Poor pyumas. I feel sorry for them. I really do! In their rage and bitterness when they realized Hillary Clinton wasn’t going to be the nominee via the primary system, first they pinned all their hopes on the superdelegates overturning the process. FAIL.
Then they rooted for McFailin to defeat Obama. FAIL.
Then they thought the election of Scott Brown would scuttle health care reform. FAIL.
Then they rooted for the GOP Party of No strategy to tie Obama down like Gulliver, rendering him totally ineffective. FAIL-FAIL-FAIL:*
-Health Reform which will get insurance to an additional 32 million people and establishes as the default setting of the country that it is the responsibility of the govenment to get you insurance if you can’t get it yourself
-Financial Reform containing the most sweeping regulations since the depression including the creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency to be headed by Elizabeth Warren. This would have been a pipe dream just a couple of years ago
-A recovery Act that included the largest middle class tax cut ever. The largest investment in education ever. The largest investment in clean energy ever. And one of the largest investments in infrastructure since the depression. And oh yeah, it also stopped a depression from happening. He also did this while only having 57 functioning Democrats in the Senate at the time.
-Ledbetter Fair Pay Act For Women
-Largest land conservation bill in nearly 20 years
-Student Loan Reform
-Rescued the entire friggin Auto Industry
-Consumer Credit Card Protection Act
-Tons of new tobacco regulations
-Matthew Sheppard Hate Crimes Bill
-Most funding for the Veteran’s Administration. EVER.
-Passed a National Service Bill that tripled the size of America Corps
-Expanded S-Chip getting health care to millions of more kids
-Passed the “Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act”
-Weapons System and Acquisition Reform where for the first time in ages weapons systems were actually cut
-The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act
-Reduced the mandatory minimum on crack to be more in line with cocaine
-He INTEGRATED THE WHOLE FUCKING MILITARY FOR GAY PEOPLE and in addition to that made progress on hospital visitation rights and created a package of domestic partnership benefits for all Federal workers
-Lifted the travel/immigration ban on those with HIV/AIDS
-Eased up on the stupid Cuba embargo
-Brought home all combat troops from Iraq
-Banned torture
-Reversed Bush global gag rule
-Expanded Stem Cell Research
-Put first ever Latina on the Supreme Court
-Made it substantially easier for Vetrans with PTS Disorder to get benefits
-Officially lists all White House Visitors online
-Passed the most progressive budget bill in a generation
-Ended raids on places that sell medical marijuana
-Will likely have a historic Arms agreement with Russia
-Overhauled ALL OF OUR FOOD SAFETY LAWS
Just look at it from the pyuma perspective: Not only has Obama accomplished far more in two years than their hero Bill Clinton did in eight, Obama did it while facing unprecedented GOP opposition in Congress, two wars GWB started, the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression and an unprecedented mobilization of wingnut political cash courtesy of GWB’s Supreme Court nominees and teatard astroturfing outfits. Oh, and Hillary Clinton joined Team Obama and has been a pretty darn good and explicitly loyal Secretary of State.
How maddening this all must be! No wonder they’re reduced to stunts like adopting issues they never mentioned during the primaries as their signature causes. No wonder they are darkly predicting that the repeal of DADT will hand the GOP the cudgel it needs to beat the Democrats in 2012. No wonder they’re fondling grievances (net neutrality, Gitmo, Geithner, etc.) like a rosary.
It’s kind of sad.
*List courtesy of commenter Volagsrule at BooMan’s place.
