Wimpy wussy insecure Progressives only enable Republican Tea Party to plunder while faux Dems drown out the public's voices.
Only way to achieve any progress on a people's agenda -- is to instill real fear of people power in the Corporatist Centrist Conservative Moderate Democrats. This will only happen if we boycott the campaigns of the aforementioned DINOs and focus our energy on electing true Progressives not only at the lower cadres of Govt. but all the way to the top from local office holders to the President. Alternate candidates must be sought, drafted and fully supported.
Wimpy wussy insecure Progressives only enable Republican Tea Party to plunder while faux Dem protests drown Vox Populi.
The wicked Tea Party Republican corporatist leader and their gullible followers are bent upon stunting the evolution of our great country and muffle the populist Progressive voices for protecting the American people from the corrupt Washington corpopolitical forces.
These miscreants insinuate that the founding fathers envisioned a [static] America where the only valid revolution was the one behind them, i.e. against the British, but any necessary future ones were not the way to go. Imagine our illustrious forbears invalidating a revolution such as the one needed today to free the nation from the clutches of entrenched power holders, viz organized money bosses and corrupt politicians, who are only too happy to enslave the vast majority of American Citizens in furtherance of their own selfish interests.
The bold progressive concepts incorporated in our constitution some 200+ years ago, e.g. prohibition on Govt policy being influenced by or favoring any religion or no religion (accommodated atheists at that time). The founding fathers and other visionaries like TR, FDR, Ike, JFK, LBJ et al , would not be turning in their graves but smiling from the heavens -- seeing the further social progress that we have made in becoming a country of equality beyond freedom of religion -- equality for all races, religions, genders and sexual orientations.
Corporate Oligarchs and big time Plutocrats - have supported Corporatist Democrats and installed a bunch of DINO Corporatists in the Obama Administration. Obama has been cowed down by the hateful insults heaped upon him by USCC, Wall Street, Mega Corporations and Plutocrats (Ãber Wealthy).
It is ironic that Obama brings him in to showcase his move to the so called moderate center to attract the vast middle, believed by Obama staff as dumb and gullible. Perhaps . Perhaps this move is to suck up to the Plutocrats and Corporate Oligarchs to keep their big donations coming, essential for funding his upcoming billion dollar [yuck!] campaign.
Progressives have been extremely disappointed by total rejection by the Obama Administration of every single initiative for which the Progressives campaigned hard for in the last two years and which were planks of Obama platform in 2008. Not stopping with just ignoring them, Obama made sure to put these pesky fleas on his Corporatist behind in their place, declaring them to be "sanctimonious purists", who derided moderation and did not understand the meaning of "half a loaf is better than no loaf" [I wrote the President many times asking him "Mr. President pray tell who had eaten the other half of the loaf taken away from the American public]. The path had been paved by his spokesman Gibbs by calling serious progressives "Professional Left" sort of similar to "Professional Students". These lefties are so unreasonable that they would not have been happy should Dennis Kucinich have become the President - cleverly demonizing the Progressives and neutralizing Kucinich as somebody near the lunatic fringe of the Democratic Party. Two birds with one stone.
Apparently in all of the various cases of corrupting of new legislation, viz ACPPA, FINRA and the Tax Bill of Dec 2010, there is a common thread which has become clearer in light of President Obama's recent statement during the Matt Bai (NYT) interview of Nov 30, 2010, that he was himself essentially a Blue Dog, to the delight of his Moderate/Conservative followers in the Party and greeted with squeals from the true Blue Dogs. It appears like the GOPsters beat their chests and gin up their Tea Bagging Base to dilute and delay the legislation with nary a counter peep from the Bully Pulpit and their path smoothed by their corporatist buddies on the other side of the aisle. At the end when the clock is running out, Progressives on the Hill are totally cowed down by the threat that they would be exposed as depriving the American people the fruits of the labor of the Corporatists at the two ends of Pennsylvania Ave. Poor blokes fold, permitting the happy conclusion of yet another Kabuki dance performance.
In a recent TV panel, Ariana Huffington answered a question stating that the needed change would not be as a smooth as the painless toothless evolution of the Democratic Party of today. However she definitely pulled her punches in not exposing the "termite eaten" state of the Democratic Party, or suggesting how she saw the change coming. She did give it a catch name "Hope 2.0", perhaps the Phoenix rising out of the ashes of Obama's "Hopey Changey" promises.
It is hard not to notice the strong belief of the President and his Corporatists Staff "These f*&king Progressive retards have no place to go and after they are done shouting and moaning, they will come around to vote for Obama and his Blue Dog Band." To continue to follow along the same old pattern as predicated by the Corporatist Democratic Forces in Washington, and expecting different results is the very definition of insanity, something that my well wishing friends have accused me of as I continue to try and hope that Obama 2008 will re-emerge and that the Democratic Party will find its very reason for existence in the words of another truth teller Rachel Maddow. Of course they have done it to kick my butt to wake me out of my slumber.
I did participate as a loyal soldier in the campaigns led by PCCC (boldprogressives.org), MoveOn.org and DFA (democracyforamaerica.org) to oust Blue Dog Dems and replace them by Real Progressives. I am proud to have worked for several of them and in successful defeat in the general election of Blanche Lincoln, a Corporatist Blue Dog who undermined the Health Insurance Reform every step of the way. Even though a GOPster won out in the general, the Halter campaign challenged the other Dems in the same corner as Blanche Lincoln -- something much more important if we want Real Change and Arianaâs Hope 2.0.
Come on folks! Don't you think we need to bolster Congressman Anthony Weaver , who while resisting the pressure in the final stages of HCR legislation he felt as if a gun was being held to his head or loudly back up Senator Dick Durbin in attacking the rot in a Senate that he described as being "owned by the Corporations".
However, this will not happen by walking in the trance of business as usual and giving in to our insecurity of "If Obama does not win, the Tea Party Republican bogeyman will take over and further harm the country". It is this fear on part of American voters that has been responsible for the perpetuation of the current sorry state of affairs.
The Progressives have given consistent and strident voice to a truly populist (anti corporatist) agenda, but come election season they have caved into the external pressure and/or internal insecurity and ended up campaigning for the "lesser of two evils". True Progressives must not follow this self fulfilling Rahmobama prophesy that "Progressives have no place to go and they will come around at the end after getting their release from bitching and moaning".
Only way to achieve any progress on a people's agenda -- is to instill real fear of people power in the Corporatist Centrist Conservative Moderate Democrats. This will only happen if we boycott the campaigns of the aforementioned DINOs and focus our energy on electing true Progressives not only at the lower cadres of Govt but all the way to the top, from lowest level elected official right up to the President. Alternate candidates must be sought, drafted and fully supported.