Obama's Passive Conservatism Is Making a Lot of People Angry

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.alternet.org/news/151937/obama%27s_passive_conservatism_is_making_a_lot_of_people_angry/


OK, it's done, the party's over. For the umpteenth time, President Obama rolled over. Call it capitulation, surrender or betrayal. He swallowed the economic suicide pill. There wasn't even a sham battle before agreeing to the "grand bargain" to keep "our fiscal house in order".

What's the point of screaming at Obama that he's backstabbed us – again? He is what we are: intelligent, articulate, tasteful, restrained and without guts. In 2008, we hungered for a Jesus of Nazareth to save us, and instead, we got Barack of Hyde Park, the University of Chicago's stately, snooty enclave.

We got what we asked for, which is a rightwing Democratic administration in some ways more retrograde than Reagan or Nixon's. This gets lost in a fog of insider jargon like "pragmatic" and "consensus", or Obama's tired catchphrases "let me be clear" when he's at his foggiest and "it will not be easy" – meaning, we're screwed. It's hard to digest the truth, which is that Obama likes, and in his technocratic heart agrees with, the Republican economic diagnosis that what's wrong with America is not six wars (and counting) or 17-24 million jobless – but us average fools upon whom the profligate government lavishes too much money on "entitlements" like social security (which we've paid for out of our own pockets).

The next battle's high ground already conceded is the upcoming (and stacked) deficit "super commission", a thinly disguised attack on the vulnerable poor – a designation that now includes a whole bunch of us who used to be middle-class. And now, having run out of steam and options, Obama, who has done almost nothing on mass unemployment, has embarked on that great dodge, an absurd "listening tour".

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[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. His continual selling out has achieved a certain shrug, "as usual", plateau.

"Listening tour" - aka Fund raising electoral campaign.

[nevergiveup]

2. I thought we wanted him to go on a "listening tour".

:shrug:

[Faryn Balyncd]

3. "Given the choice between a Republican and a Democrat who acts like a Republican, give 'em hell."

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[amborin]

5. kr

[indepat]

6. Me thinks Obama's passive conservatism gets more overtier by the

day, i.e., expansion of wars, fiscal policy, tax policy, leading the GOP's war on entitlements, caving to GOP solutions to fix economic woes including entitlement cuts rather taxes on those who have accumulated most of the nation's wealth, all which will only exacerbate the jobs market and overall economic conditions, appointment of extreme RWers, my God, what does it take for a person to be an overt, rather than a passive, conservative? :patriot:

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[swilton]

8. It's not just Obama - look at Senators Kerry and Durbin

arguing to cut Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid. They ignore the left because they believe we have no place to go. The Democratic Party is bankrupt and has nothing to campaign for - not it's own record for the past 3 years and not protecting Americans....It's not surprising that they've already started a campaign against Romney.

A new party is required even if it means sacrificing 2012 -

[in_cog_ni_to]

10. I agree.

Sacrifice.....And the Progressives start regrouping...MINUS Blue Dogs and Conservative Dems. They can have Obama and go start their own ConservaDem Party. The Progressive Party can be made up of LIBERAL Dems (Lefties, Tree Huggers, Bleeding heart, Commie-Pinkos), Progressive Dems, some Independents, and the Green Party. We have to seriously think about regrouping. It doesn't work anymore. There's too many Conservatives in the Dem Party now.

[dionysus]

13. pushing a third party, and throwing the election. awesome.

[Raksha]

9. K & R

[killbotfactory]

11. Obama is such a republican that Republicans have fought tooth and nail to block everything

he's tried to do or accomplished.

He's such a stealth republican, that even republicans don't have the sense to support him.

Ending DADT? republican
More women and left leaning supreme court nominess? republican
financial system reform? republican
consumer protection? republican
greatly increased fuel efficiency standards? republican
saving the auto industry from ruin? republican
healthcare reform? republican
increased oversight of oil and gas industry? republican
and so on.

If only republicans knew the truth. Maybe this should be posted at free republic so they could see the light.

[immoderate]

14. Notice that none of those actions will decrease wealth disparity.

They were all gifts to various corporations. Except they may not consider oversight stuff pro-industry. It doesn't hurt them. It will still cost us.

--imm

[Necronomiconomics]

12. Not Passive. Conyers: "Obama demanded SS cuts, NOT Republicans"

That's not passive.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Rep-Conyers-Obama-Demand-by-Jeanine-Molloff-110729-352.html