It’s tough being a Progressive these days. Hell, it’s tough being an American these days, but I digress. As Progressives, there is a lot we agree upon – We want fair/progressive taxation. We want multinational corporations to bring jobs back to the US. We want universal healthcare. We want a reliable social safety net. We want equal rights for all. We want clean water and safe food. We want an end to the wars. We want the Bush regime to be tried for their crimes. We want banksters and other corporate masters to be held accountable for their sins…perhaps more importantly, we want their money out of our democracy.
Even typing that list depresses me. As a country, we are so far from our progressive utopia, it’s amazing we aren’t all moving to Sweden.
Just to refresh a memory or two, the years between 2000 and 2009 were pretty damn awful. The Presidency was stolen from us…arguably twice. We were attacked. We retaliated against the wrong country. We started another war. We tortured. The word ‘American’ started being seen as a badge of shame, so much so that Americans began claiming they were Canadian. The earth got hotter. Natural disasters were managed by a horse lawyer. Corporatists took over the Supreme Court. Corporate money took over the country in a way never seen before. Jobs left the country in record numbers. The banksters played games with our mortgages, resulting in a whole new breed of homeless people. Wages went down. Benefits went down. The gap between rich and poor put the Grand Canyon to shame. Social Security held on by a thread. Medicare was manipulated to be an extremely costly gift to the insurance companies. Creative accounting made sure that the next administration would have to pick up the tab. This whole debacle was sold to us under the guise that it was God’s will. In short, our country made the final leap to plutocracy mixed with a generous helping of theocracy.
In 2007, the economic facade assembled by the Bush team began to crumble. The artificially inflated housing bubble burst, in a dramatic way. The stock market crashed. Oil prices escalated. The Bush regime was at the end of their term. They saved their bankster friends before leaving, but their parting gift to the American people was a huge collective middle finger. They came into office with two goals, empire building and setting the stage for total privatization by convincing the American people that government was dysfunctional. In those two ways, their regime was a complete success.
By the time election season came along, even die hard Republicans were ashamed of their party. The American people were ready for change. We wanted to hit the country’s ‘reset’ button. Along came a breath of fresh air. Senator Barack Obama was new to most of the country. He was African American (that’s different, right?) He was extremely intelligent. He was a Constitutional attorney and former Editor of the Harvard Law Review. He was handsome. He was young. Unlike Bush, he knew how to form complete thoughts and articulate them. He was charismatic. He was inspiring. He spoke of “change.” He had all the qualifications of a ‘reset button.’
Progressives fell in love. We knocked on doors. We helped get out the vote. We donated money we didn’t have. We attended rallies. We were involved in a way not seen since the 60s. It felt great. It felt empowering. It worked. We helped elect a President.
In the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009, the economy was on the verge of a depression, but the country was bathed in an aura of optimism. Hope and change were on the horizon.
The aura began to darken early. The mantra of change became suspect when ex-Clintonites began filling the Cabinet. Even before the inauguration, progressives started jumping ship. Since then, there have been a lot of disappointments. The wars have continued. The Bush tax cuts were extended. The public option was taken off the table during the health care debate. More Progressives jumped and as a result, we lost the House to a new batch of Tea Party Republicans.
Since 2010, the internet and the media have been filled with threats to sit out 2012, threats to primary the President or even to turn to a third party. Progressives are angry…and rightfully so. The road to Progressive values should not be this bumpy and painful. We voted for ‘change’, where the hell is it?
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
President Obama made a lot of campaign promises and he’s kept an unprecedented number of them. He has accomplished a pretty amazing amount for a first term President. Unfortunately, his obstacles are higher than even our expectations.
Our electoral system is screwed up. In 2008, it cost more than half a billion dollars to win the Presidency. Since the Citizen’s United decision, giving corporations the unlimited ability to donate to elections, that number will undoubtedly go up exponentially in 2012. As long as a candidate has to bring in that kind of money, corporate ties will be a given. I’m all for a third party, but without a change to our electoral system, such as runoff voting, third parties are doomed to be spoilers.
