Another BRILLIANT strategy in the offings ...

[guillaumeb]

72. possibly tried in the House, like President Clinton,

but convicted in the Senate? No.

The President is not a leftist, or a socialist, as the GOP insists. But we know and knew that. I think part of the disappointment was that the hopeful sign of a country founded on chattel slavery of blacks could elect a mixed race President.

That hope was shown to be foolish by the actions of unreconstructed, mainly southern, Republicans. But we know that also. I think that any criticism of the President for being insufficiently progressive fails because he did not campaign as a progressive and he received no cooperation from the GOP and not a lot from the conserva-Dems.

Same for criticism that he did not accomplish enough.

But I feel that what President Obama is doing now is trying to reframe the terms of political debate in a way he could not do legislatively. The veto of Keystone is a good step, as was the small step on immigration. I hope he will take more such actions and keep the GOP in the defensive.