"If You Don't Want to be Reminded of an Unpleasant Reality, Don't Ask to be Reminded"

[Dustlawyer]

179. I am a Democrat who believes we can wear our big boy pants and handle a little criticism.

I know a Republican would be worse overall, but I can bitch about Obama and other Dems. On many issues he is no better. For example, here on the Gulf Coast we have a foreign corporation that has ruined 100's of thousands of lives and livelihoods. BP has bought off all of the Republican Governors on the Gulf Coast, and Obama. He put the Coastguard in charge of the appeals from the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF) and the claimant has lost every single appeal, over 1,100 to date! There is no way that could be real when BP refuses to pay interim benefits in order to make these fishermen etc desperate to take BP's standing lowball offers. They have settled over a 100,000 claims for 5k but will not pay the businesses anything close to what they have lost. Now they run commercials about how the Gulf Coast has fully recovered. Where is Obama to protect these citizens? Will no politicians protect Americans from BP? The answer is NO! Obama has the sorriest excuse for an Attorney General in Eric Holder. He will come whitewash what BP wants him to when he audits the GCCF. Obama has taken the money and run! Democrats, in general, are Republican lite. They all answer to the same corporate masters because of the money and power. Why do Dems always seem to cave, or Obama start negotiations by giving up key issues such as single payer health insurance? The money! Democrats act like the Washington Generals to the Republicans Globetrotters! I would rather have Obama but by God I can still call him out when he does the favors of the big money, can you say The Defense Authorization Act? Screw him!