Reply #51: Grayson has it exactly right

[MissDeeds]

This administration wasn't elected to appease the Rethugs, and yet that is what has happened. This pandering to the right cost us dearly on Tuesday, and the ramifications are going to be felt for the next two years - and beyond unless someone in this administration gets a clue, gets angry, grows some gonads, and does what it/he was elected to do. Voters in 2008 wanted change, not appeasement and compromise.

We lost a lot of good Democrats Tuesday who should not have been voted out of office. Missouri Congressman Emanuel Cleaver said that the election was like a drive-by shooting in which innocent victims were hit by gunfire directed at someone else. Obama himself said that he took responsibility for good public servants losing their positions. One would hope he'd learn, yet today he was talking 'compromise' while McConnell and Boehner were telling reporters what they expect and what they will and will not accept. They are defining the rules and setting the limits. Next they will be setting the agenda.

This has to stop. Obama was elected to govern, and he damn well better let them - and us - know that is what he is going to do.