Seemingly unbeknownst to many, there are three coequal branches of government. Congress owns the checkbook. All legislation must go through them before heading to the President. He’s had a pretty hostile Congress since the beginning. They have made no secret that their only goal is to destroy this Presidency. The filibuster, which was once used only occasionally, has been used to block almost all Democratic legislation and many of the President’s nominees. In other words, they are not letting him staff the agencies that would improve the way government would do business. Despite that, Nancy Pelosi’s House was able to push through many Progressive forms of legislation which were signed into law.
Then 2010 happened. Disillusioned Democrats decided to sit it out and the Tea Party moved in. The House was taken over. Now, we have a Republican House and a non-filibuster proof Senate. It’s amazing anything has gotten done.
Oh, did I forget to mention the Supreme Court. Five of the nine members are pure plutocrats. A few more years of their judicial “restraint” and we might as well throw up our hands and give up on our democratic experiment.
The debt ceiling debate was politics at its ugliest. Republicans were willing to bankrupt the country to advance their own political goals. In the past, the debt ceiling has been raised with a single line of legislation. It was never tied to the budget in the past, yet Republicans insisted it be tied to draconian cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and Unemployment with zero increases in revenue. The President insisted on an unspecified compromise. In the end, we got a compromise. We got the increase to the debt ceiling with cuts, or perhaps revenues to be determined later. If no decision is made, cuts will come from the military and other spending. Social Security is off the table and Medicare can only be touched from the provider side. Overall, it’s not a great deal, but it’s not the end of the world. Things even look more optimistic for his jobs bill, at least until it hits Congress.
Progressives are, to put it lightly, pissed. Bill Maher, who has been a harsh critic of Obama’s since the beginning, chides his audience when they don’t respond favorably to his rant against the President. “He fucked up,” he said. “He’s your President, not your boyfriend.” Recently, he even said he might not vote for Obama. Bloggers Jane Hamsher and Glenn Greenwald, have made careers out of a single meme of bitching about the sitting President, from the alleged left.
Progressives, if he’s not your boyfriend:
Why do you expect him to change your entire world? We hated the amount of power that George Bush took for the Presidency. Why do we want it out of Obama? A unitary executive is dangerous to the country. We only need to look back two years to prove that fact.
Why are you so emotionally involved? He’s a politician. He’s not a miracle maker. It’s not personal. He has to make deals to get anything done. That’s how Washington works. You are one of 300 million citizens. He is President of all the people, not just the left.
Why do you expect him to beat up the other guys? We want a more civil Washington, except when we’re in charge, I guess.
Why do you play hard to get? This one always gets me. There are a lot of Progressives who believe that the best way to get Obama to come around to our way of thinking is to withhold our support. Are you kidding me? Are we in middle school? Playing hard to get might work in adolescent love but it never works in politics. When you started threatening him and proclaiming your vote off limits during the beginning of his Presidency, he did what any mature person would do, he did his job the best way he thought he could. Adults don’t get their way by holding their breath, throwing a temper tantrum and withholding support. That’s how they get ignored.
If you want to affect real change in Washington, you can…we can stay active. Call and write the President. Call and write your Representatives. Get out the vote. Help organize a movement to change campaign finance. Only when we take private money out of campaigns, will we see a truly Progressive President.
The number one promise that Candidate Obama made to us was that we would be the change we were seeking. We are the ones that own the reset button. We have broken our own campaign promise.
I’m sure I’ll be called an “Obama Apologist” or an “Obamabot,” but in my opinion, I am being a realist. I know the obstacles in Washington. I know the alternatives (President Perry/Bachmann/Romney/Paul/whoever). I know what the Supreme Court will look like under another Republican Presidency. I know that if the Republicans win, there will be no more Social Security, no more Medicare and frankly, no more care. I know that nearly every government service will be privatized. I know that women’s rights/gay rights/immigrant rights/civil rights will be stripped. I know that the wealthy will declare victory in the war on the poor.
In the worst case scenario, another Obama administration will lessen our losses. In the best case scenario, Progressives will join with the President to accomplish real change.
