Appeals court upholds voter ID law

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37. That's because Democrats weren't fired up by racism and corporate propaganda like Republicans.

It's kind of hard to defeat the enthusiasm of the Tea Party when it's animated by the kind of stupidity that ignores reason. The fact that Obama was a black man got a good chunk of the Republican base to vote, and the mistaken notion that Obama was also a Muslim got even more of them out to vote.

The stimulus package was a good deal, and it did receive broad support. The health insurance law with a Public Option was broadly supported in polls run at the time until idiots like Baucus and other right-wing Democrats torpedoed the Public Option in Senate negotiations. Then, the Bush tax cuts were extended in exchange for a temporary extension of unemployment insurance. In both, liberals did gnash their teeth.

The problem in the Senate is that there were insufficient numbers of Democrats to enact the kind of changes on the scale of LBJ or FDR. Obama came into the poker game with far weaker cards. He didn't have enough liberal Democrats to push through that scale of change. If he were working with the New Deal Senate/House that passed into law Social Security, things would've been different.