The Bait and Switch [View all]

[daredtowork]

Last week Obama was winning standing ovations from everybody by making speeches about things he can't deliver - like free Community College.

This week Obama is trying to push through a massively unpopular deal he can deliver, because it's an actual legislation in Congress: TPP.

The Community College thing was "politics-splained" to me as something that will make the GOP look bad and that will set the agenda for the next Democratic Presidency. (Like I believed Universal Healthcare was the agenda for this one...).

Sorry Eternal Boosters, I am suspicious. I am wondering if there has been a mad race to pump up the President's popularity JUST so he can get enough backing to push the TPP through. (Not to mention the epic $534 billion Pentagon budget request).

I do not believe the Community College thing will ever happen. Because no one even spoke a peep for the take-aways from the poor in Cromnibus (which included take-aways from Pell Grants), I believe public infrastructure will continue to be eroded even under Democratic Presidents. They will keep shouting "middle class", but some how the legislation as written will actually be a big old gift to their top donors, who will continually erode the middle class in pursuit of their own interests.

The populist/middle class evidence against TPP has been on the table for some years now, but Obama still believes we, the people, need to "get educated" about it?

Only vague promises have been dangled, but the THREAT that is being pushed through is very real.

Seems like a bait and switch to me.