Within two weeks, with Fox Noise leading and the rest of the corporate media acting as a mindless amplifier, the message would be reframed and re-interpreted until for a majority of the population in states with 30% of the population, sufficient to maintain 41 votes in defense of a Senate filibuster, its proof that Obama is a class warfare socialist.
And rather than going toe to toe with the Senate and duking it out, the current sham-progressive caucus in the House will hide behind that filibuster to agree to "compromises" that gut any policy response.
What is required to crack the opposition from the Senate is a reformist House with its back up, snarling and snapping with bared teeth at the Millionaire's club.
And retrofitting a backbone and teeth into the current faux-progressive caucus requires some faux-progressives getting shown the door in primaries in safe Democratic districts. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
And retrofitting a backbone and teeth into the current faux-progressive caucus requires some faux-progressives getting shown the door in primaries in safe Democratic districts.
Obama could have put the banks into receivership without waiting for Congress
What Obama could have done without waiting for the House is neither here nor there ... he is, after all, another Hedge Fund Democrat, and he won't go beyond the conventional wisdom without being pushed. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
