Republican.
Here's my complaint about the American Left:
Remember back in the days when Bush was "elected" over Gore? The argument the Left was proposing was that Bush and Gore were exactly the same.
And boy were they wrong about that.
The same thing is happening now to Obama. Of course, the terms the left uses are pretty vague, there normally aren't any specific policy differences. He "is" a Republican because he doesn't "fight" them. Or he's "capitulated" or something.
Which to me doesn't really make any sense. The Republicans have been fighting somebody tooth-and-nail since Obama was elected. They have been filibustering like crazy. I mean, they filibustered the 911 first responders bill. They're not going to let an extension of unemployment benefits go through.
And both morally and economically we need that extension. Now, Obama could be perfect ideologically and sit there and just say "I have principles and I won't allow you to extend Bush-era tax cuts for the rich and I don't care if that also means we won't extent unemployment insurance". But that would just shut down our entire economy and do dreadful things to the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.
And that, of course, would make him a Republican.
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