| | | You don't know what Obama could have done, no one does.
When Obama came in he was intensely popular with a huge majority in the House and 60 in the senate.
He could have been another FDR, except for one thing. He didn't want to fight.
He didn't want to fight Wall street and never indicted even one banker though they were involved in historical fraud, in fact Michael Lewis said in his book he told them he was there to protect them from the public.
FDR was very open about fighting Wall street and said they were as dangerous as an organized mob e.g. his 1936 speech :"I welcome your hatred".
And Obama did not want to fight the Republicans or McConnell at all, bringing numerous one's into his cabinet and even not telling us about the Russians involved in our elections because he said McConnell didn't want to.
And he never wanted to embrace the progressives, or the Democratic party.
He even allowed his "honeymoon" to lapse while he let the Republicans play him for a year on ACA..
So we will never know what he could, or could not have achieved, but we do know he never tried!
<,Message #480510 from Wharf Rat at 10/2/2021 10:56:40 AM
"If Obama had done the big stimulus package the progressives had wanted in 2009, "
the stimulus bill would have died.
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" that is why Biden is trying to stick to the 3.5 trillion"
He's not...
Updated: 10/01/2021 06:00 PM EDT
President Joe Biden deflated the air of urgency around a bipartisan infrastructure vote and tamped down liberal dreams of a $3.5 trillion spending bill in a speech before House Democrats Friday that left some members fuming.
Biden discussed a price tag for his broader social spending bill of between $1.9 trillion and $2.3 trillion, far short of progressive push for $3.5 trillion — but one that he suggested Senate moderates could back. And he declared no infrastructure vote until a deal on that larger spending bill, dashing promises Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her leadership team had made to moderates.
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