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If it didn’t have such tragic consequences for the rest of us I would laugh so let’s see paid off by the pharmaceutical companies, the banks, Imelt (GE), Soros, etc., etc.

Do you think his base will ever catch on? This is a pretty scathing article from another leftist add this to Taiibi maybe some of them are...

The president famously told bankers he stood between them and pitchforks. Presumably he meant the pitchforks are country rubes like myself and 250 million Americans who think that when troops give their lives to serve our nation, bankers who get huge bailouts might ask what they can do for our country, instead of enriching themselves to levels that historians will discuss for a hundred years.

It is not the job of the president to protect the fat cats from the proper wrath of the people. It is the job of the president to protect the people from the improper abuse of the fat cats.

And now: Congress may pass a healthcare bill that would help insurance CEOs making $10 million a year spend a generation raising premiums even further, while certain senators who take their money work to defeat a public option that would serve the nation and lower the deficit and that is supported by a majority of the people.

And now: Drug companies that concluded a secret deal with the White House to raise drug prices by almost 10 percent work to defeat proposals to allow import of lower-priced drugs that would serve the consumer and lower the deficit, and that are supported by a majority of the people.

http://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/brent-budowsky/72169-obamas-fat-cats

Of course, it would have been better for Obama to inform himself better before issuing foolish campaign promises that he would later have to reverse. But that would have meant less populist pap, and probably would have put Hillary Clinton in the White House.

Well, he simply lied to get elected. Isn't that what corrupt politicians do?