The Professional Left Is Handing Republicans Precisely What They Want

[JDPriestly]

81. So what does work?

Do you seriously disagree with what most of us criticize the President for doing?

Do you like chained CPI? Do you think we are better off without a public option? Do you want to keep paying for Guantanamo, keep violating the civil rights of the people jailed there for life with no opportunity to defend themselves or question why they are being held? Do you think that Manning should have kept his secrets and never exposed the wrongs that our government did?

Do you seriously think that seniors on Social Security should pay for Bush's two wars and his tax cuts for the rich so that the rich can pay for their yachts and elevators for their cars?

Do you think it is the fault of progressive Democrats that idiotic Republican governors don't choose to have Medicaid in their states and that their sheepie constituents vote for them anyway?

I think the article quoted in the OP was written by a person of little intelligence and no compassion. It makes utterly no sense to criticize progressives for criticizing Obama's right-wing stances. The stances themselves make no sense as you can quickly learn if you read posts, for example, about the chained CPI and its horrendous effects not just on seniors but on most people in our country.

Progressives like me got Obama re-elected. He has turned on us.

We progressives are the ones who worked the long hours, made the phone calls, registered the voters, talked about issues with the uninformed, the undecided. We comforted people and did all the work that Democrats do at the grassroots that get out the vote.

We progressives elected Obama. He owes his re-election to us. We are the party stalwarts. He has abandoned us.

We are the worker bees, and then he turns on us. That is why we are angry. We did not elect a Republican. We did not work to get a Republican re-elected.

The people resoundingly rejected Romney's right-wing views. And now we see Obama, who was elected thanks to the blisters on our feet and the hours we wasted on his campaign, turn against us.

Of course we are angry. Of course we will not forget. And I do not think he wants a Democratic House because if he did he would not have leaked the fact that he is proposing the chained CPI.

Obama has lost the 2014 election. Just the back-door announcement that he is supporting the chained CPI insures that we will not have a Democratic House in 2014. Might as well forget about that campaign. Les jeux sont faits. The die is cast. The game for the 2014 election has been played. It's gone. I had hoped we could win back the House. But I think Obama has thrown that hope away.