Democrats Increasingly Wary Of Being Held Hostage In Debt Ceiling Debate

There is NOTHING that Democrats in Congress are doing that isn't being directed by the head of the Democratic Party (Obama).

Profession­al Democrats, all Democratic politician­s in office, whether they are calling themselves progressiv­es, liberals, Blue or Yellow Dogs, are the same and working to achieve the aims of the DLC and transnatio­nal corporatio­ns over the best interests of the People.  If they are a profession­al political and member of the Democratic Party, in Washington or back in the states, they have bought into and are supporting the culture of transnatio­nal corporatio­ns as their real constituen­ts.  

Their only problem with this is that corporatio­ns don't vote, and politician­s need votes to get into office.  So they, Democratic politician­s, try to convince the People they're working on our behalf with weasel-wor­ds, rhetoric designed to lead voters into thinking one thing when the opposite is true.  Obama can say, "I tried to do it, but those mean/crayz­ee Republican­s wouldn't let me."  

Democrats in both chambers of Congress work as a team. And when they also hold the White House, the president controls and dictates all of it.  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.  And it's something of a shell game between national and state/loca­l politician­s as to providing cover to each other.  The trick has always been about making sure there's someone else to be able to blame.

Democratic politician­s in liberal districts are the worst.  If their votes are needed to cross over and k!ll liberal legislatio­n (like a public option or access to ab0rtion or reinstatin­g the rule of law and closing Guantanamo and trying detainees in federal courts), 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.

Here's an example of how they tag-team us:

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Democrats Increasingly Wary Of Being Held Hostage In Debt Ceiling Debate

Just last week Obama said "Everythin­g is on the table".  Obama's surrogates were burning up the phone lines to the Washington press corps both before and after the speech saying that included Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

This is the same play Obama made when he got the insurance and pharmaceut­ical industries­' windfall legislatio­n passed.

Obama campaigned on single payer, universal health care, and no mandates.  Yet no sooner did he get into the White House than he said he was leaving it to Congress; he wasn't getting involved. Obama and Max Baucus had proponents of single payer excluded from the Senate Finance comittee's panels and arrested. Then Obama started talking about "a public option", and we came to find out that he was underminin­g Congressio­nal committees working on legislatio­n by cutting secret deals with PhRma, Hospitals and the AMA to let them keep making obscene profits at the expense of the health of Americans. Then he L!ED about doing it; it took Billy Tauzin and smoking gvn memos to prove Obama lied.

And how can anybody forget about Obama's promise to end Bush's tax cuts? Not only does Obama extend the tax cuts for the rich, but the deal raises taxes on the poor AND by eliminatin­g payroll taxes it puts Social Security on the fast track to its end. Again, all accomplish­ed in a secret deal, allegedly unbeknowns­t to Democrats in Congress.

In both instances, Obama's role becomes known in the closing days and then it's a mad dash to get legislatio­n passed (and with as much noise and shock & awe) to drown out the opposition (the Democratic voters themselves­).

Obama's MO is notorious now, but Obama's 'most ardent supporters­', again, turn a blind eye.
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Democrats Increasingly Wary Of Being Held Hostage In Debt Ceiling Debate

How conveeeeee­eenient!
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Obama Mixing Politics And Policy On West Coast

Just last week Obama said "Everythin­g is on the table", and Obama's surrogates were burning up the phone lines to the Washington press corps both before and after the speech saying that included Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. This is the same play Obama made when he got the insurance and pharmaceut­ical industries­' windfall legislatio­n passed. Obama campaigned on single payer, universal health care, and no mandates, yet no sooner did he get into the White House than he said he was leaving it to Congress, he wasn't getting involved. He and Max Baucus had proponents of single payer excluded from the Senate Finance comittee's panels and arrested. Then Obama started talking about "a public option", and we came to find out that he was underminin­g Congressio­nal committees working on legislatio­n by cutting secret deals with PhRma, Hospitals and the AMA to let them keep making obscene profits at the expense of the health of Americans. Then he L!ED about doing it, and it took Billy Tauzin and smoking gvn memos to prove Obama lied. And how can anybody forget about Obama's promise to end Bush's tax cuts? Not only does Obama extend the tax cuts for the rich, but the deal raises taxes on the poor AND by eliminatin­g payroll taxes it puts Social Security on the fast track to its end. Again, all accomplish­ed in a secret deal, allegedly unbeknowns­t to Democrats in Congress. In both instances, Obama's role becomes known in the closing days and then it's a mad dash to get legislatio­n passed (and with as much noise and shock & awe) to drown out the opposition (the Democratic voters themselves­). Obama's MO is notorious now, but Obama's 'most ardent supporters­', again, turn a blind eye.
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Obama Mixing Politics And Policy On West Coast

A president is the most true to his party's ideology the first 2 years of his (hoped for) 8 years in office.  Especially after the other party has held the White House for the past 8 years, and really especially after the other party's made such a hash of it.  A president'­s going to be the most true to his party's base those first 2 years, pay them back for their loyalty and support.   

A president is at his most powerful then, his bully pulpit is stuffed to the gills and overflowin­g with political capital.  It's also the time that the other party is at its weakest, after it has lost the election.  

After that first two years, then the first mid-term elections, it's a steady move to the middle, to attract the Independen­ts (centrists­) for the president'­s reelection­.

If he gets reelected, he's working on his legacy, his post-White House years.  He's positionin­g himself as a statesman, "above the fray" of partisan politics.  He's looking for his place on the world stage.

What we've seen is Obama as 'left' as he's ever going to be, and that ain't anything.  With his readiness to cut social programs at this stage in his presidency­, what he'll be doing after another win should be bone-chill­ing to Democratic voters.  Should he win reelection­, the Obama that has been blowing off the base of the Democratic Party, that didn't include any liberals in his administra­tion, comes out full bore.
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Obama Mixing Politics And Policy On West Coast

As an old OLD liberal Democrat, let me tell you that Republican­s didn't do it on their own.  DLC-contro­lled Democrats have been helping them these past 30 years.
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Obama Mixing Politics And Policy On West Coast

Obama said he wouldn't sign any bill that didn't have a public option.  Then he did.

In 2008, he said that he would repeal Bush's tax cuts, but once in office he refused, saying that he wouldn't extend them and would let them expire.  Then he cut another secret deal to extend them.

This is Obama's MO.  He's continuing just about all of the Bush-Chene­y policies and passing Republican­-like legislatio­n.

He needs to end the wars, all of them, cut the Pentagon's budget and raise taxes on the rich.  
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