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In reply to the discussion: I'm going to hurl a few three letter "words" at President Obama's legacy [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)DLC - (and its descendants that have WAY too much power to screw most of us for the interests of the 1% and the Kochs that helped start that infection).
SEC - Not doing it's F'ing job either!
TPA - That undemocratic method that is being used to try and push TPP on us later.
H1B, H2B - Should have called out the Senate to take out H1B expansion from immigration bill last year, which DID NOT BELONG in that bill, and should be pulled back from instead of expanded.
IRS - Needs to be empowered more to go after the multinational companies and other rich 1%ers to stop them sheltering their taxes offshore, etc.
FBI,DHS - Focused far more effort to go after and use military style repression of peaceful protests like Occupation Wall Street and what has happened with peaceful protests against violence, rather than adequately staffing personnel to follow and go after right wing violent groups.
KXL - Obama should have shut down Keystone Oil Pipeline with executive actions a lot earlier!
FCC - Appointing former communications industry lobbyist Tom Wheeler as the head of the FCC made a lot more of a problem with Net Neutrality than there ever should have been! We need more regulation of our communications industry to help us break apart the media monopolies and their corporate power rather than letting them merge more and get bigger.
DNC - Replacing Howard Dean as the head of the DNC with Debbie Wasserman Schulz equals BIG MISTAKE that has lead us to the losses we had in the last election.
DEA - Instead of embracing the nation's move towards more thoughtful handling of marijuana usage and moving away from worldwide record imprisonment of those victimized by decades of marijuana prohibition laws, Obama still is not taking any leadership in pushing for national reform of laws and instead just "somewhat" allowing the states to start this effort. Working instead of making it a medical issues, he keeps it a criminal problem, that continues to empower drug lords south of the border that continues the record levels of violence and spending a lot more money in helping with violent crackdowns on the illegal drug trading over our borders.
SSP (State Secrets Privilege) - Using it even more than Bush did to protect his administration from doing more scrutiny over our security agencies and drone assassinations of American citizens.
EPA - Giving a blind eye to coal industry pollution by basically having it all labeled as "Clean Coal", and not moving forward as aggressively as needed to stop more global warming carbon emissions.
MMS (Mineral Management Service) - Continuing the Bush administration of this agency being more in the pockets and pants of oil company lobbyists rather than the watchdog agency over this industry it was supposed to be, leading to more problems with things like offshore oil drilling than less of them.
NRC - Had early on been helping facilitate more construction of nuclear power plants, and hasn't really done a lot to phase back nuclear power since Fukushima disaster.
SSA - Obama looking to even talk about including Social Security cutbacks in any negotiations with Republicans has not been a good move.