OBAMA2012
You’re kidding, right?Nice try. I want you list out ALL the ways he hasn’t done ANYTHING at all for liberals and the middle class.You were so determined to do that, and sure of yourself.Let’s see what you got!I’ll wait……….PS. Happy DADT Repeal Day!!!
Too bad you don’t have the brains to understand the dynamics between a Democratic White House and a ROGUE republican house of representatives.
You sound ignorant!
I’ve heard this same story regurgitated by Obama-supporting “democrats” over and over and, like the GOP/Fox penchant for repeating lies longer and louder, it’s aging like a bad wheel of cheese…smelling worse and growing harder to swallow. The president made his bed with the progressive left, s term that today would make Eugene McCarthy cry, when he sought to appease the elusive independents and came too late to the realization that they, as a group, don’t exist. Paying a thoughtful, if fruitless nod to the progressive stalwarts of the democratic party, expecting to be showered with rose petals for having capitulated to the right at every turn is unrealistic in the extreme. It is too much to expect adulation when we see that the elephant in the room is wearing nothing but a donkey hat.
That public option sure would have worked wonders… too bad the pragmatists decided RomneyHeritageFoundationCare would be a perfectly good substitute.
Funny. She just said she learned something from reading this piece, and you now want her to follow YOUR train of thought! I’d say, she IS thinking for herself. You just don’t like the outcome.
The alternative.
http://extremeliberal.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/an-america-that-cares-about-all-people/
Bernie is NOT running. Get over it
Gee, you must be one that thought that the President could wave his special magic wand and made all the shit that past Presidents have done, magically disappear! POOF! All better.This President is the only one that HAS been doing his job! Not only did he have to fix the garbage dump that was left to him from Bush, that was far worse than he was TOLD it was, but he also had to deal with wars,a ton of natural disasters,healthcare reform,pirates,foreign policy issues, unemployment, filibusters,party of NO,the other party of NO (Dems)debt ceiling faux crisis,DADT,housing crisis,auto industry, the remnants of Wall St…the list is mind boggling!Literally, mind boggling!Those are just the issues that “popped up” in my head…He didn’t break every promise he made to liberals! WTH are you talking about? See, it sure sounds like you thought that he was elected to be ” your personal President!” Guess what? He is the President of the entire country! He is not a dictator and he certainly can’t impose his will on the nation or the govt the way you seem to think he should have done.The Executive Branch is ONE BRANCH OF GOVT! He’s faced an unprecedented number of filibusters and can’t even get his qualified appointees appointed to govt positions. If you like the idea of “my way or the highway” vote for a Republican.Please, in all your infinite wisdom..explain to all of us here, the promises that this President HAS BROKEN…every one,to the liberals and middle class.Please.If you think that this man is further to the right than Bush…I’d advise that you take advantage of the new healthcare system that is coming into place…only to be strengthened in the coming years, as long as people like you don’t pitch a sh*&fit when you don’t get everything you want. Because if you want to take your toys and go home, you’re free to do that, just don’t complain when EVEN MORE doesn’t go your way if Republicans REALLY grab you by the cajones. They care nothing for you. Nothing. Unless, of course, you are extremely wealthy or a corporation they can get tons of money from, otherwise…you are a meaningless drain on society and deserve whatever you get.(their thoughts, not mine)In case you think that I am mindlessly going along with whatever this President says,or I haven’t been disappointed, you would be wrong.I have had my share of things I wish he would have/could have done.I do know that this man has worked harder than any President in my lifetime to do the right thing by the middle class, the poor, the disenfranchised than anyone I have ever seen. So I would truly be interested in hearing from you precisely, EVERY SINGLE PROMISE THAT WAS BROKEN.And I want to know one more thing…are you upset, at all, that ALEC is feeding their RW agenda to RW legislators/Govs in all 50 states? Does it bother you at all that because of the Citizens United ruling by the corrupt Roberts Ct.overturning YEARS of precedent,that corporations are deemed to be PEOPLE now..and can get campaign donations from anywhere in the world, from any one that wants to push their agenda through? Does it bother you at all that our democracy is much weaker for that?Does it bother you that nearly ALL the Republicans (state/local/national) have signed a pledge to a private citizen, never to raise taxes for any reason(except on the middle class…that one’s ok) that supersedes the only pledge an elected official SHOULD take, and that is to uphold the US Constitution? Does it bother you, at all,that woman’s right to choose is being taken away, piece by piece, as if doing that will keep a woman from doing what she feels she has to do…the rich woman though, will be just fine. They’ll fly off and pretend that they are going to some grand spa somewhere.Does it bother you that religion is being inserted into govt as never before…a litmus test for all Republicans to pass, as if they had the lock on the “right religion” in a country that prides itself on the tolerance of others.Does it bother you that climate change isn’t even seen as real?The earth is melting,being poisoned…but hey, it’s the natural cycle of things! Those scientists don’t know what the hell they’re talking about.As long as we’re talking about science…not at all important.Please disregard that hogwash. I came from a rib. That’s all you need to know.
