Federal agents raid marijuana dispensaries in Washington

[TheKentuckian]

124. Yep, Obama is desperately trying to end the drug war but the dastardly TeaPubliKlans

are blocking him at every turn!

They also won't allow him to stop dragnet surveillance of peaceable citizens here and around the globe. They keep forcing education deform on him. They shove drones down his throat. They force him to persecute whistle blowers at a record pace. They made him deport more migrants than Bush in less than half the time. They have muscled him into secret "free trade" negotiations. The beat goes on and on.

I'm not saying they are not obstructionist in the extreme because they sure as hell are but it isn't a catch all proposition.

Chiefly, the playground for obstruction is in policies that Republicans have traditionally accepted as reasonable tools for government to utilize in the economy but now act desperately to withhold because they think they will work which gives the opposition "wins" and siphons their branding which puts them in a position of consensus or forces them to a further extreme because there is not enough room politically to rationalize new policy tools between the previously supported minimal and corporate friendly ones now adopted by Democrats and none at all so in order to remain oppositional they have been pushed to none at all.

Thus, the espoused DLC strategy has failed. Rather than reaching consensus and some pie in the sky "happy medium", we have been forced to embrace positions that we opposed as the only alternative to radical, far right insanity that not long ago was considered extreme by the Republicans.
Sadly, this was the actual DLC strategy and it has succeeded beyond all hope. The effective political spectrum is entirely on the corporate embracing right, damn near a Goldwater/Buckley coalition with influences from Eisenhower versus a Thurmond/Falwell coalition built on the confederacy both deeply neocon.

Essentially, a right wing consensus that is undecided about maybe three things-if government is a tool to leverage corporate dominance or if government is an obstacle to such dominance. Should the right wing consensus be secular or theocratic in its nature. If the ruling class should reflect society demographically or be restricted to whites (which I think the love of globalization has made this one already over but is being played to hold a political block that can't be lost or Democrats would have no cover to press the agenda).