Do any other folks here get the feeling Obama is TRYING to drive progressives out of the party?

[Ken Burch]

173. It's not about "never being happy"...it's about legitimate concerns.

Stop acting like this is self-indulgence or self-pity. It's about the country.

Besides which, Obama isn't running for re-election now, so what's the harm in talking honestly and openly about what's going on?

If we do retake the House in 2014(and you can assume the Left will be working for that even if the DCCC has given up at the start)it will probably be against the wishes of the administration, which seems to have accepted the Clinton argument that a Democratic president is better off having at least one chamber of Congress in Republican hands, no matter how insane those Republicans are.

As to corporate power, when it came to the scams the banks and the ceo's carried out, nobody was punished in any meaningful way, none of them were ever made to stop or change anything they were doing, and ALL the massive golden parachutes were left unchallenged and unreduced. The rich won on every point, and the admin gained nothing in backing down and letting them win.

There are several thing the admin could do to make the situation better:

1)If the president himself can't do it, Michelle Obama could go speak to one of the Moral Monday rallies in North Carolina or related events in other states.

2)The president could announce his support for a constitutional amendment specifically declaring that voting is actually a right, not a privilege.

3)He could commute Chelsea Manning's sentence on obvious humanitarian grounds.

4)He could finally pardon Siegelman(there's no excuse for not pardoning the guy already-NOBODY in Alabama who would ever even think of voting Democratic or writing a big check to the party would object)

5)He could make it clear that we will not, under any circumstances, bomb Syria or Iran.

6)He could call for the passage of legislation finally creating a public option for the ACA...doing that would mobilize millions of the disenchanted.

7)He could endorse a New Glass-Stegall Act.

None of these measures would be revolutionary socialism, and none would cost the president any votes on anything in Congress.