How sad is this fact: When it comes to getting his legislation through Congress, George Bush sure did a better job than President Obama has thus far. That may piss you off, but it's true. And it should piss you off to do something about it.

George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Karl Rove understood that a slim, hairline 51 vote passing of their agenda by Congress was a VICTORY. It is stunning to me that Obama, a basketball enthusiast -- and a damned good player himself -- does not 'get it' that even if you win the game by one single point, you are the winner. You get the trophy. A win is a win.

Apparently, Barack Obama and his advisers in the White House have fallen for the fool's gold of "bi-partisanship", and the GOP and their facilitators within our Democratic Party keep dangling "compromise" before Obama as something to trumpet: a hollow, watered-down health-care "co-op" that keeps the insurance companies and big pharma in control for yet another generation. That's victory? Why even have the battle at all?

Karl Rove must be chuckling at how a sitting President whose Party enjoys a historic, filibuster-proof Senate and staggering control of the House of Representatives can not get his own preferred health-care program passed without it becoming a Republican plan.

George W. Bush even rammed his Patriot Act and illegal invasion of Iraq through a Democratic controlled Congress as he made Tom Daschle and Dick Gephardt roll over and obey him. And when he had control of the House and Senate, Bush made the U.S. Congress his own personal rubber stamp. And he did it without Obama's unprecedented advantage of having such huge majorities in the legislative branch. It drove me crazy how Bush would whip Congress around and get his way...every single time. But, now in hindsight, I gotta give him credit. As "dumb" as he was, he got what he wanted done and Congress delivered it to him on a silver plate smiling.

Bush made himself a rubber stamp. Obama's turned what should be a rubber stamp into a leaky rubber.

Come on Barack. You are the President. 51 is a victory. You take the victory and move on to the next item on your agenda. Muscle it. Move it. Step on it. For Chriiisssakes! Do it!