{"id":522881,"date":"2010-04-10T12:30:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T16:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=77688"},"modified":"2010-04-10T12:30:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T16:30:33","slug":"poor-poor-pitiful-me-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/522881","title":{"rendered":"Poor Poor Pitiful Me.  NOT."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='hitEmbed_right'><object width=\"325\" height=\"263\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KKv_vJks2gM&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x3a3a3a&#038;color2=0x999999\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KKv_vJks2gM&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x3a3a3a&#038;color2=0x999999\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"325\" height=\"263\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>One of the more darkly amusing things over the past year has been how, whenever President Obama and Congressional Dems shiv the Democratic base on something, a loud and strangely organized chorus erupts from Obama&#8217;s habitual defenders to the effect that it&#8217;s not their fault as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/opinion\/glenn_greenwald\/2010\/02\/23\/democrats\/index.html\">the poor man and the Dems are just too powerless<\/a> to influence those big old mean Republicans controlling Congress with a 40- or 41-seat minority.<\/p>\n<p>However, as Jane has documented copiously with health care reform and Bmaz and EW with legal issues, and Glenn Greenwald seconding them both, Obama has profound influence over both parties in Congress, and plenty of power on his own, and isn&#8217;t afraid to use it to get what he wants &#8212; such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/opinion\/glenn_greenwald\/2010\/04\/07\/assassinations\/index.html\">the murder without trial of American citizens<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s sit back here and create a list of the things for which Obama and the Democrats in Congress have really and truly fought for &#8212; and against.  Time to nip this &#8220;Oh, he&#8217;s so pitifully powerless!&#8221; myth in the bud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=77688&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_77688\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><br style='clear:none' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more darkly amusing things over the past year has been how, whenever President Obama and Congressional Dems shiv the Democratic base on something, a loud and strangely organized chorus erupts from Obama&#8217;s habitual defenders to the effect that it&#8217;s not their fault as the poor man and the Dems are just too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4940,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4940"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}