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In reply to the discussion: President Obama Never Fails To Disappoint [View all]zeemike
(18,998 posts)If you can't get anything done when your party is in control then you will never do it.
And the excuse then was that he did not have a supper majority in the Senate...and now it is that the house is controlled by the GOP...excuses.
But FDR used the power he had to move things forward...but those things benefited people and so he was unstoppable because of it.
There was none of that in the first two years of the Obama administration...he appointed Wall Street and took the public option off the table, and called his base the "professional left" and dismissed them...and he lost the mid term because of it.
I even made excuses for him for the first term...thinking that once he no longer had to face re election things would change and I voted for him again...well that never happened and the first thing after the election he purposed chained CPI and the TPP...so I no longer feel the need to make excuses for him and I will not.