John Aravosis has an excellent post up about the President's failure to accomplish anything that his substantial gay contingent of supporters were promised and also the rest of the tens of millions who voted for him and expected him to try to accomplish. You can find the post here:

http://gay.americablog.com/2010/09/were-quickly-heading-towards-zero-major.html

I cannot resist posting a little excerpt from Aravosis here:

"Barack Obama is on the precipice of accomplishing a grand total of none of his major promises to gay and lesbian Americans in return for our supporting his candidacy with our votes and our money. I'm not smelling change.

"What do the apologists, who criticized our criticism at every turn, say now?

"1. That it's not Obama's fault that we're about to lose the House? Perhaps, though I would argue that it's precisely Obama's fault that Democrats are in such a sorry state. After all, who's the leader of our party? Who took the lead in setting our agenda last year, and took the lead in dumbing down every single Democratic accomplishment from the stimulus to health care reform so that none of them would have a significant enough impact to win over the American people, cure our economic and health care woes, and thus create a strong case for maintaining Democratic control of Washington?"

Listen, fella, don't you bother my Senator Amy. She's out there trying to steal babies from Nepal (no I'm not making that up). Don't waste her time.

I just saw the most appalling headline posted in my local paper. Here it is:

Obama Sees Areas For Compromise With GOP

I cannot believe that! Is he possibly the most gullible sot ever to serve in the office? Does he enjoy being made to look like a sucker? What gives? Does he know there is an election in 7 weeks and that he has nearly single handedly handed the House of Representatives to the right wing of the Republican Party?

Here's a link to the article:
http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/article_46d2f4c4-49bc-5017-b25d-a949dd529807.html

Think of the screeching insane eruptions and attacks from the GOP crackpots if Obama had actually done something liberal, like passed single payer....

I have. Many times. And all the more reason for Obama to stand and fight instead of capitulate in advance as he did on every major issue thus far.

It would have been just what we saw while he was compromsing away everything for nothing and that really is the whole point. The timid President and the DC Dems who are just like him get blamed for socialism and single payer anyway at the slightest hint of any kind of reform. The GOP shouts and screams as loud and long as they are capable of doing anyway. Why not do what is right just once instead of knowingly choosing to be Charlie Brown to the GOP's Lucy promising she won't take the football away this time. Their idiotic decision to continue the same losing strategy is beyond comprehension. What was it Einstein said about insisting on doing the same thing over and over when it doesn't work? The definition of insanity? Yup!

Just trying to help you get over 50% non-Oleeb comments here....

I'm not sure what's worse, the Right's insidious attack on the legitimacy of this President, or the constant screeching from the Left that he's the worst thing to happen to Democrats since Herbert Hoover. Talk about counterproductive.

Someone needs to remind you there's an election in 7 weeks. The President's made his case in the past week, and its a strong one. If the Dems in Congress quit squabbling and adopt Obama's very simple message, November will be a bad one. But not to worry, either way, Obama will still be President and you'll be able to continue holding him up as the root of all Evil.

Why don't you tell my Senator Amy? She thinks the main message is stealing infants from Nepal followed closely by honey laundering. Again, I do not make that up. But much easier to blame the left than notice the total absence of election effort by the faux progressive centrists in Congress.

I had predicted a Cage Fighter would run for President before 2020. Probably as a Republican.

Another useful post, Oleeb. Maybe the non-extinct reader blog medium is your forte after all.

I will look for Dean's book. I certainly found "Worse than Watergate" an informative read. The title of the new book bothers me a bit, since it seems to needlessly insult actual conservatives to dignify these morons with a label that applied to the likes of Edmund Burke, William Graham Sumner, Milton Friedman, or even Barry Goldwater.

Racists of the past at least knew how to spell "nigra."

It was quite possibly the worst possible plan for faux healthcare reform anyone could have devised. I mean seriously, who the fuck thought it was a good idea to phase in the benefits so that no significant swath of the population would experience any relief and what benefits were planned don't take effect for three fucking years? It's astounding anybody, anywhere could buy that kind of half assed, warmed over pap!

As for the strong case the President has made, well you're kidding right?

If that was a strong case then I'm George Washington. It was limp as a rubber chicken but better than the silence of the previous six months I'll grant ya that.

Do you honestly think Obama has done a good job? Do you think that if those of us who oppose the stuff he's done kept quiet that things would be better? Do you not see how the President himself has undermined, sabotaged, and reversed himself when it comes to almost everything he campaigned on?

I thought Aravosis put it well when he wrote:

"It's becoming increasingly clear that Barack Obama is not an agent of change. He's not out to fundamentally transform our government or our country, and he's never going to be anyone's fierce advocate."

That's hard to argue with given the record.

