Democratic Ownership of Government, Year One: What You Expected?

[MannyGoldstein]

Today, we find out that the President is http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7604655">actively protecting the worst sort of war criminals. Add this to spending freezes that affect mainly the middle class and the poor, a new tax on some of the middle class, zero new bank regulation (but 1% of GDP paid in banker bonuses), little health care reform if any, continuation of warrantless wiretapping, endless imprisonment with zero judicial oversight, substantial escalation of the Afghanistan war, and so forth.

Is this pretty much the change you were expecting?

[Ardent15]

1. So you only report the bad news

I see.

[MannyGoldstein]

2. Go for it - report the good stuff. Only actual things that are substantial, please.

Proposals shouldn't count after a year, I think - only things that have passed or orders enacted.

[Ardent15]

7. How about....

The stimulus bill
A $2,500 tax credit to help offset the cost of tuition (among other expenses) for those seeking a college education
Engaging the Muslim World
Creating an Office of Urban Policy at the White House
2 million acres set aside for protected forests

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/29/obamas-first-100-days-10_n_192603.html>

That was in the first 100 days. I'm sure the next 275 had more accomplishments.

[Fumesucker]

3. It's certainly not what I was hoping for but it's about what I expected..

You probably should put a poll choice in for that, I think I'll have some company..

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[MannyGoldstein]

9. Then it's good that it's not my profession, I suppose. nt

[MadBadger]

11. You're DU's Zogby.

[MannyGoldstein]

12. Well - what's your thinking? Is this the change you were expecting?

Have the Democrats performed as advertised?

[MadBadger]

13. Not exactly, and you didnt need the push poll preface to get that out of people.

[MH1]

5. Not what I hoped for but pretty much what I expected.

Except the part about frittering the whole year off on health care reform instead of other things like climate change. But what is coming as health care reform is about what I expected (assuming it gets passed), it just boggles my mind how frickin' long congress has taken to get it done.

[FreakinDJ]

6. They still have a "Tax Incentive for Outsourcing Jobs"

in these times of double digit unemployment I just can't believe they haven't dealt with that yet

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. From a centrist, status quo, politics-as-usual, politician? What else?

Fortunately, my ballot had more than two choices.

[OhioChick]

10. Hell No n/t

[Zavulon]

14. Surge in Afghanistan? Still in Gitmo? No, not what I expected.

And the best we could do with the pre-Brown majority on health care was a buy-insurance-at-gunpoint mandate with no public option?

Reid and Pelosi have fucked up health care beyond anything I could have imagined. I'm not entirely happy with Obama either, but most of our problems are on Capitol Hill, not the White House. I don't expect much to change for the better until we get better leaders than Reid and Pelosi. Reid in particular has been a sick joke.

[bobbolink]

15. Other... very sadly, about what I expected.

:cry:

[Ozymanithrax]

16. Democrats don't own the government, they only have temporary majorities.

I didn't vote for that reason.

[alfredo]

17. Pretty much what I expected.

[rhett o rick]

18. The fact that people calling themselves Democrats are in the majority does not

mean we get Democratic issues past. We have gotten very little in the last year and what has killed us are the turn-coat DLC-Blue Dogs voting with the republicans.