Larry Summers helped sink Elizabeth Warren’s nomination to head new consumer bureau

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24. Sometimes I'm not sure that he is a Democrat at all.

Even the health care plan was borrowed from Republicans. What has he done that was really Democratic? I have to think pretty hard. Certainly not continuing no child left behind and privatizing schools. Maybe some of the stimulus, but it wasn't strong enough to be really Democratic. It's really hard to find a program he brought into being that wasn't at least as much a Republican one as a Democratic one. I'm sure there are some but they don't come to my mind. That's what is so disappointing. You can't say. Well, Johnson brought in integration and Medicare. Carter brought in solar panels on the roof of the White House. But with Clinton and Obama, there aren't any huge hallmark ideas, new ideas that are distinctly Democratic although Clinton brought in "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and Obama has broadened the acceptance of gays and lesbians in the military and other government offices. Those are the only really Democratic changes that these two supposedly Democratic politicians have done.