However, because the Democrats are all too often appeasing corporations and are too accommodating to the congressional Republicans, they have unwittingly fueled this strident opposition by a few in public.
The G.O.P., whose ranks have now dwindled largely to whites in Dixie and the less-populated West, is not even a paper tiger — it’s a paper muskrat. James Carville is correct when he says that if Republicans actually carried out their filibuster threats on health care, it would be a political bonanza for the Democrats.
In last year’s campaign debates, Obama liked to cite his unlikely Senate friendship with Tom Coburn, of all people, as proof that he could work with his adversaries. If the president insists that enemies like this are his friends — and that the nuts they represent can be placated by reason — he will waste his opportunity to effect real change and have no one to blame but himself.
Obama's reaching across the aisle nonsense will wreck his career. But it isn't just this nonsense that will hurt him. His inexperience is a real detriment in getting things done.
Yeah, the right fears losing its position, but don't forget the followers are not the REAL right. It's the very wealthy who are the ones spearheading this class warfare by trying using social issues propaganda to inflame their less well-heeled supporters all the while screwing over these same people with their tax breaks, etc. worsening the already bad economy.
(Sorry about the truncated post; Firefox went on the fritz a couple of hours ago.)
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