Right-wing obstruction could have been fought: An ineffective and gutless presidency’s legacy

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

184. That's why I couldn't rec this.

It implies one thing with the title, and then refutes it with the rest of the article.

The President is neither gutless nor ineffective. He and his financial team were incredibly effective at stabilizing a system that keeps the wealth flowing ever upwards, at the pivotal moment in time where, had we not had a team of Goldman Sachs alumni put at the helm of charting our economic course, there was a window for drastic reform due to the nigh catastrophic failure of the system. Congress needed to do something drastic to keep the rich from being as devastated as the rest of us, and it was at that time that choices could have been made that would have helped Main Street as much or even more than Wall Street. But once again, another administration turned to the very people who helped create the bubbles that drove the system to the edge of disaster, and allowed them to craft a path that instead merely backed away from the cliff, but held true to the same general principles of 'trickle down'.