I got news for you greybeard. Looks like most of the American public already supports Obama’s decision on birth control. By a nearly 2 to one majority, Americans agree with Obama. I don’t know who you think Obama needs to persuade on this issue, considering most Americans who can afford birth control have used it at one time or another. Those opposing Obama on birth control are Republican diehards, not moderate voters.

Thank you David for pointing out the rot at the heart of our democracy and the problem with enacting any progressive policies: our politicians and political system are bought and paid for by corporate America. Corporations run our media, and people like Chuck Todd are dependent on corporate largess. Most voters don’t realize that our corrupt finance system is the unified field theory of why we can’t get truly progressive policies out of Washington.

Also, the Washington establishment has never forgiven Stephen Colbert for lampooning Bush and the rest at that correspondence dinner.

I believe that Eli is referring to the DC Comic book character Bizarro, a Superman villain. Bizarro was created by Lex Luthor as the anti-Superman. He had Superman’s powers, but he was evil and dumb as a rock. Romney looks and acts just like Kerry (a political weakling who will say anything to get elected), but he is a Republican dufus instead of a Democratic one.

Cenk,

Thank you for this post. I’d love to believe what you are saying, but I’ve been waiting for Obama’s tipping point with progressives for a while now. Frankly, I am convinced that the Democratic base is not really reality based at all. From what I can see, the Democratic base is still sticking with Obama. Obama proposes to cut Social Security and Medicare for a BS Grand Deal on the debt, and liberals still give Obama the highest approvals out of any demographic group for the final deal?

WTF!

The only conclusion I can draw is that the Democratic base is NOT a reality based community at all. Instead, it engages in some of the same delusional thinking that the Republican base does. I find this all maddening and depressing.

I’m afraid that if the Democratic base ever really does sour on Obama, it will be right before the damn election. Fat lot of good that will do progressives then. Unless someone actually challenges Obama in the primaries, we are stuck with him for 2012. And I don’t think Obama can win reelection, nor does he deserve to win.

Thanks for the post David. Obama couldn’t negotiate his way out of a wet paper bag. It doesn’t pay to start negotiations with Republicans in the middle and work your way to the right for an eventual “deal.” However, to Obama, the progressive position on any policy issue is immediately jettisoned because he does not believe in progressivism. Obama thinks that he will be rewarded in 2012 by the massive hordes of independent and swing voters for his repeated sacrifices of progressivism.

Too bad for Obama those independent voters are a mirage.

Blue Texan,

I hope that you are right. I know that some Congressional Democrats have been critical of Obama, but it has all been done privately and not for attribution. Congressman John Yarmuth said at a Democratic meeting in Louisville in 2010 that Obama believes in Reaganomics. So far, however, Yarmuth has not been all over the airwaves or in print with Obama’s love of Reaganomics. I suppose that most Congressional Democrats are too afraid to piss off all the Obamabots in the Democratic Party.

Frankly, I find this an untenable situation for progressives. The so called Democratic base has built condominiums on the River Denial about Obama. Obama supporters dismiss his latest betrayels of Democratic principles as some type of “brilliant” master plan. When some progressive critics of Obama call him out, we are portrayed as malcontents or conspiracy nuts by everyone.

The only thing I can think of to shock Obamabots off of the River Denial is for Obama to advocate for the repeal of the Civil Rights Act in order to gain white votes in the South in 2012, but even then, I have my doubts that would work either.

Blue Texan,

Thanks for this post. It effectively illustrates Obama’s true colors. In 2007 and 2008, Obama was running as a Tribune of the Plebians. Now, Obama is governing like a Patrician, so why shouldn’t he run as one? It sickens me.