Reply #3: Except that he hasn't achieved any of those things yet. You're counting your chickens [View All]

[rockymountaindem]

and all we've got is a bunch of eggs. He's not going to achieve them, IMHO, by trying to play nice with those opposed to change. We need to see some perfectly legal and legitimate old-fashioned Congressional arm-twisting before anything really gets moving. I understand that our system is built to stymie rapid movement, but that's no excuse for allowing Senators like Lieberman and Nelson to go around thinking there will be no consequences for their obstruction. That's no excuse for Obama not putting the squeeze on Reid somehow.

What we need is a President with the mind of Obama and the attitude of LBJ. We've got the first one, but we need to see if we've got the other one. "Consensus building" with corporate stooges isn't going to work. I'd say it's time for our President to start playing by *their* rules.