Word comes today that Obama and team are ready to throw public option under the bus. Really, can we say we are surprised at this after all his sellouts already?
But this latest and greatest sellout - tossing public option aside - is the real test of the Netroots. If we can't rise up and exert our power to stop this bullshit, Netroots will prove itself as the joke so many already claim it to be.
We were always lukewarm on Obama, and now we see the good reason we were. He wasn't our first choice, but once the train gathered momentum and his promises piled up, we got on board.
What suckers we all were.
We should have known Obama had Netroots up his ass when he built his own Netroots and pretty much ignored daily Kos and the rest of the Netroots.
Now we see that he has more than just the Netroots up his ass; he's got all the voters that worked so hard to do his footwork and get him in the White House with a Democratic majority to advance a real Democratic agenda.
But now we see team Obama for what it is: just a continuation of many of the policies of the Bush debacle and just another pig sucking at the tit of Wall Street and the insurance lobby.
We better INUNDATE our congress people with OUR progressive demands or else. If we lose this one and allow Obama to wipe his ass with public option and all of us that put him in the White House today, the Netroots will be revealed as a joke.
I don't believe we're a joke. Let's let our voices be heard!