Reply #10: This is total nonsense.

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Ed Schultz is right to jump on Obama who is supposedly the leader of the party. If Obama cannot bring the leadership of the party to enforce discipline on congressional democrats then he is the right person to be blamed for it. Why is Obama always turning to the conservative democrats to move the issues that he favored in his election campaign? Why do legislators like Max Baucus, Joe Lieberman or Ben Nelson get better support from the WH to lead on issues Obama favors yet they have never been called to favor the party line? Yes he - Obama deserve to be blamed if the democratic party's mechanism is ineffectual particularly since he got rid of Howard Dean as DNC chairman.