Does Obama Catch Too? Or Just Roll Over?

Blue America has raised about $2,000,000 for progressive candidates and issues. We helped elect some great candidates and a few who turned into real stinkers. One, Chris Carney, we even asked to return the money he got from us under false pretenses. There's no chance we would ever ask President Obama for our money back we gave his campaign. That's because we didn't give one cent to his campaign, having carefully studied his Senate voting record. You see, as we warned all during the campaign, despite Fox/Limbaugh spin that Obama was the most liberal member of the Senate, he was actually the 46th most liberal member-- not quite as liberal as Joe Lieberman but a smidge more liberal than reactionary goon Mark Pryor. Look at this chart from Progressive Punch:


So I can't even say "I want my money back" and I would never say "I want my vote back," because all he ever was (to me) was a relatively cool symbol and... much better than McCain. Well, maybe not that much better. But somewhat better. I certainly voted for him knowing full well what we were getting. So I can't say I'm disappointed in all the compromising with Republicans over everything; it's really what comes natural to him. If you thought he would pursue charges against Bush or any of the criminal elements around him... well, he didn't mean that much change. Basically he was talking about small change. Incremental, imperceptible small little teeny weeny changes here and there gradually sometimes maybe... if he can find 80 votes for it.

My friend Danny Fields, a perceptive observer of the political scene for many decades, thinks Obama is more than role playing in the way he plays out The Prince. I want to believe the same. But at this point it will have to be proven to me-- with a big red bow around it. Why is he giving a reactionary like Judd Gregg an important and consequential Cabinet position and not even getting a Democratic replacement senator out of it. Danny is certain that Boehner hasn't read The Prince and that he has the IQ of a bean, unless he managed to stumble across a Classic Comics version. Anyway, maybe Obama just wants a real break with liberals. I think so. Well, good luck to him when they do to him what they did to the last Democrat who played footsy with them. Or maybe Danny is right.