Reply #16: We have to find a way to be heard through the bubble

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This article is exactly right about the bubble in Washington being far right of most of the country. It is irritating to read how Obama campaigned as a progressive in the primaries to get progressives on board and moved to the center for the general (irritating but forgivable). But it is stunning to watch the move to the right since inauguration. And no amount of moving the opinion of the country to the left has gotten through. Can anyone tell me just what the hell he meant when he said, "make me do it?"

With the teabaggers out in full force through August, support for single payer/public option was still there with the majority. I came out of August encouraged cause the right threw their worst at us and the court of public opinion rejected the RW talking points. And, in the end, the president pushed a right wing bill, anyway. He could, easily, have taken the case of the public's desire to the...ahem...moderate...cough...Democratic senators and used a little political capital to get some progressivity into the bill. But he is either in the grips of the corporate interests or he is insulated from the people. Either way, we're getting moved further right on policy than I ever would have thought possible under Democratic rule.