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    Obama campaigned on "change you can believe in" and governed as "As much change as entrenched interests can stomach without…
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    • I agree with you that a tremendous opportunity was lost to seer the failures of the Bush administrations into people's…
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    • I think Obama made a calculation at the outset that he was going to try to push as much center-left…
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    • I actually don't think Obama is going to run into his bunker and spend the rest of his presidency "governing…
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    • I know, I know, he's denied it a million times, but I see two scenarios where the paradigm shifts and…
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    • It's damaging for the left to try to weaken Obama politically, and nobody wants to go through 1968 again.  But…
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    • I agree with 95% of your post.  Apart from the outliers like Jane and Cenk, i don't think HCR really…
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    • Obama's failure was to adapt to the new political reality of GOP obstructionism.  I think to any objective observer, its…
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    • Yea, didn't think of the Dodd thing.  Good point- he's been a good soldier and Obama didn't want any shrapnel…
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    • I still haven't anyone give a compelling argument for why that kind of hardball is a bad thing?  Booman and…
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    • Perhaps this is why Reid and Obama haven't similarly adapted and molded the democratic party into a parliamentary party.  I'd…
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    • You should elaborate that when you have a chance. I think what's interesting about Gregg's comment is that he has…
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    • And sort of bizarre that he would phrase it as such.  Gregg (and McConnel) I suspect was behind the transformation…
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    • Burned by the Nader experience, During the political wilderness years of 2000-2008, progressives fully supported the party and its campaign…
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    • Obviously I'm more in the Booman/Al camp than the FDL, but I think its way too early for post-mortems like…
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    • The quickest way out of power is to pass unpopular legislation (something we should be keeping in mind right now).…
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    • And they built in a lot of ways for us to change and interpret the Constitution to adjust to the…
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    • Purity tests are bad and a big tent is key to majorities in congress.  I think the best approach is…
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    • Don't think it makes sense to blame them for this mess.  Their vision of the senate is so far off…
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    • I just disagree how Obama and Reid are adapting to this new dynamic.  You've correctly pointed out that the GOP…
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