We don't need a 3rd party. We need to primary Obama with a Democrat who will stand up and say Obama doesn't represent the party of FDR, he represents the blood suckers on Wall Street. Bernie Sanders agrees we should primary Obama hoping it would push Obama further to the left. It's not going to happen. Obama has a lock on plenty of money for a campaign that would (if 2008 is any lesson) trash the reputation of the challenger, have the DNC cheat for him and play the race card for good measure. Obama is on the right, has always been on the right and will stay on the right regardless of a primary.
The debt ceiling debate is just kabuki to make the rubes believe that the only choice, Flimflam Man has to save the county from defaulting on its debt is sacrifice Social Security and Medicare when in truth that is exactly what Obama was hired to do. If Obama were a Democrat, he would have stopped all the Republican crazy talk about the debt ceiling by simply saying he would invoke the 14th Amendment. Bill Clinton said he would invoke the constitutional option to raise the debt ceiling "without hesitation, and force the courts to stop me" in order to prevent a default. Now, there's a president with some balls. http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2011/07/19/bill-clinton-says-he-would-use-the-14th-amendment/ For the past few weeks, Obama has shown no interest in involving Democrats in "negotiating" with Boehner, Cantor or McConnell because he couldn't have gotten away with unilaterally offering up programs to help the poor and women. Obama has continually lied about the strength and solvency of the social safety net and now he has accomplished what George W. Bush and every Republican before him could only dream of doing, destroy FDR's New Deal.
