Not necessarily conspiracy, but betrayal. Read Taibbi's article. "What we do know is that Barack Obama pulled a bait-and-switch on us." http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/31234647/obamas_big_sellout/6 Or Sirota As my column shows, this is what happened this week on health care - and it was ugly. Really ugly. We saw the president break a promise and go out of his way to stop legislation so as to protect the drug industry's profiteering price cartel. Or Sirota Reviewing President Rahm Emanuel's Health Care Speech http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/reviewing-president-rahm_b_281559.html Or FDL Obama's Betrayal Of The Left Spells Problems For The Democratic Party http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/18450 etc.