Breathe lefties...we're on the same team!
I want to win and finish what we started. We need at least two more years of majorities in both houses while Obama is president to finish what we started. I too am a progressive, but I am also a realist. Forget Gibbs, forget Burton and open your F-ing eyes. They are on our side. Stop fighting your allies and help us maintain our majorities.
This is why, despite better policy ideas, more integrity and ethics we can't maintain a majority. We waste energy and resources fighting ourselves. Rush, Newt, Glenn and the entire FOX team loves this...oh do they enjoy it. We're idiots and we make their lives so much easier.
Eight years with Bush in the White House created such an economic mess that Obama has been saddled with a huge debt, heart-breaking unemployment and foreign-policy disasters around the globe. Despite these realities he's got sh*t done.
* Pulled the economy back from the brink
* Got health care insurance for millions of Americans
* Signed real Financial reform (even Krugman agrees)
* Huge energy efficient and transit projects with ARRA dollars
* Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
* Soon Don't Ask, Don't Tell will be gone
Keep fighting the good fight, keep pushing for better policy, but live in this world. Perfection rarely enters the policy making arena. Work to rid the Congress of the people that compromised these bills, but don't retreat. Don't give up. Imagine what Obama could accomplish if he inherited what Bush did in 2000. If we give up now we risk losing credibility with the nation.
I live in Portland, Oregon and we pride ourselves on our progressive values. I promise you, there isn't a better, more progressive place to live in the country. Even here, change is a process that takes time.
Progressives, it's time we operate in the real world and not some fantasy or before you know it we'll get eight years of Haley Barbour.
Now is not the time to sit out!!!