Immigrants?Anyone that’s not pure white as the driven snow, better have a birth certificate,passport,piss in a jar or whatever other bs they can come up with…because they know the country is changing, and whites will soon be the MINORITY…can’t have that now, can we? Got to keep that voting public scared, misinformed, uninformed so they will keep getting votes or become irrelevant.
As long as we’re still going…when you get old…that Medicare you thought you had. Gone. SS? Privatised. Damn…good thing it wasn’t privatized like Bush wanted in 2005….tens of millions of Americans would be even MORE up the creek…probably would have lost everything.I could go on and on…
So, your turn.Please share how daddy has disappointed you, and smacked the libs and middle class.Because from where I sit, he’s the only one that HAS been doing the work on our behalf.
desetflower, damn straight! Sick & tired of these whining fools. I don’t think THEY even know what they want! Carry on – I got your back and the President’s as well. “4 More 4 44″
Damn straight!!!!
I’d be interested in hearing from you exactly what “work” Obama has been doing over the past three years, besides throwing the Progressive Democrats, the middle class and the poor under the bus.
Here are some promises he broke:
Allow workers to claim more in unpaid wages and benefits in bankruptcy court
Allow imported prescription drugs
Appoint federal-level coordinator to oversee all federal autism efforts
Direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a comprehensive study of federal cancer initiatives
Change federal rules so small businesses owned by people with disabilities can get preferential treatment for federal contracts.
Form international group to help Iraq refugees
Work with Russia to move nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert
Close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center
Secure ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)
Reinstate special envoy for the Americas
Double the Peace Corps
Centralize ethics and lobbying information for voters
Allow five days of public comment before signing bills
Tougher rules against revolving door for lobbyists and former officials
Double funding for afterschool programs
Urge states to treat same-sex couples with full equality in their family and adoption laws
Allow bankruptcy judges to modify terms of a home mortgage
Increase the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour
Restore Superfund program so that polluters pay for clean-ups
Re-establish the National Aeronautics and Space Council
Support human mission to moon by 2020
Pay for the national service plan without increasing the deficit
Limit term of director of national intelligence
Give annual “State of the World” address
Reduce earmarks to 1994 levels
Enact windfall profits tax for oil companies
Create cap and trade system with interim goals to reduce global warming
Use revenue from cap and trade to support clean energy and environmental restoration
Require plug-in fleet at the White House
Provide an annual report on “state of our energy future”
But this isn’t surprising, like Perry, Romney etc, Obama works for the people that are screwing us. It’s his job to manage the empire with a Democratic face. The only way we can change things is to transcend the Democrat vs. Republican mindset because it’s starving us to death.
Excuses, excuses, excuses. I voted for him once, I’ll probably vote for him again like last time, holding my nose and wishing to Cthulhu and the formless masses of insanity in the universe that the next schmuck liar we get at least has the ability of Bill Clinton. He at least made us feel better about being sold out.
I’m not whining, and I’m not withholding my vote to hurt Obama’s feelings or make him sad.
I’m tired of compromising my morals and values for the lesser of two evils, just to get screwed over in the end anyway. Anyone who believes the democrats are not just as plutocratic and beholden to corporate influence is an idiot. Even if individual democrats have good intentions, their donor overlords will not let them enact any real progressive change. As long as democrats take corporate donations they will have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.
