I wholeheartedly agree with your concerns. Mostly when I post here, I am just trying to keep it real. I don't know what to do? And now I'm worried about Bloomberg getting into the race. That's all we need is another Nader screwing things up. If he wants to do something let him back one of the Democrats.
But here is another perfect example of why Obama has been a transactional president and not a transformative president.
FDR fought the right-wing so hard that he even tried to pack the Supreme Court. The Republicans pack the courts every chance they get. But according to Dahlia lithwick and Linda greenhouse, both hard-core liberals and both experts on the Supreme Court, had this to say when they were together in an interview on Bill Moyers.
It is important to realize that having both of them on the same program on Bill Moyers, what they said, is most likely 100% accurate. Before I tell you what they said, I want to point out that during the entire interview, and you might be able to Google it, they pretty much totally agreed with each other.
Here's what they said, Obama has been very lax in his appointments to the courts. He should have been packing the courts the first couple years when he had control of the Congress. Both of them said that the reason he didn't do it is that he does not believe the law should be made in the courts, that it should be made in the Congress. I tend to think the other part of it was just that he wanted to avoid conflict once again. It seems like Obama constantly was doing whatever was necessary to avoid conflict.
But just like his excess of deportation of Latinos, for which I've never been able understand what he was doing there, this refusal to use his office to empower the liberals and the Democrats when it's right in front of his face is puzzling.
But they both were in full agreement that Obama drug his feet in making Democratic appointments to the courts. There is just no excuse for that, and weakens we liberals considerably. We can't cede the judicial branch to the right wing like we have been doing. |
