Reply #4: Those with a media pulpit do the country a great disservice by being ignorant about this

[CakeGrrl]

and spreading it far and wide rather than being realistic about how government functions.

There's a notion out there that all the Dems have to do is propose a tax cut for the middle class and raise it on the wealthy, and we're good.

Yes, that could work if you had a SOLID Dem/Progressive House of Representatives and a FILIBUSTER-PROOF Senate majority. But there's no way in hell the Teabaggers would go for that. They are there to enforce the desire NOT to tax the rich even more strongly than moderate Republicans.

Another problem is the romantic notion that President Obama is not channelling his inner LBJ and staring down those unruly Congressmen into voting his way. I want someone to say with a straight face that that would work with ANYONE they want to see in the WH.

It boggles my mind how so many people seem to have forgotten how Congress works. They'll say we had all three houses when President Obama came in, but you indicated in your OP why that was a fiction, never mind the fact that the 60-vote Dem majority was only in session for 49 days as was pointed out the other day, and one of those votes was Lieberman, and a few were Blue Dogs.

SOLID DEM/PROGRESSIVE HOUSE.

FILIBUSTER-PROOF MAJORITY IN SENATE.

That's what will work. If people think they're just going to try and replace the President and all will be well, they're dreaming.