Last Night’s Lesson: It Aint Rocket Science

It’s not about accomplishing my personal laundry list of wishes. It’s about forward progress – or even effort – from the Oval office. The White House didn’t say one word about the Maine referendum to protect LBGT marriage equality. AG Holder even said last week that he didn’t “know enough about it” to comment, which was both a lie and a slap in the face. Obama hasn’t fought a lick for the pro-labor Employee Free Choice Act or the Employment Non-Discrimination Act known as ENDA. And please don’t mention on Afghanistan, Iraq or the Wall Street bailouts. Please don’t mention an economic policy geared toward socializing debt and privatizing profit. There is no effort coming from the White House that moves the people toward the direction that people rallied, campaigned, and voted for in 2008and that is an indictment of this administration. It also reveals something very bankrupt about the nature of our political system and the Democratic Party. The people spoke and it mattered little. Now we need to do more.

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