Even when Obama had a majority in Congress, he wasted his political capital (and tons of time!) scurrying around the republican caucus on his knees and letting the neos own the midterm election messaging. He squandered his best chance to make a big impact.
Obamacare is a very feeble compromise, although it IS an accomplishment. But on virtually all other matters (e.g. the Constitution CLEARLY negates this ceremonial 'debt ceiling' nonsense, yet even with that weapon at his disposal, he won't use it), he brings a wad of silly putty to a gunfight EVERY time. Last debt ceiling fight cost us a lot of tax revenue from the 1%. In fact, I believe the last tally I read (on HuffPo) for that deal was that the 1% scored breaks on the order of $20 billion and the unemployed/etc. scored around $4 billion. Honestly, I could NEVER look myself in the mirror ever again if I was in his shoes and had made that deal.
With friends like that, we 99% are just ducks in a barrel.
So even if the House comes back to Dem majority, there is absolutely, positively, unarguably no reason to have any confidence whatsoever that this President will change his insidious timidity and move anything else forward for the 99%.
In the meantime, enjoy those delicious crumbs!
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