If progressives actually voted with their consciences instead of due to Bush-style fear mongering of how much worse things would be under the republicans, we might actually have politicians with progressive values elected. At the very least the democratic party would have to take a long look at itself and decide if it thinks it can continue to be viable without actually backing up it’s “progressive” lip service.
I honestly don’t think 4 more years of Obama would look all that different from 4 years of Perry. The damage is already done. The economy is ruined and the supreme court bought off– corporate and wealthy interests have won. Americans will still be distracted by their reality tv, corn syrup, and consumerism until we all hit rock bottom. At the end of the day, the real sickness is in the American people themselves. Our politics are just the symptom.
You are withholding your vote to hurt us all. We are not at the bottom yet. Things could get a lot worse, and they are guaranteed to under another Republican administration. Obama is NOT for the privatization of everything. They are. That’s all you should need to know.
I would argue that those who abandon their progressive values to support the democrats, and by extension the two party system, are the ones who are hurting us all. I’m not arguing that we should completely withhold our votes, just that we should vote with conscience for the party that is aligned with our beliefs as opposed to whoever we think has a shot of winning.
You yourself said in your post, “Only when we take private money out of campaigns, will we see a truly Progressive President.” So you expect that once elected, the democrats will somehow work against their own rational self interest to reform campaign finance because they appreciate your votes? The same votes they can apparently get right now in spite of not doing anything remotely progressive since GWB took office. How’s that working out for you?
Sadly, a vote for the democrats is a vote wasted. Barack “Capitulation” Obama is not going to save us. Even if he wanted to, his party is beholden to the same interests as the republicans. Just because they *say* they believe in progressive ideals does not make it the truth. As my grandma used to say, “The proof is in the pudding”.
I never claimed that Obama will get money out of politics. He simply doesn’t have that power. However, the grass roots does. Focusing all of your political ambition on the Executive Branch is naive. The system was never set up with that way. If we get together and start a large enough movement, we can get the states to call for a Constitutional Convention. It’s only with a Constitutional Amendment that we can get money out of politics. The Supreme Court has seen to that.
I guess I just don’t understand how supporting the same system, people, and policies that got us into the present reality that we are faced with (this refers to both democrats and republicans– the two party system)is going to fix anything. How will electing Obama one more time do anything to halt the forces that support the Rick Perrys of the world?
You’re right that the only thing that can really fix things is a large grass roots movement of individual citizens demanding change. And if what you really want and believe in is grass roots change then you should support people organizing themselves around shared progressive values. Instead you want us to dilute our message and waste our civic energy (not to mention our votes) by devoting ourselves to a party that is systemically opposed to our ideals.
Again, you couldn’t be more wrong. A Perry (or Romney) administration would do a lot of very serious damage to our democracy…maybe even enact laws that would make it all but impossible for us to form grass roots movements. Getting a Constitutional Amendment passed takes several years. In the meantime, we have to vote for the best we have…the best that will realistically win office.
A republican administration would actively do a lot of serious damage, whereas a democratic one would just let it happen (as they’ve done for the last 11 years). Six of one, half a dozen of another.
You’re apocalyptic scenario (if true) would not be avoided by another Obama administration, and reeks of the same scare tactics used by the right when predicting things like Sharia law taking over our justice system.
It’s shortsighted, at best, to constantly vote for whoever you think will win an individual election regardless of whether they share your political beliefs. Our energies would be better spent cultivating a cohesive progressive community that elects officials who share our views.
Absolutely, whatever the media and the Naderites say, the fact is that whoever the Republican is in 2012 who beats Obama, that Republican will be 10 times worse than Bush at minimum.
That is why I want Obama to win, that is why I get angry when I see Obama taking a dive and scoring double by planning ahead of time how to blame liberals for losing.
You share none of these beliefs? http://whatthefuckhasobamadonesofar.com/
Those aren’t beliefs they are democratic talking points. If you’ve got all night we can go through them one by one…
Wendy says, “My DINO president, right or far righter!”
