Commenter Davis X. Machina nails today’s speech:
Too little, too late.
He needed to resign. Preferably after ending all three wars, and an abject apology, but a flat-out resignation would have been o.k., too.
Let Biden or Boehner do the job—they have no souls, they’re politicians.
Power corrupts, with great power corrupting greatly. Resignation is the only way to show that you’re unwilling to be complicit in your own corruption. Think of the message that would send to power—that you refuse to play along.
A real progressive Obama would have resigned as soon as he was inaugurated—that way his complicity would have been strictly limited. O.K., you need to make the point that America is moving forward, by electing a person of color, but that’s made the day you’re sworn in—then you immediately resign, and go into the opposition.
But not in opposition in Congress—they’re complicit too.
Opposition in the streets.
And then BJ could go back to swapping recipes, cat photos, and dog-behavior-modification tips.