A surrender to Republican Party

[niceypoo]

President Barack Obama's shameful deal with the Republicans over taxes sends two clear messages. First, the U.S. government will put the desires of the rich ahead of the interests of all the rest of us. Second, President Obama will not fight for anything, no matter how righteous the cause.

http://www.timesunion.com/opinion/article/A-surrender-to-Republican-Party-893262.php

Time and again he has shown more desire for the good wishes of the Republicans than his own party or the majority of Americans who voted for him. Time and again he has moved away from his own promises and his own base to chase the approval of a Republican Party that moves further to the extreme right every day.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt is likely rolling in his grave after President Obama wrongly claimed the New Deal was built on compromises. Roosevelt was moving the country forward. Obama is always in retreat. The deal he just cut opens the door to defunding Social Security, among other flaws.

Letting millions of unemployed Americans be held hostage to the greed of the super rich is unconscionable. The short-term gains he touts come at the cost of long-term disaster.

The class war in America is over: President Obama has surrendered.

Larry Roth Jr.

Ravena

[WiffenPoof]

1. I Completely Agree

It wasn't that long ago that the Republican party was considered on its death bed. Most agreed that it would be years before they could rebuild their party.

What the hell happened????

They are not only revived, but they are flourishing. A reversal of this magnitude is something I thought I would never see.

-PLA

[karynnj]

2. This is a normal cycle - though more drastic

In 2005, the Republican had the Presidency, the House and the Senate. You had Norquist speaking of wanting to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub." In the Senate, in February 2005, you had an awesome Ted Kennedy fighting to make the bankruptcy bill less onerous. The talk then was that the Democrats had no power and it was not clear they would do better. Then Katrina happened. We took back BOTH Houses in Congress.

I actually think THAT change was the same order of magnitude - the difference is that we started having more in the House than they did then - the end result was that we were far better positioned after the 2006 election than they were this year.

Here, the fact is that Obama DID make changes - and they were changes where they likely felt as I did in 2005 watching Kennedy trying to stop that bad policy. They had huge support from a media - possibly most interested in tax cuts.