I don't know whether to laugh or cry reading Daily Kos these days. Has any President in history ever had his anatomy analyzed to the extent that President Barack Obama has?
According to the wise and unelectable majority here at Daily Kos, the President is spineless, ball-less, and gutless.
And all this from a group of people who have run and hid less than two years into his first term.
Pot, meet kettle.
When President Obama pushed for the stimulus bill, Daily Kos was there to shriek that the stimulus was too small, even though they had no proposal for how to get the bill they wanted through the Senate.
When President Obama pushed for health care reform, Daily Kos led the march to "Kill the Bill" once the votes for the Public Option didn't materialize. The only plan offered to get enough votes for the Public Option were resurrect LBJ and "bend arms". When a compromise for a triggered public option was proposed (which last time I checked is better than no public option), "the left" shrieked that they did not elect President Snowe.
When President Obama was trying to plug the oil leak and get BP to pay for it, Daily Kos was up front blaming him personally for not having enough boom on hand to cover all the Gulf States the next day and accusing him of being in cahoots with BP.
When the President fulfilled his campaign promise to send more troops to Afghanistan, folks at Daily Kos swore up and down that he had campaigned on ending the war in Afghanistan and began comparing him to President George W. Bush.
When the President said that he wanted to end Don't Ask Don't Tell permanently by getting a bill passed in Congress,Daily Kos shrieked that he should end it immediately by Executive Order. Even though that is not a permanent solution and President Palin will rescind it in two short years once the left delivers her to the White House via hysterical third party temper tantrum.
When the Justice Department defends Don't Ask Don't Tell in the courts, instead of clamoring for the executive branch to follow the "rule of law" as we did during the Bush Administration, Daily Kos now demands that only laws that we agree with are enforceable and the Justice Department is supposed to just ignore the laws we don't agree with.
Daily Kos has been here to remind us that every person the President has appointed is a corporate sell out. The very mention of the name Rahm Emmanuel caused fits of foaming at the mouth and hysteria.
Daily Kos has been shrieking hysterically about President Obama since before Inaguration Day.And yet, there is not a single critic here who can explain how they are going to get their brilliant plans through the U.S. Congress. Because they can't. And that is President Obama's fault.
Everytime the President doesn't bend to YOUR will, you declare that he is weak. Everytime the President doesn't follow YOUR commands, he loses just a bit of his manhood according to the wise scribes here.
And in the process, Daily Kos has pretty much lost all credibility. It is not about policy, it is about ego. Daily Kos has NEVER stood behind President Obama. And then you feign surprise that the President is not beholden to you.
Why should he be? Why should any of us be? Other than crticize and complain, what has Daily Kos accomplished? How is the world a better place because of Daily Kos?
Someone please enlighten me.