Wall Street Reform: FDR vs Obama

[rurallib]

2. I guess Obama will take the hit, but it seems to me that most of his failings

are caused by Republican obstruction and deceit with just enough help from conservative Democrats to make it stick.

True Obama came in somewhat naive and idealistic thinking that Republicans would put the good of the country ahead of partisan politics and paying off their donors. Republicans sure exploited this.

Plus, IIRC FDR had something like a 67% majority in both houses of congress. Had Obama had anything like that things would have been much different I am sure. Obama had the new 60% supermajority in the senate for only a brief window of a month or so as Ted Kennedy was battling cancer. Among that 60% majority was Joe Lieberman who was to say the least pretty much a turncoat.