Compromise is destroying Obama’s presidency and won’t save America.  The recent House passage of the climate bill, aka, Energy Cap and Trade, has been discussed on this blog.  The House bill is worthless and the one that will emerge from the Senate will be even worse, if any at all.  Republicans decree that it is just another tax, but why anybody cares what Republicans think is beyond me.   Republicans won’t ever vote for any climate change bill — many of them don’t even believe in the science.  Republicans are all about money — it is their only true god.

George W Bush is a corporation pretending to be a person.   Although Obama is more of a person than Bush, he is still heavily influenced by the corporate, special interest culture that is destroying America.  I know that Obama cannot dictate to the Congress what should be in any bill; however, when the Congress comes up with crap, Obama needs to stand up and say so.  Stop pretending that America is making progress.  That is, even though many progressive activists supported Obama in the election, they still call out crap when they see it.  Greenpeace is one such organization.

Disillusioned Environmentalists Turn on Obama as Compromiser – NYTimes.com.

But over the last few months, as the ambitious climate legislation was watered down in the House without criticism from the president, Ms. Miller became disillusioned. She worried that the bill had been rendered meaningless — or had even undermined some goals Greenpeace had fought for. And she felt that the man she had thought of as her champion seemed oddly prone to compromise.

The corporate culture manipulates and bullies.  There are thousands of lobbyists who are paid big salaries to advocate for special interests.  As Senator Bernie Sanders pointed out on the Thom Hartman’s talk show, lobbyists don’t usually offer bribes to get votes –  it is far more evil than that.  Lobbyists are the friends of the elected and their goal is to get the elected representatives to see the world from their corporate world view.   For example, a lobbyist might readily agree that climate change is a bad thing but would argue that it isn’t that serious, it will put people out of work, and they would point out all the negatives for the constituents of the elected representatives.  It doesn’t matter if climate change represents an extinction event.

The same is happening with health care.  The same is happening with food production.  The same is happening with Wall Street reforms.  Corporations and special interests are getting their way.  Over time, they might even be successful at changing how the electorate view an issue.   These special interests will celebrate each time they render something good to a pile of crap and cash their paychecks.  But, make no mistake, they are destroying America and all the people, including their own children and grandchildren.

America is doomed.