So Ted Cruz Did the Politically Appropriate Thing....

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My biggest problem with Obama is he's a super conservative, and just as a toady of crony capitalism and big business. Keep in mind this is coming from a Progressive, and Obama and the Democrats just do not represent liberals, let alone progressives.

I don;t think he is a 'super conservative' but he is certainly a tool of business. There is no conceivable way such an inexperienced politician could possibly became president on his own merits. Frankly Big interests decided that they needed a black guy who didn't frighten white people and be their gimp.

He a corporatist, and that's the last thing the public needs. Do you think he's not going to okay the Keystone Pipeline, environmental and public safety concerns be damned? Not only that but his most likely Democratic successor will be Hillary, and she's just more of the same...

Republicans gutting the middle class, for the benefit of the oligarchs and corporations, and blaming it all on the poor. Democrats are guilty too, but they're still not as bad as the Republicans.

Both parties are utterly ruled by the corportations

Agreed, and it's why I support the move for a Constitutional Convention to add an Amendment to correct for the Citizens United decision, and to get money out of politics by ending the legal bribery of our elected officials. But also remember that the Democrats generally don't demonize the poor, homosexuals, minorities, immigrants, and women; their policies don't always help them either, but 'discrimination' is not a stance that they run on or are elected for.

Obama could nominate the most conservative, Republican friendly judge or other appointee, and the Republicans would oppose and filibuster the appointment purely on the basis that they were an Obama appointee. That's a level of knee-jerk hyperbole and opposition-for-the-sake-of-opposition that grinds the working of government to a halt.

I think you are wrong. Obama has made no effort towards bipartisanship whatsoever. he claimed he was going to unite America and America is even more divided than ever.

No effort? All he does is give the Republicans almost exactly what they want. The Democrats bring something to the table, the Republicans ask for something ridiculous, and Obama thinks he's being bipartisan by splitting things down the middle; ignorant of the fact that the Republicans still end up with most of the crazy shit they ask for. Even after all that, there are still jackasses like Rand Paul that will filibuster to shut down the government for their own political gain; and he still fights anything coming across the aisle tooth and nail. Fighting over the debt ceiling and holding the entire government hostage to the whims of the Tea Party hardliners in the House of Representatives? Accusing Obama of increasing debt when he's cut the 1.2 Trillion deficit that Bush left him, in half? The record amount of filibusters?

The Republicans are fucking nuts, and the Democrats have no spine.

Yeah, some people could no longer keep their insurance. Know why? In many cases it simply wasn't insurance, in others it was the companies themselves being dishonest. The insurance companies used this transition time to use people's ignorance and scare tactics to try an up-sell more expensive plans to their customers; never telling them that it would be possible to find a plan with comparable coverage for less on the exchanges. Paying $724 a month for a 'plan' with a $10,000 deductible is not insurance. Paying $50 a month for a plan to cover prescriptions that only cover up to $50 a month, is not a plan.

Pull the other one. Obama lied.

America doesn't need Obamacare. It needs socialised medicine. Obama's backers don;t want socialised medicine.

Was his exact quote a lie? Yes.

Is it a good thing that Insurance companies can no longer fuck people over as badly with the new standards, even if they have to lose their old 'plan' that was never really insurance in the first place? Yes.

Is it as scary as the fear mongers over on Fox, Bloomberg, and Politico make it out to be? Not even close.

Should we have a public option? Most assuredly.