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In reply to the discussion: Cenk is over at Daily Kos calling for a vote against Obama (updated) [View all]mmonk
(52,589 posts)I didn't like the revamped Heritage Foundation's Health Care Plan and preferred at the minimal, a public option (killed by centrist Democrats) which was just used as a bargaining chip. Regulation of the financial system will require something else to "too big to fail" and a still pretty much deregulated derivative and hedge fund market. I didn't see much in prosecution of the financial fraud perpetrated on us. We've endured more years of deficit producing Bush tax cuts and false conversations surrounding the need to cut government spending in a down economy. We've also had more privatization of education while cutting budgets and starving it and then blaming the teacher's union. Both parties are targeting our social safety net for "reform" instead of funding it. The march forward on more free trade iniatives continue. I see no solutions on the horizon and self restricting rules put on Democrats by Democrats to do anything about it. Battles are reduced to battles over the minutia.