Will President Obama really help the middle class this time (talking about the tax cut extension)?

[1StrongBlackMan]

38. It worked because ...

1) 30 million people will be covered; pre-existing conditions are no longer grounds for exclusion, seniors are paying significantly less for their medicines; the 80/20 rule is in effect, and paying rebates.

The fact that it was/is a republican plan ... so what? It is better than what we had AND most importantly, it was doable.

2) (It worked because) for the first time, a majority of the electorate (likely voter) see the gop as the obstruction that they are. This would not have been possible; but for, President Obama's constant reaching out.

This advances our ability to get MORE done, if these voters vote their knowledge; rather than their party.

As an African-American, who was alive during the de jure jim crow, I recognize that progress is often frustratingly slow; but, progress is progress. And that progress is ONLY accomplished through doing whatever doable things that are out there.

Now ... we can argue about what is/was doable; but if we do, I must insist that you explain HOW your alternative was doable.

Example: I do not want to hear anything about Presidential leadership because the president does not control the law-makers. He can ask, argue, cajol and even threaten; but at the end of the day, he does not write the legislation, nor does he get a vote.

Likewise, I do not what to hear anything about scraping the current corrupt system and install a single-payer/national healthcare system, as that is but a distant, and with the current legislation, undoable thing.