Sunday, October 24, 2010

What Happened to Change We Can Believe In?

1st and last ¶ of Daddy Frank's op-ed today about the economic mess we're in and why nobody's hangin' by their balls for it.

PRESIDENT Obama, the Rodney Dangerfield of 2010, gets no respect for averting another Great Depression, for saving 3.3 million jobs with stimulus spending, or for salvaging GM and Chrysler from the junkyard. And none of these good deeds, no matter how substantial, will go unpunished if the projected Democratic bloodbath materializes on Election Day. Some are even going unremembered. For Obama, the ultimate indignity is the Times/CBS News poll in September showing that only 8 percent of Americans know that he gave 95 percent of American taxpayers a tax cut.

We can blame much of this turn of events on the deep pockets of oil billionaires like the Koch brothers and on the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which freed corporations to try to buy any election they choose. But the Obama White House is hardly innocent. Its failure to hold the bust’s malefactors accountable has helped turn what should have been a clear-cut choice on Nov. 2 into a blurry contest between the party of big corporations and the party of business as usual.

If you're gonna make a half-assed attempt at changes, you gotta at least make a half-assed attempt to let people know about it. Half-assed is the best we can do as long as The Mighty Wurlitzer is runnin' full bore.

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