Democratic senators have pushed through abolishing of DADT and 9/11 first responder support with which Obama in the locker room on the unable to perform list. Obama pushed the START treaty approval, with success, and with the DREAM act which he failed to push through. He could've easily include the DREAM act and the START treaty in the massive give away to the Republicans that included billions for billioners, he didn't because his thinking is way too conservative and too simplistic.
Flying to Hawaii for year-end vacation, he was proud of a long, false and empty list of successes. Health care, some good achievement and largely a colossal fiasco, financial reform, in which the reform is minimal and insignificant, the initial stimulus that was tiny and insufficient, abolishment of DADT, which he did nothing about, and finally the START treaty approval, which indeed is something he owns.
Overall, Obama is a miserable disappointment. He did't realize the severity of unemployment until 18 months into his term. He continued most of Bush security related programs and extended and enlarged the war in Afghanistan.
The lame duck session indicates that Democrats can do well without him until 2012 and with him running in 2012, they are sure to lose both the Senate and the presidency. Get rid of him. Declare independence from Obama. Declare that Obama doesn't represent Democrats anymore. He is very much like Lieberman: mostly Republican. Expel him from the Democratic Party.
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