I mean it is obvious to me based on the diaries and comments at DKos that Obama will be a massive FAIL according to progressives. Lets consider the following:
- Obama has failed to have a strict litmus test for cabinet appointments ruling out anybody who is not a progressive, served with WJC, related to WJC, Republican, Blue Dog Democrat, DLCer and/or any other progressive issue of the day we feel is important.
- Obama caved on prosecuting the Bushies for their illegal activities. The trials should have begun already. The fact that Obama has not been sworn in yet is not relevant.
- Obama has failed in properly communicating to Sen Harry Reid that under no uncertain circumstances should any offer to Sen Lieberman include his gavel for the HS & GA committee and Harry missed the subtle hint and let him keep the chair.
- Obama has failed to move to the left of his campaign rhetoric and his stump speeches as we have demanded. He insists on governing as he campaigned as a pragmatist/moderate.
- Obama has failed to prevent GWB from moving the country further to the right during the 2 weeks after we delivered the votes he needed for the historic victory.
- Obama has failed to villify non-progressives and Republicans which is not fair because Republicans always villify us progressives.
- I forgot to add that he did not yet change his position on gay marriage and propose a constitutional ammendment defining marriage as any 2 consenting adults over the age of 18 who are not related closer than 2nd cousin.
In general, it is obvious that Obama will fail progressives for the next 4 years. So what to do. We need to mount a progressive primary challenger. I mean we will need $100 million in the bank by 2010 just to be credible. How else can we make sure that Obama does not succeed in taking our country down a non-progressive path.
Governing is not so tough, you just follow your ideology with strict purism and nothing bad could happen. I mean just look at the Republicans, did they try to be moderates? No, of course not and look how that worked out, they were able to govern just fine with litmus tests and purity tests for conservative values.
They kept the economy going, ran the war well, managed our natural disasters on par with excelence and all without people who knew anything what they were doing.
So the time is now, progressives...please give up on Obama and just hope for a true progressive in 2012. We thought we could move him to the left but it is just not working...aghhh lets get to work...I say the top 100 progressive Kossacks form an exploratory committee right now.