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In reply to the discussion: Obama: Dems don't get enough credit for willingness to cut Social Security and Medicare [View all]julian09
(1,435 posts)They say he didn't do anything as it is, what would have been done if congress was further divided than it is.
He extended tax cuts in order to make sure middle class cuts were extended and unemployment benefits were extended.
He is not an austerity proponent, he has several, jobs bills in senate waiting house approval, 14 tax breaks for small business.
He can't get another stimulus through senate,let alone the house. Health care, he got what he could, with changes to come later.
Do you think he could get single payer, when public option wasn't possible?
You're not the only one disappointed, he was foolish to believe he could have a bipartisan congress.
After, all the GOP leadership 14 in all conspired while he had his inaugural ball to let nothing get through congress that would make him look good. They were cutting him and the american people at the knees before he even sat in the oval office.
It would have been just great, to have him or Holder prosecuting all the previous administration, while the world economy was on the edge. Bush started TARP.