This whole debacle revealed the fundamental suckiness of the US political system as a one way street: "imperial presidency" toward lining up coporate pockets, "lame duck" in the opposite direction. This cannot be reformed from within, this whole bipartisan institutional edifice must first collapse before any meaningful change is possible. So blaming Obama for that is likle blaming the bandleader Wallace Heartley for the failure to change the course of the Titanic.
I also have to admit that perhaps for the first time in my life I did not feel bad about a Repug electoral victory - it was too small to change overall tenor of the political discoure but big enough to derail the dreadful health care "reform" that Democrat politicians concocted. At this point, the only chance this thing can pass is by Congress adopting the Senate version - which would be suicidal.
Wojtek
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:41 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>wrote:
> So, now let's work to reverse the Obama program:
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> let's end the war, nationalize the banks, and establish single-payer.
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> Doug Henwood wrote:
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>> Let the weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth begin. The Dems, who
>> couldn't do a damn thing right with a majority of 19, now have to contend
>> with a majority of 18.
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