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Failure to pass good and meaningful healthcare reform will happen because no matter how much power they are given the Democrats are spineless and in the pocket of the same wealthy corporations that rule the Republican party.
The Democrats betrayed the unions and working class today by withdrawing card check. They will betray all of us on healthcare reform.
And since Obama is carrying forward the Bush administration's policies on war and fighting terrorism and protecting the banking industry from accountability we can then declare Obama's Presidency a failure.