Eliot Spitzer on Obama's First Year

Spitzer who knows a thing or two about taking on established power, points out in the above video and in his 26-Jan. 2010 State article how Mr. Obama can re-assert the progressive liberal agenda in which he was elected to enact and save the Democrats from electoral defeat in the 2010 midterm elections.

In the article he basically calls Rahm Emanuel (WH Chief of Staff), Larry Summers (Director of the National Economic Council), and Tim Geithner (US Secretary of the Treasury) incompetent political operatives who are a liability to both the Obama presidency and the nation as a whole.

He also contends that the president's working model is useless and Obama needs to aggressively control the legislative process, rather than ceding it to congressional weaklings.

It is time for President Obama to imitate Lyndon Johnson and Franklin Roosevelt: define the progressive agenda and impose party discipline, use the 59 votes in the Senate—still an overwhelming majority—and an equally robust majority in the House to make every effort to pass the critical pieces of the Democratic agenda and then let the Republicans try to counter.

Mr. Obama has failed repeatedly over the past year to heed the criticisms of those on his left-flank.  As a result, both him and the Democrats, by underwhelming and playing footsie with K-Street, are posed to lose massively in the 2010 midterm elections to the Republicans; whose only solution to America's problems is more war and less taxes.  If he wants the Democrats to continue being an appendage of the corporate state, then he should prepare himself to vacate the White House in 2012, because few who voted for a reformist agenda, to correct the extravagances of the Bush junta, will bother to do so again with the present course of action.