What now for the Democrats?

Robert Kuttner, Co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect:

Let's stop pretending. Barack Obama is a disaster as a crisis president. He has taken an economic collapse that was the result of Republican ideology and Republican policies, and made it the Democrats' fault. And the more that he is pummeled, the more he bends over. So what exactly are our prospects and alternatives? If we are to be spared an awful decade, both economically and politically, Obama needs to grow a backbone and the progressive community needs to stop crying in our beer and get out and organize.

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