Or maybe they have always been. It is darn strange how a guy who won in Indiana, NC, VA, Ohio, Florida, New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado, and was within a working margin in Arizona is getting so much interference from his own party. If Obama had more of a backing within the party, he would not have had to come down like a hammer on the Auto-industry. Dems have allowed the Repugs to turn the auto-industry into a bunch of $70 per hour union workers. Evan Baye was nowhere to be seen during the Repug attacks or during the past 8 years of Bush, but give him a chance to come out against Obama, and that fuck is first on board. Imagine Obama having to give up Health Care, Energy, or anything because of the Dem budget hawks. Bush came into office fresh off of a stolen election and passed massive tax cuts and all sort of mess and ..... This is a great read for me. I think its true.
What's maddening is not that Obama's budget is a perfect document--though it does a better job of setting priorities than any presidential budget in at least the last 30 years--but that the deficit-reducing measures Democrats object to are the most sensible parts of the budget.
But yet.......
Obama gets blocked quite a bit. He is running into major interference from his party.
The tone of the Senate's disposition toward Obama was set from the very beginning. Coming into office during a severe economic emergency, he hoped that Congress would have a bill to jump-start consumer demand ready to sign immediately upon taking office. And most Democrats supported Obama's position, though eleven House moderates defected, while a handful of their Senate colleagues joined with Republican moderates to water down the legislation. Economic forecasters projected that the original House bill would increase employment by 3.5 million. After the Senate rewrote the bill, forecasters downgraded their estimate to just 2.5 million. Moderates regarded their contribution with deep satisfaction.
It's a great read, and I hope we do better as a party. I think that it is possible that Repugs have invaded the party Machiavelli style. Why have the leaders of our party come from very fragile districts? North Dakota, Nevada. That insures that the party will always be as weak as those candidates from those states. Sen. Reid is very weak. Sen. Dashle was weak. He had to make commercials with him hugging Bush in his 2004 re-election campaign. Obama has 4 years to gets rid of the weak dems and get a few more Libs.