Obama the Neolib Got What He Wanted

and the American people are being screwed over royal.

Of course no Democrat is going to challenge this piece of shit in 2012.

Greenwald:

As I wrote back in April when progressive pundits in D.C. were so deeply baffled by Obama's supposed "tactical mistake" in not insisting on a clean debt ceiling increase, Obama's so-called "bad negotiating" or "weakness" is actually "shrewd negotiation" because he's getting what he actually wants (which, shockingly, is not always the same as what he publicly says he wants). In this case, what he wants -- and has long wanted, as he's said repeatedly in public -- are drastic spending cuts. In other words, he's willing -- eager -- to impose the "pain" Cohn describes on those who can least afford to bear it so that he can run for re-election as a compromise-brokering, trans-partisan deficit cutter willing to "take considerable heat from his own party."

I have always said NEVER trust anybody from the University of Chicago. NEVER.

Matt Taibbi seems to notice the lack of standing up for traditional Democratic Party principles, and it is not limited to the president.

Of course it isn't. It's all being played out as political theater, as both parties are bought and paid for by the same corrupt interests.

Citizens United needs to be overturned or outlawed, and elections must be publicly funded. However, given that the game is so utterly rigged by and for the elites, the chances of this happening are slim.