Reply #208: He is continuing much of the "sorry state"

[zipplewrath]

The bush tax cuts have been in place for 4 more years. Gitmo is not only open, but he publicly announced he has no plans to close it, only move it to Illinois, and he's expanded its cousin in Bagrham. He tripled the forces in Afghanistan (I don't remember him ever expressing a desire to triple the troops there during the campaign). He kept on Gates, and executed Bush's SOFA. He has advocated the indefinite detention of detainees collected by Bush. He continued the restraint on drug price negotiation, and advocated for the prevention of drug importation. He started a 3rd war with Libya and called it "humanitarian". He advocates "extra-judicial" killings. He advocates FOR the patriot act. He has done NOTHING with NAFTA despite campaigning on renegotiation. He worked to defend the bankers bonuses, and accomplished little to nothing on mortgage cramdowns. No one has gone to jail other than whistle blowers and Bradley Manning. He announced he "had the backs" of the tortures in the CIA. He classified the torture photos.

And he continues to advocate Bush/Reagan type policies like free trade, lower taxes, and entitlement reform, along with NCLB type changes and methods to education, and endorsed the wholesale firing of and entire school system of teachers. He picked up the GOP health insurance reform proposal (his words) of 1995 and made it the center piece of his HCR.

Those are the 3 steps back. Yes, you can go on and on about the two forward, the but overall trend is there. We are moving to the right, including the courts, where his two new appointees just voted to support SCALIA's decision eroding our 4th admentment rights.