I spent the day listening to talk radio today as I did my mundane work. Here’s what I learned:
Democrats are sure that Obama is not behind the rightward drift of the Administration, and are urging each other to get in touch with him to bring him back in the fold. The think it’s Rahm Emmanuel – they think Obama ought to fire him.
They’re pretty sure that he is playing chess, while others are playing checkers. They are actually playing Chutes and Ladders. He could be playing anything, and they would not figure it out.
They are worried that the Democrats will lose a bunch of seats in the 2010 midterms if they don’t come around. They haven’t yet realized that having the presidency, the 60 senate searts and the House has gotten them exactly zilch, so that losing Democratic seats will also mean … zilch.
They believe the whole thing about nasty Republicans filibustering, as if Democrats could not stop it if they wanted. They think that Lieberman is evil, and don’t understand why he is not punished for his behavior. They want Obama to call Joe and straighten him out.
Some think, with the “health care” bill, that the Democrats will pull a rabbit from the hat in the reconciliation process. One guy thinks that’s the whole game – that we are going to get real reform out of reconciliation, because the Democrats have been playing it close to the vest to keep AHIP and PhRMA from bombarding us with ads. They are pulling a fast one, those Democrats. That’s why the health lobbyists have been lined up at the White House while progressives can’t get a phone call returned.
A few more stoic souls called to remind the others that you don’t always get what you want in a deliberative process. These few don’t seem to realize that “compromise” usually means that you get something, and that getting nothing, or getting stuffed, is not quite the same.
And none took the time to ask why it is always the progressive wing of the Democratic Party that has to do the compromising.
It’s a wasteland out there. A vast wasteland.
Piece of Mindful 
I see it a bit differently.
The Democrats have craftily laid out a far left agenda. They have Nancy Pelosi, the most far left Democrat, installed as Speaker. They have Obama, a complete and total communist (heck, he’s not even a citizen) installed as President. With those two leading the charge, along with legislative mechanic Harry Reid mopping up details, the Dems are making a maximun reach to socialize the entire US economy under the guise of handling an emergency. They are reaching for the most they can possibly get. If they don’t get it all, they have the satisfaction of getting way more than they deserve in a country that consistently polls far more conservative than it is governed.
Your complaints are those of the shill convincing the sucker he got a deal.
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I was in Barcelona a few years ago on May Day. They had a parade – no floats or TV cameras – it was just the labor unions. The parade went on for miles, and they just walked and joined arms in solidarity and made happy.
There is no left in the United States. That’s something you need to know.
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Mark,
There is no Right left either (pun intended).
There is one party – has been only one party since 1936 – and its fascist/socialist party.
One agenda is US hegemony globally.
The other, US intrusion locally.
Neither contradicts the other’s agenda.
Consequence: US hegemony and intrusion locally and globally.
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