I really liked and enjoyed Mike Konczal’s piece on the losing well in politcal terms. It seems to me that we were hoodwinked into believing that Obama was a progressive, or even a liberal. When all that he has shown to be is a politician focusing on the short term, what can I achieve. Mike makes the point in relation to immigration policy, but the point could be made in financial policy, tax cuts…
Mike says:
Whenever Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-Ill.) and other immigrant-rights advocates asked President Obama how a Democratic administration could preside over the greatest number of deportations in any two-year period in the nation’s history, Obama’s answer was always the same.
Deporting almost 800,000 illegal immigrants might antagonize some Democrats and Latino voters, Obama’s skeptical supporters said the president told them, but stepped-up enforcement was the only way to buy credibility with Republicans and generate bipartisan support for an overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws.
On Saturday, that strategy was in ruins after Senate Democrats could muster only 55 votes in support of the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act…
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