Delusional liberals claim that Obama had absolutely no choice save to coddle and resuscitate the big banks, no alternative but to forever enshrine the insurance companies as the arbiters of the health of Americans, that he just couldn’t help it being the powerless little infant that he was when the big mean banks and insurers broke into the Oval Office and spanked him for being such a bad boy until he bawled and relented and gave them all they wanted and more.

But he appointed Larry Summers secretary of the treasury in the first days of his presidency, when he had every choice in the world. Obama had complete discretion, with Democrat majorities in Congress, a new administration and the largest crisis since 1929. He just didn’t want to do what was right.

“Liberals” chant to themselves the hogwash and fibbery above about Obama’s choicelessness to mask their deep disappointment and their extreme cognitive dissonance, all to have some explanation for having made such a bad choice themselves. It’s mental self-protection, believing that the president had and has no power at all (despite all the immense and overarching power they ascribed to George W. Bush).

The simple fact is that Obama could have done things much differently. He did not because he simply didn’t want to. This was clear from the very beginning of his presidency.

We could have had a New New Deal. That’s a simple fact. But we got the Same Old Deal, Even Harder.

And yes, dumbass liberals, that was a deliberate choice.