I think I know why he treats the ‘left’ with such derision and disgust.
I think I know why a Harvard educated lawyer appears to be such a shitty negotiator. Why he consistently, allow me my metaphor, starts the ball on our 99 yard line.
I think it's coming clear why.
I think I know why John Boehner got, as he put it yesterday, 98% of what he wanted. Why the son of a barkeep rolled the Harvard educated lawyer who lives in the White House with such ease.
I think it's becoming pretty clear why that is.
I think I know why Wall St. gangsters run his department of the Treasury.
We're in two wars started by an imbecile republican. I think I know why we're still in those two stupid wars.
I think I know why he has never, not once, made any attempt to explain why we're in Afghanistan in 2011.
I think I know why the Imbecile Republican’s horrific renditions and foreign prisons didn't end in January, 2009, nor in August, 2011.
I can't help recalling how he and his team gave up on health care reform, only to see it revived by actual Democrats in congress, who didn't actually see any good reason to give up.
I now think I know why he gave up so easily.
I think I know why he negotiated away the really important elements of health care reform with people who immediately announced that they wouldn't vote for it anyway. I think I now know why those elements weren't immediately reinserted into health care reform.
I think I know why a guy who appears to be such a terrible negotiator is still at the receiving end of a fire hose of Smart Money, as Matt Taibbi pointed out yesterday. Yes, it's becoming clear why.
I think I know why he always places the ball on our 99 yard line.
I think it is because it is his one yard line.
I think I know why he treats the ‘left’ with such derision and disgust.
I think it's because against all evidence we continued to believe he was on our side. Some of us still do.
Not me. Not any more.