The Professional Left Is Handing Republicans Precisely What They Want

[KamaAina]

213. Why inflict this on us?

Are you mad at us for some reason?

First, if DU were a city, it would be large enough to have its own bus sytem, community college, mall, etc. So if one poster accuses 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, that means all 200,000 or so of us are members of "the professional left", whatever that is.

Second, I can't speak for dKos, FDL, or whatever, but DU has directed plenty of good old-fashioned American outrage at repuke governors across the land.

Third, despite what its Wiki entry says, the Center for American Progress is hardly a "progressive public policy research and advocacy organization". Take a gander at its executives and fellows:

http://www.americanprogress.org/about/staff/

Executive Committee

John Podesta, Chair

Carol Browner, Distinguished Senior Fellow

Distinguished Senior Fellows

Tom Daschle

Lawrence H. Summers

That says to me "middle-of-the road, Third Way corporate Dem", not "progressive".

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