Obama's Chamberlain Impersonation Fuels New Progressive Uprising

[Purveyor]

Summer of 2009, Democratic lawmakers were swarmed by phone callers and town hall attendees by the then-nascent teabagger movement, furious at the creeping socialism of a government-run health insurance option. You see, Republicans were so worried that the government-run program would be so efficient, effective, and affordable that it would drive the private insurers out of business. And their teabagger allies rose up in unison to defeat this great threat while progressives, burned by serial Democratic capitulation, essentially sat disgusted on the sidelines.

Democratic leaders ignored signs of an intensity gap in 2010, and proceeded to further capitulation and inaction on issue after issue important to base Democrats. In December 2009, I literally had David Axelrod argue with me in the Green Room of ABC News' This Week that the base would come home because -- I shit you not -- Obama would score big points for negotiating the START treaty. That's when I knew we were doomed in 2010.

Of course, the intensity gap was real, and base Democrats sat on their asses and let Republicans score massive gains in the House and Senate, and punishing Nancy Pelosi -- the best Democrat in DC.

But now, progressives finally seem fired up. REALLY fired up. And it's not because of the latest GOP outrage, but because Obama may have finally capitulated once too many times. They're lighting up the phone lines.

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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/12/7/926519/-Obamas-Chamberlain-impersonation-fuels-new-progressive-uprising

[Uzybone]

1. its about time "Progressives" started calling someone

They've sat on their hands for the past 2 years.

[Teaser]

2. They'll sit on their hands again.

They will gripe, moan, and complain. And then congress will pass this deal, while griping, moaning, and complaining.

Congressional progressives have no power. none. Watch. You will witness them fold like an origami duck, once again, on this.

[FrenchieCat]

3. base Democrats sat on their asses

and let Republicans score massive gains in the House and Senate, and punishing Nancy Pelosi -- the best Democrat in DC.



I didn't sit on my ass.....so I'm not responsible for the dumb shit.

[monmouth]

4. Nancy truly is the best Democrat in DC and should seriously, very

seriously be considered for a possible candidate. I doubt she would want it, she is 70, but still.

[LiberalFighter]

5. They thought that Obama would score big with the START Treaty?

Are they kidding? The American voters would care less about that when the next election happens. It probably wouldn't make their top 100 list.

[ProSense]

6. Have to agree with these comments

Front page of Daily Kos goes Godwin. (

Shame!!

If I could HR you, Markos, I would.

Neville Chamberlain..

comparisons are not productive for anybody.

What do you hope to accomplish with that kind of Bullshit?

Kos is now trying to emulate the FDL/Cenk model for generating outrage.

[xchrom]

7. Recommend

[Laelth]

8. Good for Kos. Well said.

This, for example:

the only time Obama shows any fight is when he's whipping Democrats to go along with his latest cave-in.

This isn't entirely accurate, but it sums up the feelings of many.

-Laelth