Pat Dollard

I don’t think we are going to get a chance to change anything in an election.

PLEASE LISTEN TO THE LAST 15 MINUTES OF The Steve Malzberg Show-December 23,2009-Hour #1 !!!
Go to…
http://www.wor710.com/pages/3600488.php
Scroll down and play hour # 1 THE LAST 15 MINUTES!!!

FOLKS, WE ARE IN TROUBLE!
THEY ARE COMING FOR OUR GUNS!

Below (after the comments) is an excerpt from what one of the most leftist writers at the Huffington Post said about Obama today. The writer is not a lone voice. Progressives who elected Obama feel they have more in common with the The GOP Teapartiers. Watch for them to march in solidarity with us at the next Tea Party events!!

You can read the entire piece here but I’ve excerpted he best parts below: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/miles-mogulescu/the-democrats-authoritari_b_402146.html#comments

The comments are very interesting. Clearly there is a division within the democratic party much like within the GOP, but those who were responsible for Obama’s win KNOW they have been betrayed. And hell hath no fury like a scorned progressive democrat.

By their own admission they will vote for Palin in 2012—praying she’ll quit after 2 yrs –in the hope to teach their party a big lesson even if she stays on full term.

These comments sum up the feelings of most of those who voted for Obummer – ( this is what the left is now calling him!!)

I was under the misguided notion that the election was the cure for the nations problems. This I do know, my rage is without limit. The blatant way the Obama Administration has betrayed those of us who believed in him is simply unforgiveable. Blaming the Clinton’s is wasted energy, this falls entirely on Obama. No svegali has bewitched him, he is in the end the most powerful man in the world. The idea that he can not roll a Lieberman or a Nelson is hogwash. The current so-called Democrats have broken our collective hearts. The corporate cancer in the body politic appears to be without a cure.

He’s already lost a generation of young voters who feel like fools after working for Obama and buying into what they had previously regarded as an impossibly corrupt political system. Now they know it’s impossibly corrupt. It’s as if, instead of being assassinated, RFK had been elected President and then continued the war and governed domestically like a Republican.

Below is an excerpt from the piece I mentioned above and it speaks to how angry liberals are with this President and his lying administration.
The Progressives mantra has now become “meet the new boss, same as the old one”

Excerpt:

Obama campaigned, at least on the level of political imagery, as a progressive liberal. His campaign slogan was “Yes We Can”, taken directly from the ’60′s era slogan of Cesar Chavez and The United Farm Workers Union, “Si Se Puede”. He evoked the imagery of Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement. He talked about overthrowing the influence of special interests and lobbyists and transforming the way Washington does business. He promised transformative “Change” (although, as some critics pointed out at the time, he left the direction of “Change” so vague that voters of various stripes could read what they wanted into it). That’s why a majority of progressive Democrats supported Obama over Hillary Clinton in the primaries, particularly after the more populist John Edwards withdrew. They didn’t want to see a return to the centrism, corporatism, and triangulation of Clintonism.

But from the moment he was elected, Obama has governed not as a progressive liberal but as a corporatist liberal. Progressive liberals hoped Obama would be like FDR. Instead, he’s been like Bill Clinton on steroids.

Obama’s economic advisors, such as Larry Summers and Tim Geithner, were all drawn from the Wall Street wing of the Democratic Party. His foreign policy advisors were all liberal hawks like Hillary Clinton or even Bush administration veterans like Robert Gates. From day one, Obama continued Wall Street Republican Hank Paulson’s financial policies of throwing money at the banks while demanding next to nothing in return in terms of making credit available to average Americans and small businesses or creating new jobs.

When it came to health care “reform”, Obama’s strategy was to cut deals with for-profit health care corporations. He cut a deal with big Pharma to continue banning Medicare from negotiating for lower drug prices and to continue banning consumers from buying cheaper drugs from Canada. He cut a deal with the for-profit hospital industry that there would be no effective national public option that might pay them lower rates that the for-profit insurance oligopoly. While he gave mild rhetorical support to the public option, he did nothing to actually fight for it , and, as Russ Feingold has pointed out, Joe Lieberman was really doing Obama’s work in killing it.

As it increasingly appears that Obama is the President of Wall Street, and not the President of Main Street, he is losing not only the left but the center. It’s a myth that the path to winning the popular center in American politics is moving to the corporate center.

If the only political choice given to American voters is using their taxes to help big government subsidize wealthy corporations, or the Republican message of shrinking the size of government and cutting their taxes, many who voted for Obama will return to the fold of the seemingly brain-dead Republican Party.

Obama will likely face an even more conservative Congress after the 2010 election and even, like Jimmy Carter, could end up as a one-term President.

The hopes of millions of Obama campaign workers and voters that the Age of Obama would sweep in a new era of progressive change could be dashed. A generation of young voters could be turned off to politics instead of becoming permanent Democrats.

Let’s hope, that with the defeat of the public option at Obama’s hands, the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party wakes up and begins to realize that it has a fight on its hand against the corporatist Democrats, and that Obama might not be its natural ally.

it’s the winter of our discontent. The moment for Obama to “change direction and seize the radical moment at hand” is fast receding. Will he continue to move “prudently, carefully, reasonably towards disaster?” If not, I worry for the future not only of progressives and Democrats, but of the country. President Palin in 2012?