On March 4, 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated, the last president to be officially sworn in during the month of March.

Immediately following that inauguration FDR and his cabinet members like Frances Perkins and Henry A. Wallace and other officials like Rexford Tugwell and Harry Hopkins set to work changing this country by repairing the damage and destruction inflicted by the Republican Hoover administration that helped cause the Great Depression.

FDR was also working with a Democratic majority in the House and Senate.

In his book, Nothing To Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America, Adam Cohen writes:

"...in just over three months, the federal government changed from being a nearly passive observer of its citizens' problems to an active force in solving them.  From this point on, it would be a matter of concern in Washingt when farmers were unable to support themselves, when depositors lost their life savings in failed banks, and when parents could not afford to feed their childrem..."

"The legislation passed during the Hundred Days includes: the Emergency Banking Act, March 9; the Economy Act, March 20; the Civilian Conservation Corps, March 31; abandonment of the gold standard, April 19; the Federal Emergency Relief Act, May 12; the Agricultural Adjustment Act, May 12; the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act, May 12; the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, May 18; the Truth in Securities Act, May 27; the abrogation of the gold clause in public and private contracts, June 5; the Home Owners' Loan Act, June 13; the National Industrial Recovery Act, June 16; the Glass-Steagall Banking Act, June 16; the Farm Credit Act, June 16, and the Railroad Coordination Act, June 16."

Some of this legislation laid the foundation for Social Security enactment in 1935 and other legislation still helping Americans today.

Now, in the 21st century, we have a new Democratic president, with a Democratic majority in Congress, and a country reeling from another deep recession with Great Depression unemployment numbers, again caused, as in 1929 and the early thirties, by a greedy, crooked Wall Street, aided and abetted by another criminal GOP regime, this time that of George W. Bush.

And, compared to FDR and his administration, what has the Obama administration accomplished for the struggling American people, forget the 100 days, during its first 200 days now?

A watered down "stimulus" with nowhere near adequate funds to effectively stimulate the economy that the GOP heavily damaged

A nightmarish, bailout (begun by the former Bushite regime and continued by the Obama team and Congress, before any effective oversight was in place) of crooked financial institutions that perpetrated the economic meltdown and now refuse to make loans and no re-instatement of the Glass-Steagall Act which a former Democratic president, Bill Clinton, and his Treasury Secretary, Robert Rubin, halped repeal setting the stage for this meltdown.

And this latest by an apparently corporatist controlled White House (corporate money already controls Congress) reported in the NYTimes:  "Pressed by industry lobbyists, White House officials on Wednesday assured drug makers that the administration stood by a behind-the-scenes deal to block any Congressional effort to extract cost savings from them beyond an agreed-upon $80 billion.

"Drug industry lobbyists reacted with alarm this week to a House health care overhaul measure that would allow the government to negotiate drug prices and demand additional rebates from drug manufacturers.

"In response, the industry successfully demanded that the White House explicitly acknowledge for the first time that it had committed to protect drug makers from bearing further costs in the overhaul. The Obama administration had never spelled out the details of the agreement.

“We were assured: ‘We need somebody to come in first. If you come in first, you will have a rock-solid deal,’  Billy Tauzin, the former Republican House member from Louisiana who now leads the pharmaceutical trade group, said Wednesday. 'Who is ever going to go into a deal with the White House again if they don’t keep their word? You are just going to duke it out instead.'

"Representative Raul M. Grijalva, the Arizona Democrat who is co-chairman of the House progressive caucus, called Mr. Tauzin’s comments “disturbing.”

“ 'We have all been focused on the debate in Congress, but perhaps the deal has already been cut,' Mr. Grijalva said. 'That would put us in the untenable position of trying to scuttle it.”

He added: “It is a pivotal issue not just about health care. Are industry groups going to be the ones at the table who get the first big piece of the pie and we just fight over the crust?' "

"The so called health care reform hi-jinks by the Obama administration is a Rube Goldberg, busy getting dizzy exercise inevitably doomed to fail even if passed.

Dave Lindorff, who describes this ongoing health care reform disaster:: "...nothing but a Potemkin Health Plan that looks on the outside like a reform, but that changes little or nothing, leaves vast numbers of Americans uninsured, forces tens of millions to buy crappy plans from private companies, and that will end up doing nothing to halt the continuing rise in health care costs that is bankrupting the people, employers, and the country."

This brief comparison between the Obama administration's first seven months to FDR's first 100 days is a no brainer. 

Obviously, while better than a McCain regime which would have destroyed an already GOP Bush damaged nation, this administration is still too Republican-lite, corporatist, and ignores traditional Democratic Party principles that uphold and work for the common good.

Compared to FDR's first 100 days, the Obama administration fails miserably.