To the Lazy Lefties and Slothful Centrists: F*** all y’all.

[NYC Liberal]

23. Bullshit.

If you think there was "nothing to stop them" in 2009, you haven't a clue as to the reality of the situation. Where were you? There was incredible obstruction -- unprecedented, in fact. That "supermajority" included people like Joe Lieberman and Blue Dog conservadems.

The ACA is a starting point, but it is an incredible one that is helping millions of people. We'd have NOTHING if we'd stamped our feet and held our breath and refused to support anything but the bestest most perfect bill -- that also NEVER would have passed. Some here wanted us to do that and thankfully it didn't happen.

Extending the tax cuts was not done in a vacuum, and to leave out the other part of the equation is dishonest. It was done because the Repugs refused to allow the extension of unemployment benefits otherwise. Refusing to extend the tax cuts would have meant millions of people - including kids - going hungry and without heat in the middle of a brutal winter. So sure, we could have refused to compromise. And fucked over millions of poor folks struggling just to survive.

Not everyone is secretly a liberal who would support every progressive law if Obama et al "would just fight for it". Almost half the country voted for Mitt-fucking-Romney - the perfect poster boy of the "one percent" - last time.