Reply #21: The buck stops ... THERE!

[TexasObserver]

His concessions to GOP powers and interests have alienated a lot of voters, some of them voters who voted for CHANGE in 2008. They're pissed at the lack of leadership by congress and the administration. The country judged him on his effort the first six months, but the last six months, they judge him on his failure to come through on things promised.

I hope the president will stop laying off blame on things other than the lack of leadership by his administration and his party's congressional leaders. He has time to turn this around, but not if he continues to ignore the good advice he has gotten from the party's warriors such as Howard Dean.

"Yes, we can!" was a great campaign slogan.

"No, we can't, because the industry lobbyists won't agree to it" isn't much of a campaign slogan.

He needs to study FDR and LBJ, and see if he can figure out why and how they did great things, then apply those lessons to his current quagmire.