If President Obama does turn out to be as ideologically rigid as many believe him to be, these necessary policies can be adopted by bipartisan, vetoproof, Congressional majorities after the next mid-terms.
If they would at least aggressively explain their policies to the public, even if Obama resists and pushes the economy off the cliff for now, they can gain working vetoproof majorities in the midterms to rescue the American Dream before it is too late.