Thank you LiberatedClownfor the inspiration
The public option is dead, because he won't tell Pelosi to yank committee seats and put peoples' offices in the basement. He has continued and expanded Bush policies on civil liberties, FISA, state secrets, Military Commissions Act, detention without trial. He protects torturers. And now he has sent many more young men to their deaths in Afghanistan, in a economically-driven insurgency, with no better explanation than Bush-era fear-mongering about Al Q, who number perhaps 400 tops on both sides of the Af-Pak border.
When the impeach Bush movement was in full swing it was ridiculed at this site with "just get Obama elected and he'll fix everything." Let's face it folks. We've been took. He has taken off the mask and chosen, he has sided with the pharma-corporate-military industrial complex, and from now on he will be playing the "Stick it to them they have no place else to go" game with progressives.
During impeachment we were arguing that the Executive never gives back powers it has grabbed, not even Obama...
The only surprise for me is how quickly and adeptly he continued Bush's Executive power grab. God help us if these powers, warrantless spying, indefinite detention, ever get passed down to a Sarah Palin.
As far as the Teabaggers, many of them are frightened and misguided. Theirs are the kids getting sent to Iraq and Afghanistan in disproportionate numbers, and it is heartbreaking to try to tell someone that their child died for lies and Halliburton. Once they wake up, and we all cry in each others arms, seeing Bush, Obama, et al as all extensions of the same creature, God help those corrupt men in the nation's capitol. God help them. Primary Obama.