Barack Obama doesn’t fear the enraged, impotent Netroots
Barack Obama isn’t even President yet, and he’s already angering some of his most devoted followers on the party’s left wing. This is the mark of what could be a very successful presidency.
“With its congressional majority, the Democratic Party has refused to seriously try to end the war, to stop the bailout and to stop the trampling of civil liberties, just to name a few off the top of my head,” wrote David Sirota on the popular liberal blog OpenLeft, decrying the serial betrayals of Obama and the congressional Democratic majority. The Democratic Party, he wrote, has “faced no real retribution” for its manifold heresies, something that Sirota believes he and his band of angry bloggers must change. “We better understand why this happened,” he fumed.
Allow me to provide an answer. You don’t matter.
Gosh. The “moderate middle mainstream GOP,” fresh from its “triumphant” victory in 2004, sent exactly the same message to its conservative base - “You don’t matter.”
How’d that work out for y’all?
Let’s see how hard those fundraising machines work for the “you don’t matter” crowd like Krichick - and Obama - and the Dem majorities - in 2010.
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Now why would they want to stop what they pushed through?
Perhaps this is more of the Feiler Faster Thesis in action - the Dems took 40 years to blow their House majority, then the GOP blows theirs in 12…perhaps the Dems can set a new record and blow theirs in 4?
Shhh…don’t want to snicker too loud…let the Nutroots keep on finding out - at their own pace, and from events yet to come - just how thoroughly unsatisfactory it’s going to be to them over the next few years.
Their Savior, Hussein The One, is going to show them - all in good time - just what it’s like to “buy into” a “professional” politician; the kind who’s not only not very good at actually running things, but also refuses to stay “bought.”