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The extreme right policies of the Obama administration are a rather blatant example of a much larger problem: the futility of voting for Democrats.
In a series of postings and with a bit of help, I came up with 140 examples of Bush Regime policies that this administration has continued or expanded on. And, it wasn't like I was trying to write an exhaustive list. I didn't have to do much research at all to come up with those items.
Our economy still sucks, when Democrats had the power during the last congressional term, they refused to pass real healthcare reform, lower the Social Security retirement age, or get rid of the Bush tax cuts for the rich (much less the Clinton, Reagan, Carter, and Kennedy tax cuts for the rich). Although Obama got the legal authority to lift the military ban at the end of last year, his administration keeps putting up homophobic administrative obstacles to postpone lifting the ban forever. 
Neither this administration nor the Democrats in Congress have done anything to fight AIDS, pass ENDA, fight the banksters, prosecute crooked Bush regime officials, or end the wars. It's been new bosses, same old shit. Now, Barack Obama is working with his Republican allies (the "conflict" between them is as fake as the WWE) to implement the Crusade of Obama's Cat Food Commission against Social Security, Medicare, and Medicare.
Obama and the Democrats have been just as callous and unconcerned as the Republicans about the plight of the middle class and the poor in this country who continue to suffer while their wealthy donors party down with money that rightfully belongs to the rest of us. This is an administration that is so brazenly corrupt that they have chosen to give hundreds of thousands of Americans cancer just to show favoritism to some well connected airport X-Ray scanner companies.
Where is the opposition to all of this in the Democratic Party?
Where indeed!
It is disturbing that there is no real Democrat left to fight for what the party used to stand for. No one is willing to take on the rightist political elites in the party who treat everyone else like garbage.
There really isn't anyone left in the Democratic Party to vote for. These days, voting for Democrats or Republicans is throwing away your vote. The only hope, and a slim one admittedly, is to vote Green. There really is nothing left in the party that once brought forth the New Deal and Civil Rights laws.
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Psycho Woman Throws Knives At Children
13 years ago
It is indeed a terribly depressing state of affairs... Talk about gridlock... The whole country is paralyzed 50/50 with stubbornness... Change you can believe in?
Bushack HW Obama could have done a whole lot more with the majorities he had. But at a time when we desperately needed LBJ, we got Mister Rogers.
I'd back Sherrod Brown as a primary challenger. Or Alan Grayson, who is thankfully running for Congress again.
I hope that the News of the World/Murdoch scandal--which is only going to get bigger when the political part is finally exposed (i.e., Tony Blair sold what passed for his soul)--might actually make real change possible. I really think it's possible. And if it does, that neoliberal monster in the white house won't be able to do a fucking thing to stop it.