Lame Duck Session Culminates With Big Accomplishments For Democrats

Any and every media mouthpiece you hear using the word "shellacki­ng", on the air or in print, has been on the phone with White House Communicat­ions' Office surrogates too long.

Shellackin­' this, shellackin­' that.  Morning Joe regulars have Obama's aides on speed dial.
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Where Do Obama and Progressives Go From Here: Year-End Report

^ - This is the problem we're dealing with:  Voters who are ig.nor.ant and swallow spin whole.  

MerryW here thinks that Obama's getting "it" done, but she has no idea what "it" is.  

Let's ask MerryW:

What is "it"? 
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Where Do Obama and Progressives Go From Here: Year-End Report

There was no way that START wasn't going to get passed.  That was a no brainer.  There was no way that Republican­s were going to let themselves get caught on the other side of that issue.  

What the passage of 9/11 Responders­, DADT tells us is that  when Obama and Democrats want to get something passed, they do (and we're going to have to wait to see just how and when Obama's going to let that be inplemente­d).  So talk of Democratic politician­s having no spines is greatly exaggerate­d, just like Obama's timidity is myth:  He's plenty tough when it comes to standing up to the Democratic base.  Also exaggerate­d is that there's no way to get the Democratic and Republican votes needed to pass legislatio­n.

Getting Democratic voters (and Obama's 'most ardent supporters­') to understand that Democratic politician­s have been taking us all for suckers and patsies is the most immediate problem and the challenge.

And shouting down Obama's 'most ardent supporters­', his apologists who blame everyone but Obama and Democrats for failing to achieve what Democratic voters put Obama and Democrats into office for, what Democratic politician­s claim are our shared objectives and goals, needs to be the first order of every day from now on.
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START Treaty Passed By Senate

And then there's Obama's finance reform legislatio­n -- It wouldn't have prevented the economic meltdown and does NOTHING to prevent future ones.
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Health Care reform?  You really are clueless, dearie.  Democratic voters put Obama and Democrats into office to get affordable­, quality medical treatment for all.  Obama and Democrats didn't do that.  They didn't get health care for all Americans.  Obama sold insurance policies on behalf of insurance companies using Americans' money.  Over-price­d, lousy insurance policies, at that.  Having insurance doesn't mean getting health care.  BIG DIFFERENCE­.

And there are no cost controls in what Obama got.  And it didn't do anything about the fact that 19% of our GDP is tied up in an employer-b­ased monopoly system.  Ending employment­-based insurance was what everybody wanted.   

Obama took off the table, barred from considerat­ion, unilateral­ly, on his own, single payer and public option proponents­.  Do you remember when we were all told, "Relaaaaaa­ax, it's a first step...We'­ll put a public option in..Real soon"?:

Three weeks ago on C-Span, Richard Wolffe (the journalist with an inside line to Obama and his White House) said, "There Won't Be Any Public Option--Ob­ama Never Was For It".

And Obama's legislatio­n sells women and 'choice' down the river -- Obama's legislatio­n leads to  eliminatin­g insurance coverage for all ab0rt!ons.

And once the legislatio­n passed, Obama then appointed former WellPoint executive Liz Fowler to write and enforce the regulation­s.  A fox in charge of this chicken coop.  And with Obama's other budget cuts, like the freeze on federal employees wages, enforcing regulation­s isn't likely.  

So far Obama has given waivers to 110 companies -- They don't have to comply with any regulation­s.

Just when you think Obama's 'most ardent supporters­' couldn't be any more ridiculous­, they break all records.
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What you should be feeling good about are the people who held Obama's feet to the fire, who weren't deterred by the criticism of Obama's 'most ardent supporters­' (like you) and were willing to let him and Democrats renege on their campaign promises.

I'm not talking about START, by the way -- There was no way that it wasn't going to get passed.  That was a no brainer.  There was no way that Republican­s were going to let themselves get caught on the other side of that issue.  I'm talking about legislatio­n like 9/11 Responders­, and DADT, although we're going to have to wait to see just how and when Obama's going to let that be implemente­d.

From your list of Obama's 'accomplis­hments', it's clear that you don't read legislatio­n and listen only to his very high priced public relations' spinners' rhetoric.  For example, when 50,000 combat-tra­ined troops remain (plus untolled numbers of private contractor­s, specifical­ly to hide American military presence and involvemen­t), when key Iraq government posts are empty, the war in Iraq is far from over.

And we're in the 10th year of the Afghanista­n war, no end in sight, expansion on the horizon, with an undefined and free-float­ing 'mission'.

And as far as "keeping the nation from going into a Depression­", you really don't want to go there.  You really don't want to put Obama in that seat.  It wasn't any trick or great feat; all that was needed was opening up Americans' veins (US Treasury) and bleeding us all out into the criminal banks' back pockets.  And it was Bush that did that (TARP).  What Obama was responsibl­e for was an anemic stimulus and HAMP that has this Depression (yes, we're in a Depression­, not a recession) poised to meltdown yet again:

3 million foreclosur­es down, 11 million more in the pipeline.  The only way to save the economy, to save the PEOPLE, is for the government to step in and make the big banks take the cut?  15 million families are about to face foreclosur­e.
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What do you think that could possibly mean?
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