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In reply to the discussion: Hey Unsensible Emo Prog Firebaggers: This Time I'm *Sure* I Got It Right!!! [View all]Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)he can put on the table. Look, Obama is trying to play the long game here, IMHO. He is trying to demonstrate to millions of Americans that Democrats are the reasonable and responsible party of government. Looking ahead to 2016, there will be bruising primaries for both parties and the party that comes across as the best suited to govern will win. I doubt we'll find another candidate with Obama's built in constituency. Historically, Americans rarely keep the same party in the WH for more than 2 terms...so 2016 is going to be tough sledding.
What the country needs, in order to recover some semblance of fiscal and social sanity is at least 12 more years of Dems in the WH and controlling the senate. 2013 through 2024. We also need to take back the House. If we do all that, the GOP will have no choice but to dump the extremist right wing agenda. If we make ourselves appear as incompetent as the current teabagger/GOP the nation will be mired in this mess for decades.