It has been obvious since before the inauguration when he chose Rahm Emanuel to be his chief of staff that, unlike FDR and Kennedy, Obama was all talk, hoping those who voted for him would be swayed by rhetoric into confusing motion, however limited and ineffectual, with real action.  In other words, like Bush and Reagan, the former whom he seems to emulate and protect, the latter to mistakenly revere, he is not a leader and not ready to govern. 

Obama and his corporate and Wall Street filled administration and the other Wussacrats and their leadership on Capitol Hill whose ongoing caving, DINO mind set was honed to perfection when the GOP was in the majority from 1995 to 2006 are ruining the Democratic Party.  Because of them and the Clintonites, it has become a twin of the Republican Party: controlled by corporations while the common good and general welfare be damned.

These Wussacrats are killing the Democratic Party. 

Christopher Hayes at The Nation writes about the most recent example:

"There's lots of progressive backlash in the blogosphere to the announcement that the president is going to call for a multi-year freeze on "non-security discretionary spending," in the State of the Union.

"The anger is totally justified, but I'll let others handle the policy of this. (Short version: it's criminally stupid).

"But let me talk about the politics. I'm sure that in the short term it polls well. Most voters don't have a great grasp of what makes up the federal budget and the fact that about two-thirds of what the government does is security and social insurance for the elderly. Thanks to decades of right-wing attacks on Big Government, many people think that most of what the government spends money on are things like food stamps and foreign aid.

"That's why this is so inexcusably insidious: because it uses the full power of the bully pulpit to reaffirm and endorse a kind of ignorance that the right-wing has spent years stoking, and in so doing further erodes what little conceptual and rhetorical foundation we have domestically for social democracy. It may be a head fake, the fine print may basically have a lot of loopholes, in which case the policy itself won't be terrible, but again it reinforces the enemy's narrative: that government spends too much on "programs," that defense and "security" spending doesn't count for the deficit and that times of economic misery and widespread unemployment the solution is fiscal austerity.

"I wish there was a way to sue for political malpractice, because what we're seeing from the White House and congressional Democrats these last two weeks would make for a depressingly good case."

What does the Democratic base intend to do about it?