Reply #34: The problem is that he has elected to create and expand messes [View All]

Expanded in Afpak well beyond what he committed to and should have pulled the hell out.

Turns over health care reform to conservatives, pharma, and big insurance to create not reform but doubled down on a failed system and then further set up a mandate into the predatory criminal cartel. Appears to be a set up to privatize Medicare and Medicaid all according to the plan of the corporatist Emanuel brought in by his brother as a subject matter policy adviser.

Plans to privatize public primary education via the so called charter school.

Heavily Wall Street centric and as much as possible laissez fare fiscal policy.

Continues unconstitutional wiretapping programs.

Refuses to seriously tackle needed infrastructure repairs and upgrades.

Reliance on the magic of tax cuts.

I'm just flat out not seeing a change in trajectory other than perhaps for the worse, further failing into the false trap of Reaganomics and neoliberal public policy. The only "clean ups" I really detect are a reduction in bellicose tone on the world stage and acknowledging some of the major issues. Admitting you have a problem is a start but following that up with canary in the coal mine style or even counter productive solutions ain't gonna cut it.

Obama cannot complain about the mess or the lack of help if he mostly commits to cleaning it up using many of the exact methods and philosophies that created it.

The President for all his talk of change is showing to be more of an agent of the status quo than anything approaching a revolutionary. He has signaled that the age of Reagan continues and that he is unwilling or unable to make a clean break with a generation of failed ideas but rather he intends to weave them into the fabric of the Democratic party and killing the New Deal.