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(24,717 posts)Pres Obama is a community organizer at heart. He is simply working around Congress and working for the people. With this, and the benefits - such as they are - of Obamacare - he knows he's got folks behind him. Congress is going to reveal themselves for the pigs they are, if they fight these things the majorities want so much.
I think he should also go for gun control, taxing the rich, jobs bills, and all those other initiatives that have well over 50% of Americans behind them. Just come out with it; be transparent; name it for what it is, and let the Republican Congress reveal themselves - and fight all of us.
This is the silver lining: no more political IOUs from Pres Obama to any Congressional Dems. They turned their backs on him in the mid-terms, and look what it got them. I think this is an opportunity for him to be the guy we elected. Mr. Hope and Change.
Fingers crossed.