This President is why America today is run by warmongers and traitors!

[Zorra]

154. If Obama had started a New Deal type program soon after he was first elected, like FDR did,

he would have an even larger majority in both Houses than he had during the first two years of his Presidency, again, like FDR did.

Many of us here at DU were screaming for Obama to implement New Deal type policies. Some, (like myself) were screaming for Reid to change Senate rules to simple majority so that we could steamroll necessary traditional Democratic Party reforms and policies into law. We knew it was our chance to beat down the republicans and make them our punks for decades. We knew that if Obama pulled an FDR, we could eventually wipe out Reaganism and 8 destructive years of Bush.

But no, instead of damning the torpedoes and going full speed ahead with traditional Democratic reforms, Obama, assisted by his trusty corporatist Third Way Wall St tool Harry Reid, proceeded to squander our large majorities in both Houses by embarking on a destructive, completely ludicrous agenda of compromising for the sake of "bipartisanship", pandering to republicans and appeasing Wall St banksters, republicans, and all other wealthy private interests.

The result for our large majority Congress?



Gosh, who knew? Who could have predicted that would happen?!?

We got 6 years of what has basically been a lame duck Presidency, with a deranged republican conservative/Third Way congress bullying Democrats into whining, pathetic helplessness as republicans filibuster anything that might lead to productive change like schoolyard bullies. Because they can. Because Democrats gave them the power by not standing up to them like adults and setting the boundaries from the get go.

And we stood by, outraged, unbelieving, and helpless, as Democrats squandered all our hard earned and well deserved hope.

It's almost like it was all planned this way.

Let's hope the ACA exchange system that will be implemented in 2014 is successful in giving people real time unquestionable relief, or we could lose even more seats next year.

And Reagan was obviously a sick, twisted creep, in case you didn't get that from observing his personal actions.