Reply #46: Reagan wouldn't have passed more banking regulation or made the tax code more progressive.

[Radical Activist]

I don't think your assessment is realistic. I think some people are gullible about always believing articles that attack Obama from the left without taking a hard look at the details. First, what Duncan did in Chicago is most certainly not what Gingrich pushed for years. And all we have so far about the SS commission is speculation about what some people say it might do.

I see a whole lot of broad accusations that fail to look at details and paint a misleading picture. It describes 90% of the criticisms I see about Obama not being liberal enough. That 90% undermines the credibility of the 10% of serious criticisms that people should be really worried about.

I'll re-post my list for the cookie-cutter Obama attacks because the pattern is so common it has become cliche:

1) Pick an issue.
2) Downplay or ignore anything Obama has already done.
3) Portray any small progress as a complete failure and catastrophic betrayal of the left.
4) Assume that lack of immediate action exactly along the lines of what the writer wants represents a complete abandonment of the issue by Obama.
5) Claim it's no different than Bush's policy. Then copy and paste the sensational language used to attack Bush on the same issue a few years ago.
6) Don't forget to sarcastically ask if this is hope and "change we can believe in."