What remains unchanged or has worsened under Obama?

[Dragonfli]

75. The ones that applaud a Republican cabinet - blue dog third way Reagan Democrats that

No doubt fell for Bush's conservative economic policies and so likely voted for him.

Most other DU'ers hated Bush and Reagan and not only didn't fall for the scam like conservative DLC "Democrats" tend to (and want to implement under a banner of bipartisanship), but fought monkey boy tooth and nail and worked tirelessly to replace him with a Democrat, any Democrat In retrospect we foolishly in the quest for "any Democrat" chose a Republican/Social issue Democrat hybrid that Prefers working with Republican opponents rather than Democratic allies and hiring them into positions of power over more qualified but less corporate or hawkish Democrats for said positions.

You have been here long enough to know this, but choose to perhaps forget most of us are far more the enemy of Bush and the Republican party than our third way party leadership ever was, they first took control of the party in the late eighties as DLC and managed to pass free trade , bank deregulation that led to the crash and future crashes because the regulation has not been put back in place, and their favorite Reaganesque policy of punching the least among us with cruel welfare deform. These same Reagan "Democrat" ideologues continue to hold the top as "Third way" or "New" Democrats some of whom freely admit they are in fact policy wise 80's Republicans.

We were united for a very good reason against the sociopathic Republicans and Bush, we hated him/them (and still do) so much that went to extreme lengths to elect a Democrat, any Democrat however that any Democrat part was the mistake, we need to not accept half Republicans either or their economic agenda continues on the Reagan path, we need Democrats that are real enough to oppose corporate ass licking while punching the poor, Democrat enough that they will oppose outsourcing all the better than min wage jobs via more "free trade". Democrat enough to re-regulate wall street to the pre-80's level. Democrat enough to support rather than condemn whistle-blowers and condemn rather than support the erosion of our civil liberties. Democrat enough to offer expansion of our anemic safety nets as solutions rather than offering plans to "sensibly" cut them even further. Democrats enough if we are lucky to condemn the Bush fear and money sucking scheme that is a never ending war on a tactic (terra) against the entire world and now even our own population, maybe end other permanent wars against non enemies like drug users (another money sucking scheme).

We have to get all the Republicans out of office not only the heavies but also the lite 80's Republicans registered as Democrats as well, these sleepers help the Reagan/Bush agenda succeed just as surely as their Republican party counterparts that they only disagree with on social issues.

We have to fight those 10% of Reagan Democrats that voted for Bush as strongly as we fight the baggers and Boners, I agree with you on that.