initiatives will create over the next five years.
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