Conservatives know the value of loyalty and patience. They’ve been successful at slowly moving the country to the right for the last 30 years. One only needs to look at their number one emotional issue -Abortion. Did they abandon Reagan, Bush, or W when theses presidents were not able to deliver on a complete ban, or even significant restriction? No -because they know that by being loyal in the end they will get everything they want. (And if they win the White House in 2012 they will be able to make the final changes to the Supreme Court to ban abortions for the foreseeable future) What do Liberals know of the wisdom of loyalty? -not so much. We don’t think Gore is pure enough for us so we vote for Nadar and as a result we get Bush and hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq end up dead because of it. So now we liberals have blood on our hands. We had the ability to prevent it, but we didn’t. Shame on us for being such poor tacticians.
It doesnt have anything to do with Liberals supposedly not voting. Obama has taken a dive and its non-Liberals who are giving up their support for him. Liberals are the most reliable voters of all time, Liberals did absolutely vote in 2010, it was Centrists who voted against Obama in 2010, Obamas numbers are way too low to blame it on just the liberals. Liberals we got to stop repeating these lies, Centrists are gearing up to blame us for Obama losing in 2012. They blamed us for 2010, and our own liberals repeat that lie, but it wasnt liberals who lost it in 2010 it was non-Liberals.
Why is it the liberals faults for not voting for DINOs who threw the liberals under the bus? Why do they want a battered wife to stay with an abusive husband? Why is the victim being blamed?
Dude, I am telling you, it doesnt matter if Liberals vote for Obama in 2012, after Obama loses, Centrist Democrats are going to blame Liberals anyway, and they are licking their chops to do it.
It’s not about centrists v liberals. It’s about the pragmatists v the dreamers and ideologues. You can be both liberal and pragmatic.
Liberals were pragmatic in 2010, we voted FOR the Democrats, it was Independents and 1st time voters who withdrew their support in 2010. There isnt any evidence that Liberals stayed home in 2010. It was Independents. Liberals voted for Obama in 2010.
Liberals voted for Obama in 2010. Liberals voted for Obama in 2010. Liberals voted for Obama in 2010.
We just didnt get any credit for it. Liberals, stop repeating these lies. We ARE going to vote in 2012, it just wont be enough. And, Centrist Democrats who are not pragmatists whatsoever, are willing to let it happen because they will get to make their argument against Liberals, accuse us of staying home, even though we are going to vote, and we Liberals are actually going to repeat those talking points and argue whether we should vote for Obama instead of taking on these lies head on and telling the truth which is we are going to vote for Obama and it wont be enough.
Look at the Democrats up here, pretending they don not understand my simple concept, deliberately mis-interperting what I am saying, because you know I am right.
You don’t even understand your “ignorant” concept.
Wrong Wendy! It’s about our elected representatives committing mutiny against the people who voted for them, this especially includes DINO Obama.
Please stop blaming the voters for the sins of our elected representatives!
Obama is not a Democrat. A message was sent to the DINOs in last year’s election to stop being DINOs when over half of them were voted out of office. Apparently by their continued enabling of the far right, the DINOs did not take the hint, and apparently, are willing to get voted out of office again. Must be those cushy lobbyist jobs waiting for them that causes them to be unconcerned about their future job prospects.
If Obama and the DINOs don’t become Progressive Democrats in the next few months and start enacting legislation we can believe in, then they too will get voted out of office.
The only question is, will the Progressive Democrats get up the courage to challenge the DINOs in Democratic Primaries? Or will we have a repeat of last year’s elections.
Voting for the lesser of two evils was not an option last year for millions of liberal voters, and it won’t be an option next year either.
Get used to it!
Your constant use of the acronym “DINO” makes you sound silly. There is no single definition of a Democrat. Did you know that FDR was accused of being a corporatist during his administration?
Well, if you want to regress to juvenile ad hominems, your constant support for a DINO makes you sound like a squawking bird brained propaganda parrot.
And your reference to FDR is irrelevant. It has been proven many times over that DINO Obama is no FDR Progressive Democrat.
You know, I used “Progressive Democrat” many times in my comments too. Funny how you don’t call me silly for over using that descriptive term!
Thank you Wendy for some critical thinking and hanging in there to rebut the other posters.
