The left's dissatisfaction with Obama
Monday, August 30, 2010 at 05:00PM No, the left has not turned libertarian, they are crying for more statism. Ezra Klen and others on the left have criticized the filibuster because t doesn't allow majority rule in the Senate, and now in comment section after comment section of blogs and online newspaper articles I hear the left call for Obama to use any means necessary to get what he wants passed.
The building pressure among progressives for Obama to get tough and make things happen is worrisome. According to the progressives the stimulus was not big enough, the healthcare plan didn't contain a public option, and the financial bill was too soft on banks, plus cap and trade has not been passed, as well as cardcheck for unions. Obama has passed more sweeping statist legislation than any president since FDR, and the progressives are complaining he hasn't done enough.
How can Alan Wolfe-type liberals sit by silently while the progressives push for more government control? Liberals have got to stand down the progressives if they don't want to be pushed into dangerous territory which will ruin the Democrat Party for years to come. Liberals can spend their energy worried about conservatives, Tea Parties and Glenn Beck if they want to, but in the meantime they are being associated with the progressive push to turn our government into a statist nightmare.
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Reader Comments (2)
You've got to be kidding. Obama's two wars are dragging him down (yes, we are still engaged in Iraq, despite the hype) just like LBJ. One out of five workers is unemployed or underemployed, and for every new job opening, there are five applicant in line.
Businesses really need PURCHASE ORDERS far more than tax breaks. You can cut their taxes to zero, but without customers, it won't mean a damn thing. And the working class simply doesn't have the purchasing power to increase demand sufficiently, and even if they did, it would be spent at Walmart, making for job expansion in China, not here.
If Obama does what you want him to do, the GOP and the Tea Party will soon show you what a real draconian and authoritarian militarized state looks like.
So, what should Obama do?