How The Democrats Blew Their Mandate

huffingtonpost.com — The day after their victory and near sweep of Congress Democrats could have announced that they would forcefully push for an FDR style jobs and relief program, clamp a tight ceiling on executive compensation for all banks and financial houses that got taxpayer bailout dollars, prohibit all stock speculation, swaps and manipulation by the same banks and financial houses that got bailout money, require that they fully open the lending spigot to distressed home owners, businesses and industry. They would have been widely hailed for acting like Democrats in more than just name. The public would have applauded Obama as the true second coming of FDR, and the party as a genuine reform party. The Democrats did none of these things.

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