Political Commentary

Obama talked about being "transformative" and the importance of bipartisanship without having any clue whatsoever that simply doesn't work dealing with those assholes in Congress.

He tried to invoke Reagan and tried to be all things to all people, but the campaign rhetoric wasn't realistic when it came to governing.

You can never be a conciliator and accomplish anything as president. And especially in dealing with this mutation of a Republican Party, a party which is so anti-worker and anti-American. Obama and the Democrats MUST be more confrontational and tell the TRUTH about the GOP:

But after the disastrous Bush years, Democrats can no longer afford the luxury of avoiding the confrontation with the American right and its toxic legacy -- or trying to gloss it over with pretty words, as Obama did with Reagan. And there will never be a better time to challenge the monster in the right-wing cave. It is talking tough now, but it is weakened and confused, and it has just been roundly rejected by the American people. Americans are in a crisis, and they are prepared to take a fresh look at old dogmas. As Jon Meacham and Evan Thomas pointed out in an insightful Newsweek article titled "We Are All Socialists Now," Americans suffer from cognitive dissonance about big government: They distrust it and say they don't want it, but want the things that only it can deliver. And with the great god of free market capitalism now revealed to have feet of clay to everyone who has (or had) a 401K, the time is ripe for an articulate and non-threatening liberal to explain to Americans why the federal government has a vital role to play and does not have to be the enemy of individual initiative.