It's been 3 1/2 years, Obama and the Dems controlled policy for the first 2 years. They could have raised taxes on the "rich' in 2009, and 2010, with no need to compomise. Each elected Congress isn't bound by the prior Congress. If that were true, what is the point of elections? Obama and the Dems didn't and still haven't passed a budget, he resign the Patriot Act, he added $5 Trillion in new debt.
These were Obama's responses to the "Bush Meltdown". That is the record Obama is running from. That is why the national debate is about the phoney "war on women" and now gay marriage.
~Obama has overhauled the food safety system
~Advanced women's rights in the work place
~Ended Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT) in our military
~Stopped defending DOMA in court.
~Passed the Hate Crimes bill.
~Appointed two pro-choice women to the Supreme Court.
~Expanded access to medical care and provided subsidies for people who can't afford it.
~Expanded the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
~Fixed the preexisting conditions travesty [and rescissions] in health insurance.
~Invested in clean energy.
~Overhauled the credit card industry, making it much more consumer-friendly.
~While Dodd-Frank bill was weak in many respects, it was still an extremely worthwhile start at re-regulating
the financial sector.
~He created The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
~He's done a lot for veterans
~He got help for people whose health was injured during the clean-up after the 9/11 attacks.
None of these things were priorities for Republicans. They actively opposed, directly or indirectly through
obstruction, every single item on this list. In fact, they succeeded in killing a Cap & Trade bill in the Senate
after it had passed through the House.
And in his spare time, Obama has:
~ Killed Osama Bin Laden
~Eliminated several other Al-Qaeda leaders
~Ended the War in Iraq
~Begun the drawdown of forces from Afghanistan
~Passed Obama Care
~Saved one million US Auto workers jobs...
Cicero being (I assume) a man sees no GOP war on women... But women in this country recognize the threat
from the GOP.
Cicero's "national debate on gay marriage" isn't Obama's doing. Obama hasn't passed any gay marriage laws
or even proposed them. It's the Republican Marriage Police who are forcing the issue into the public with their
War against Human Rights.