Reply #266: I would buy that if he even deigned to listen to a progressive expert now and then.

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You can't be believed as someone who is trying to do the right thing if you only listen to representatives of the country's most powerful interests, have no progressive wonks even in secondary advisory positions, and send someone to give a tongue-lashing to progressive journalists who simply try to "make you" move in the people's interest.

It doesn't help his credibility that he expands on the loss of civil liberties in the Patriot Act. That he takes no action when Northcom integrates active duty military into "tactical response teams" doing crowd control at large peaceful demonstrations in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. Or when he doesn't see fit to investigate and fire attorneys in the DOJ who have gone and are going out of their way to persecute liberals like ACORN and Siegelman on trumped up charges.

He says "make me" and then has people surveil you or gas you if you try to.