Obama, how DARE you cave on tax cuts for the rich & then raid Social Security to pay for them

[Capt Lionel Mandrake]

114. Old News

I voted for Obama, yes, because I can never vote for the Repukes and because Obama's new Supreme Court appointee(s) (after one, two, or three current "justices" die or quit) will be better than Repuke appointees and because the injuries done to SS and Medicare/Medicaid stuff would be less serious under Obama than a Rawmoney. However, I also knew Obama would throw SS and Medicaid under his Wall Street bus, simply because his "economic team" included such Progressive-Socialist stalwarts as Geithner, Rubin, Summers, etc. and he himself assigned Simpson to the "deficit and cut committee." Obama has made more concessions than the Repukes ever asked for. I can't stand Obama--I couldn't, after he threw away the Single-Payer Option. He's a trainwreck. But there is no one else. Could we just throw away votes to stand on ceremonial principle?

We desperately need to take control of local politics, hound with letters phone calls and attendance at our "representatives'" public appearances, and try hard to influence the national democratic party. We need better men than Obama, far better. We need to organize, continue organizing, and plan on taking back, someday, the future.

Iceland put its bankers in jail. That is something of a model for the future. We should also make financial crimes of such magnitudes earn very serious incarceration time...