Where are the Old School Democrats? Obama needs HELP!

"As for the Democrats, they have been both pragmatic and moderate, despite all the claims that this plan is "left wing" or "socialist." It is neither."

Democrats have NOT been pragmatic and moderate. Obama had to negotiate this bill behind closed doors with health industry and biotech CEO's. That's how "moderate" it is from a (genuinely) Democratic perspective.

The truth is as follows: Obama is a conservative Republican himself. To win his election, like the elections of Diane Feinstein in CA, he had to change his party label, which Diane does from election to election.

Of course, as this author himself admits -- single payer is the RIGHT way to go. Given the logic here that the Republicans will vote NO on anything Obama produces, why is the common sense maneuver to push through single pay AGGRESSIVELY not happening? It's because of what I've stated over and over again and a fact admitted in this article: Obama legislates, thinks, and feels as a CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN.

It's not just the Republicans, as this author observes, who've moved so far to the right that they are barely recognizable, as Republicans; the Democrats have done exactly the same thing.

SO what we have here, from a higher point of view, is a solidly Republican congress. You have the Republican scavengers, hateful of all government on the severe right, and then you have the rest of the Congress: moderate right wingers who are neo-liberal free market (solidly Republican, like Max Baucus) worshippers keeping government participation at an absolute minimum. We have a whole slew of Democrats who as a central feature of the political philosophy want to reduce government's involvement in all spheres of life. The reason"? It's a central tenet of neo-liberalism that government is inherent evil, "the problem" to be overcome. It's Adam Smith all over again.

Here's what we need: a return of the Democratic party of the 60s, Democrats who have faith in "big government." We need a return of the social state, only done better than it ever has been done before, as we see in GREEN and WAR FREE Scandinavia.

We need an Oval Office and Congress filled with Bernie Sanders-like-politicians. Otherwise, it's "meet the new boss, same as the old boss."