Is This Barack Obama's 2nd Term? Is it Bill Clinton's 3rd? Or Is It Ronald Reagan's 9th?

[DissidentVoice]

45. The bloody DLC

I blame the Democratic Leadership Council, who have moved Heaven and Earth (and succeeded) to make the Democratic Party as "Republican Lite" as possible, to be "electable," since the Republican machine has succeeded in moving the entire political spectrum further to the right than any time in history. They have also succeeded at making "liberal" equivalent to "mass murderer" in the eyes of the voting public. Thanks be to Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter, and Fox for convincing so many that a "true patriot" is someone in a "red state" who always, unfailingly votes Republican and that anyone who does otherwise is tantamount to a "Stalinist."

FDR would never have recognised the Democratic Party of today. Today's Democratic Party are Jerry Ford Republicans for the most part.

Take health care...first off, I recognise that the ACA is more than we ever have, or ever will have, gotten from the Republican Party. I am also extremely disappointed that Mr Obama did not push for single-payer (he wasn't going to get any Republicans on board anyway, so why try by kissing the insurance industry's arse?) and that he caved on the "public option"...I was almost as disappointed as I was when Bill Clinton rolled over and played dead after the Republicans wouldn't even allow his health reform plan to come to a floor vote, and then how he jumped on "the era of big government is over!" bandwagon. I almost stayed home/voted for Ross Perot in '96, but in the end I held my nose and voted for him again.

I am also very disillusioned that Mr. Obama has not followed through with his promise to close Guantanamo Bay, and that the embargo on travel against Cuba remains in place.

However, probably my biggest, most intractable pain in the arse is that Mr. Obama has not pushed for scrapping/repealing the USA Patriot Act, but has left it in place.

Have our Democrats forgotten how to be DEMOCRATS?