Reply #151: Uhm

[kenfrequed]

I blame Evan Bayh and his blue dogs first and foremost. I have said this again and again and again but I don't think it is sinking in: The blue dogs hamstrung Obama in December of 2008 before he even took the oath of office.

They basically organized to block any legislation that was too progressive from moving or being considered. They were afraid of the blue wave from 2006 and 2008 undermining the power they had attained by sitting on the middle of the scale and collecting contributions.

So any legislation that was populist, progressive, inspiring, or that would have garnered PR victories was stuffed or dampened.

Some of Obama's picks for his advisors were in the DLC/blue dog camp and those that weren't were gradually wiped by one strange media attack or another.

But the Blue dogs destroyed themselves and what should have been a generational shift to the left by giving democrats nothing to run on. This depressed our own turn out in 2010 when the repukes were on the rise and the Blue dogs prevention of a coherent alternative to insanity once more cost us the win.

I really only fault President Obama just a little for the current mess.