Beck: "I no longer support the military actions that we're in -- the way we're doing them. ... [W]e are creating another Vietnam"

I will give it a shot Bruce.

Bush said no to more troops just last year.
Bailouts pretty much had to conitnue once they were started. You would not want to know what it might be like had all these instituions gone under.
Health reform will go through.
Tax increases for the wealthy and the repealing of the Bush tax cuts are one in the same the and Obama always said he would just let them expire at the end of 2010.
Don't as don't tell. At least he did not just do it all on his won to appease his base. He is gettign military input, and anwya, I think he needs congress to do it.
Dismal job creation. Jobs losses are always the last to appear when a recession starts and the last to improve when a recession recovers. Anyway, I though the right says government cannot create jobs. (Michael Steele).

i AGREE with most of what you said but do you think it has anything to do with the entire republican party vehemently opposing every single thing obama tries to get done. If we have a watered down bill - it will be because the GOP and four fake democrats yanked all the reform out of the reform bill. If it has no teeth and is totally ineffective, who exactly do you think caused this to happen? the GOP, leibermann, nelson, landreiu and Lincoln. There is nothing the dems can do except get it through reconciliation and hope to salvage some form of the public option. But such slaps in the face will not go without retribution. Lincoln is up for re-election in 2010. Leib is holding a chairmanship in the democratic caucus. Liberals know this! There will be severe political repurcussions for threatening to filibuster their own caucus.

Bailouts were passed and signed into law by Bush idiot. This was not obama. Plus, you conveniently left out the stimulus act which was one of the few more liberal things obama has done. Also, it should be known that both regulation of wall street (god knows what will end up passing) and a bill to address environmental concerns are already in the works in various committees. This fricken healthcare bill is taking forever but committees are writing up bills for future reform while they wait.

And your not wrong about repealing the bush tax cuts but Obama is increasing taxes on the richest 5 percent. He did it already i BELIEVE and I think some version(s) of the healthcare legislation discuss further tax increases on the super rich.

Also, while I dont agree at all with continued escalation of afghanistan and I think its like to end badly, it should be noted throughout the campaign obama consistently said he would elevate troop levels in afghanistan. Hopefully, the actual plan will become more clear over the coming week.

Interesting point...

They'll go right along because most of them are as hypocritical as Beck.

They will do exactly what beck did. Instead of thinking for themselves, they will decide they still support the war but don't support "HOW Obama is handling it." Whatever that means. He is handling it by doing exactly what the braindead teabags want, he is increasing troop levels dramatically as the general asked. I think this is going to destroy obama if he lets this war last through 2012. Obama has the perfect lessons of history setup before him in LBJ.

Johnson is considered one of the great presidents for passing landmark reforms like medicare and he played a proactive role in passing such laws. He did the arm twisting. He told congress what he needed in the bill and they got it down. LBJ has gone down in history as only mediocre as a whole because he became obsessed with vietnam and listened to a whirlwind of advisors who were all advocating for it. And vietnam turned out to be the downfall of one of the most historic presidencies in regards to progress and change.

Obama is fast with almost identical tasks. He wants to pass numerous reform bills through a divided congress to address a myriad of social, environmental, economic and political problems. And he has a war that is slowly losing support from the country and which requires excessive troop elevation and he is likely surrounded by people who are telling him he cant pull out now. So what do you do Mr President? YOU LEARN FROM HISTORY!!!

You follow in LBJ's footsteps on passing reform. You should be out there, twisting arms, making threats even bribes to congressman and dictating to reid and pelosi exactly what you think each bill MUST have. So far, you are getting a D in this and only because of a lack of a clear visual. I dont see you arm twisting. I certainly dont see you demanding a strong public option or you won't sign it. I dont see you threatening leibs or nelson or lincoln to throw them out of the caucus and remove all chairmanships.

As for the war, well just do what LBJ did not. Make sure that we have a clear exit plan. Make sure that you do not send even one more troop in before you set a date to begin taking troops out. MAKE SURE you do not allow this war to continue through the end of 2011. If we are still fighting in afghanistan in 2012, you will not be re-elected. This war will end up being your downfall.

Remember, the request was for 40k and Obama is giving 34k. That gives the wingnutz 6,000 reasons to hammer Obama. They will find stuff to hammer him on for this decision.

I might add . .

How silly of President Obama NOT to include Becky when planning the military strategy in Afghanistan.