Barack Obama Sure Ain't No George W. Bush (and That's Kind of Starting to Feel Like a Bad Thing)
AmericaBlog's John Aravosis puts into words the dark inky pool of despair that many liberal voters can feel welling up in their chests today…
It's not about the votes, people. It's about leadership. The current occupant of the White House doesn't like to fight, and the leadership in Congress has never been as good at their jobs, at marshaling their own party, as the Republicans were when they were in the majority…
When you have a President who is constitutionally, or intellectually, unable to stand for anything, and a congressional leadership that, rather than disciplining its own members and forging ahead with its own agenda, cedes legislative authority to a president who refuses to lead, you have a recipe for exactly what happened last night. Weakness, chaos, and failure.
We lost real health care reform not because we don't have a "real" filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. We lost health care reform because we don't have a real leader anywhere in our party.
But, hey, if Obama keeps playing nice and giving his lunch money to the Republicans, maybe eventually they'll stop beating him up and become his best friends.
Let's all hope really hard!
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Democrats have always had a fatal flaw, and that's their all-encompassing progressive agenda. Conservatives, at least for the past 30 years, focus on three things: homosexuality, guns, and abortion. Before that it was pretty much just fiscal conservatism without a whole lot of social…stuff. Liberals, by definition, are free thinkers, hence the party's inability to ramrod an agenda the way the right wing has for decades. There's the pot legalization crowd, the pro choice crowd, the abolish-the-death-penalty crowd, make love not war crowd, tree huggers, etc. We don't fall into lockstep the way conservatives do.
I don't blame Obama for failed leadership on health care reform. I blame Pelosi and Reid. They are weak leaders and the only reasons they hold their positions of power are political correctness and seniority.
The one thing Dems are always good at: shooting themselves in the foot.