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The Professional Left Is Handing Republicans Precisely What They Want

By: Rmuse
Apr. 9th, 2013



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It is interesting that the left is throwing a tantrum over the purely political theatre that is the chained CPI outrage du jour, and yet they are nearly silent over Republican governors and legislatures balking at Medicaid expansion that threatens healthcare for millions of Americans. In fact, there is already talk of “primarying” any Democrat who supports the chainedCPI proposal and it is déjà vu of 2010 all over again. Once again it is noteworthy that the Center for American Progress (CAP) recommends chainedCPI in their “The First Step – A Progressive Plan for Meaningful Deficit Reduction by 2015” in all its iterations and for the uninformed, CAP is no conservative belief tank and is not funded by the Koch brothers, Karl Rove, or involved with the American Legislative Exchange Council.

For the past four days left-leaning websites have accused the President of “wanting” to be the Democratic President who destroys the New Deal, or that he is deliberately punishing retired and elderly Americans to curry favor with Republicans. Seriously? This President who staked his entire first term on an extremely unpopular healthcare reform law that gives 37 million Americans access to affordable healthcare, and pushed through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act with no support whatsoever from Republicans wants to go down in history as the President that eviscerated Social Security?

Those on the left threatening to primary Democrats over a symbolic budget proposal fail to remember a couple of occurrences that happened within the last seven days. First, Senate Democrats stated categorically they will not support any budget compromise that includes cuts to Social Security, and Republicans in the House rejected the symbolic proposals without reading them because the President included tax increases on the wealthy and funding for infrastructure improvements. They also forget that anything this President proposes will meet a quick death in the extremist House of Representatives, and that President Obama is a shrewd negotiator that has outsmarted and outmaneuvered Republicans at every turn including winning re-election to a second term in spite of Citizens United corporate money fueling Republican extremism.

It is seriously time for the Left to take a step back, regroup, and remember what happened a little over three years ago when they whipped themselves into frenzy over issues which the President had no control. Yes, it is appropriate to express opposition to Social Security cuts, and scream at the prospect of the KeystoneXL pipeline’s construction, but revolt over a symbolic budget proposal that has no chance of passing either house of Congress? Maybe the Left should take a look in their own states and focus their outrage on the growing number of Republican legislatures and governors raping the life out of education, Medicaid, safety nets, and public employees and just imagine how much good they will do by primarying Democrats in 2014. However, that means giving an ounce of thought to the process by which they encode, store, and retrieve information, and recalling what happened the last time their outrage and overreaction over something the President had no control overruled their common sense and any modicum of self-preservation and regard for their fellow Americans. One understands why Republicans conveniently forget the damage their consistent policies produce, but it is beyond reason why the Left is willing to revisit the damage they caused this country when they sat out an important midterm election and worse, are making plans to do it again. Here is a news flash; Congress writes and enacts the nation’s budget, they alone have power to repeal DADT and DOMA, create a public option, fund relocating Guantanamo, and will be the branch that will not pass anything this President proposes. And for the record, they certainly will not be giving emoprogs unicorns, a medal for Bradley Manning, or anything else that helps the American people, so think long and hard about 2014 and if it is humanly possible, remember 2010.