It didn’t help that his own party was spineless, and possibly leaderless. Shall we add ‘clueless’?  All the Republicans and the Tea Party had to do, was keep their own base angry, and disenchant the President’s. Policy frustration has multiple benifits. After ‘hope and change’ fails, who will care who runs things if they all lie?  Paraphrasing a famous author about a different kind of politics, ’the thing about supporting a failed hope and change campaign, is that it takes to0 many weekend evenings for not enough result’  More or less.

And now Obama is on the brink of a presidential failure perhaps unparalleled in modern presidential history. The greatest unaddressed equality issue remaining in the modern industrialized world, equal access to quality health care is in danger of being rolled back. Imagine if you will if the result of the civil war were rolled back.

Its just that significant.