Joe Conason oversimplifies history

Contrary to his article about Obama picking up the mantle of the more idealistic side of the Slickster and running with it:
• Recalcitrant Democratic senators helped kill his healthcare plan;
• He never presented Kyoto to the Senate or even considered doing so;
• Does “other profoundly important reforms” include Clinton’s part in the financial deregulation push?
• Democratic policies under Clinton may have slowed the rate of income inequality increase, but didn’t actually reverse that, and certainly not in any structural way.

First, Conason knows better, and is really in the bag on this one.

Second, I’m afraid that the Bill Clinton of the bullet points is exactly whose mantle Obama will pick up.