Oleeb you have a massive ego that needs to be checked. And I believe you are the one that is gullible and plenty foolish. I look at that picture of the people he is talking to (in the link you provided) and I have to wonder what kind of moron thinks its time for the president to spew partisan rhetoric. I know you've called the president a liar plenty of times, typical corporatist whore or whatever, so why is it that you so easily buy into his bipartisanship talk? What arrogance to think that you can see what the GOP really stands for and Obama can't? THEY WORK WITH THESE GUYS!!! HE WAS ONCE A SENATOR!!

And I love how some of you Progressives just sit around and criticize what the Dems are doing or NOT doing. Where the hell has the Left been in the past 20 months? The Tea Party was YOUR opportunity to get yourselves noticed. Instead you just relied on Obama to save you or bashed him to get attention from the MSM. Where is the Left's spine? Put your money where your mouth is? You guys don't have guts, you just have a lot of mouth. all talk no action. Stop hiding behind Daddy and fight. You think all these blogs are gonna do something? You think the Tea Party is only hurting Obama and the Dem agenda?

Smart can easily beat Stupid (eventually, most of the time, and with a bit of effort, as Abe Lincoln told us) but not if Smart is Spinelessly-Smart. Stupid barges ahead as before because it is too lazy to bother rejigging a strategy that was more often than not successful against Smart-but-Spineless. Expecting Spineless to continue forgetting and forgiving past horrors committed by Stupid, the latter now gains strength anew.

I'll keep saying the solutions to our problems lie at the state level. Washington is not going to change. Only a complete fiscal meltdown would prompt any change. If we want solutions to our issues, we need to pull the plug on Washington and have our federal tax dollars returned in block grants to the states, and let them manage their education, health care, etc... This is the Canadian model, and it seems to work pretty well for them.

Hoo doggies! I use the word niggardly periodically (it's a useful word, IMO), did so online once, and was called a racist.

Good grief. ;o)

Hang on a minute so I can stop laughing at your amazingly naive comment.

Okay, now let's see... it isn't ego. It's eyeballs and common sense. Something apparently that you and your fearlessly naive leader lack.

"I have to wonder what kind of moron thinks its time for the president to spew partisan rhetoric."
You're serious? C'mon now really? Well, if you really can pose such a question with a straight face the answer is anyone with half a brain and some common sense who would like to see Democrats win.

If your leader sees what is going on why does he continue with his foolish, losing strategy? Something's wrong in DC and alot of it is named Barack Obama. Too bad there are still people like you who prefer to deny the obvious. How do you explain why things are becoming exponentially worse? Hmmmm? And yeah, he was a Senator for less than one term who apparently didn't pay any attention at all to what was happening politically in Washington either before or after he arrived there.

Then you said: "Where the hell has the Left been in the past 20 months?" At first, the left was the staunchest support Obama had. Then he double crossed everyone who voted for him servicing the rich, the crooks on Wall Street, the insurance and pharmacuetical industries, the oil companies, the telecoms, and of course the Republicans in the Senate. Whilst servicing his favored clientele, the President and his trusted advisors were bad mouthing liberals, the left, organized labor, and generally anyone who raised their voices to point out that the administration was doing the opposite of what it had promised us. the left spent a great deal of time since the beginning (as Aravosis points out) warning Obama and company how disasterous their decisions were and those voices were universally dismissed and ignored. Funny thing though, the left was right on all counts and Obama and his coterie were wrong on every single issue. Every single one. Every tactical move was wrong and every strategic decision was wrong because each of them gave the advantage to the Republicans and the interests of the predator class at the expense of the average American.

I find your naive determination to stick with the President's losing strategy a sad but interesting phenomenon. Please explain how failing to focus on putting common Americans back to work, keeping them in their homes, and protecting their interests instead of the corporations and the interests of the rich is a good strategy for Democrats. I'd love to hear your analysis of how brilliant the 3-D chess player is now and how magically it will all turn out alright. Go ahead. We're all ears.

You can, however, defeat stupid and crazy. But that requires standing up and fighting them. You can't win by trying to appease stupid, crazy people because there is no appeasing them because... they are stupid and crazy!

Not to intrude into the stupid hate-fest, but I wish you'd differentiate between stupid and ignorant. You have some willful ignorance going on here, but ignorance can be sometimes be educated, but condescension doesn't do well as a teaching mode.

It's how Bob Schieffer (spelling?) got Bone-er to admit tax cuts expiring for the middle class would be a good thing. Shieffer knew the numbers; Boehner didn't, and got schooled. Maybe a poor example, but one on one can work...

While you are correct when discussing normal persons I would say you're probably wrong when it comes to authoritarian personalities such as those we are dealing with on the extreme right wing of the Republican Party. They cannot be schooled. The scientific data demonstrate that facts that don't fit their world view are merely rejected out of hand regardless. Thus, global warming is not real all well documented facts notwithstanding. Thus, evolution is only a "theory" all scientific data notwithstanding. Obama is a muslum born in Kenya is the truth despite their being no evidence whatsoever for those claims and that they are demonstrably false. This authoritarian personality stuff is extremely important if we are to beat these lunatics back and re-establish sanity in our public policy and politics.