You’re thanking her for making illogical comments? You have no idea what “critical thinking” means.
Thank you. I’m tired of whining people calling their whining “pressure”. If it’s pressure, you’d ALSO take some personal responsibility and organize and mobilize behind him. You are free to be critical, but you can do it without childish name calling. and if you want change, you have to make it happen as well. That means you vote every election, create petitions for change.
Good! Now pass it on! He can’t do this by himself, and WE are supposed to be the adults, not whiny children that throw temper tantrums when we don’t get everything we want.ENOUGH! Let’s back this President, 110%, give him the tools he needs to get the job done (Dem congress) and let’s DO THIS THING!There is no option to fail.
Nope! It’s not going to happen. Obama has had plenty of time to do his job, but all he did was break every promise he made to liberals and the middle class. He talks like a Progressive Democrat, but acts further to the right than Bush/dick.
Darn, guess his magic wand must have broken. None of the responsibility for any perceived failures couldn’t have come from Congress could it? Nah, that would be impossible.
Actually, over 50% of the DINOs in Congress who were up for reelection last year lost. How’s that for voter responsibility?
It will happen again next year too. “You can’t beat Republicans by being Republican Light.”
~Howard Dean, Progressive Democrat
Thrown under the bus by DINO Obama.
That’s why DINO Obama and the rest of the DINOs in Congress are unelectable.
as is standard operating procedure with this blog (quite frankly no more than graffiti with punctuation) i know this won’t be published. i just hope wendy sees it. seriously, wendy – do you read. do you have any source of news other than bill maher? so many mistakes in your post, outright lies, misinformation, and leftist propaganda the good thing is, you believe your own words, and that’s why (mercifully) you will lose the next election.
Wendy’s propaganda is not leftist, it is DINO rightist.
The DINOs will indeed lose the next election, again. The only question is whether or not the Progressive Democrats will grow a set and primary the DINOs. Otherwise, the DINOs will lose in the General Election.
We are at a tipping point in American politics. Either the next election will begin a new era in progressive government for the benefit of the people, or we will experience more of the same hope we cannot believe in for the benefit of the upper 1% Gilded Fascist Elite.
I find it amazing that people forget that president Obama is the face on only one facet of government. any idiot should be able to figure out that there are 535 men and women who need to agree with the president, or a supermajoity that agree to override the presidents veto to get things done; ignoring the 9 people wearing robes. to all you naysayers and liberal/progressive whiners out there who claim Obama never got a damn thing done look at yourselves and own up to the fact that you are the problem, not Obama. you put republicans into power, you allowed this to happen, either by actively voting for the tea party and republicans, by allowing fear tactics to work on both yourselves and your congressmen during the healthcare debate(which I feel led to the astroturfed tea party), or by pouting and refusing to vote at all. not voting does not punish the government, it punishes the citizenry. voting is not a privilege, it is a responsibility. I voted for Obama, and you know what I will vote for him again in 2012, because he is heads shoulders and beyond the best and would be better if not for republican obstruction.
Exactly. VERY well said. Honestly, the President could cure cancer, eliminate world poverty and hunger and someone would bitch. The GOTP would be a given, but when it’s someone from the “professional left” its downright disgusting.
IF we Progressives sit out the next election, we deserve the theocracy we are going to get.
If we Progressives nominate a Progressive Democrat in a Democratic Presidential Primary, then we will deserve the democracy we get!
Kudos to Bill Maher. It’s true that progressives are quickly disillusioned and should do a better job of sticking together. The debt ceiling debacle showed the Republican Party was more concerned with trying to make Obama lose his job than helping Americans regain theirs.
http://www.obamaftw.com/blog/
What do you expect after DINO Obama repeatedly threw the progressives under the bus. For that he expects our support? No wonder so many voters and most unions have told him NO!
I feel thoroughly spanked by this article. As a Progressive, I needed to read this. Thanks.
Yeah, stop thinking for yourself and fall in line with the propaganda talking points so you will continue to vote against your own best interests.
Kevin, we get it-you don’t like Obama. If you have a reasonable alternative please feel free to share it with us..leave the petulance and pettiness to the Republicans!