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Originally Posted by Nate the great
So he's actually going to do something? When, exactly?
Everyone keeps comparing Obama to Roosevelt, but so far he's been as effective as Herbert Hoover.
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Roosevelt had a Congress that wanted to get things done. Obama is faced with both Republican refusal to do anything other than say no and the blue dog democrats who are more worried about women's reproductive rights than about getting America going again.
It is darn hard to get something accomplished when you want to cut out military hardware that even the military doesn't want but ceertain congresspersons do want.
It's equally hard to get things going when you can't get your nominees in office because partisan politics puts a hold on them.
And it's very hard to get things going when the very first thing you need to is plug the leaks in the dike that the previous administration so gallantly opened (after all, Cheney's buddies such as Halliburton and KKR did great under Bush and so weathered the downturn with ease).
One year is insufficient time to turnaround the colossus we call home. Even Roosevelt needed a few years.