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Politics : Mainstream Politics and Economics
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To: Paul Smith who wrote (53479)9/15/2013 11:53:23 AM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) of 85487
 
koan: Obama was elected to take on the plutocrats running this country. Look where we are now? They have more power and money than ever. Plus the house and supreme court. Pretty dangerous and inequitable situation for our country.

The danger of the plutocrats greatly exceeds the need for Obama care, if one sees the two as mutually exclusive as I do not. Look what has come out about the power of the Koch brothers and very rich. They are putting hundreds of millions into gaining control of the country. And they are winning. The banks and Wall street and corporations have joined them. They are engaged in a full frontal assault on our country.

He could have done both. It was really a matter of his running an inside game or outside game. He won on the outside game. He campaigned on the outside game, and the outside game was what we dems needed in 2010 to stave off the pubs who now probably control the house until we are both dead. His real power was with the outside game. The people.

And facing a great depression, what would make more sense than appointing the four best economists in the country.

But to your point, he could have taken on the plutocrats after he got Obama care, but after he was reelected with another outside game, he went back to his inside game; and now wants to appoint summers to the fed and the liberals have given notice they will fight to stop it. Warren, Wyden, Tester and Brown have publicly rebuked Summers. That is unusual to confront the president of your party.

And the plutocrats just keep gaining more hegemony over us.
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