Far left-winger David Michael Green gets positively medieval on Obama’s ass for incompetently ruining liberalism in America. Can’t say I agree with all his points, but it’s a tasty buffet of pull-quotes:
There’s only one political party in the entire world that is so inept, cowardly and bungling that it could manage to simultaneously lick the boots of Wall Street bankers and then get blamed by the voters for being flaming revolutionary socialists.
Obama and his colleagues have now managed to bring the future of the Democratic Party into question, just a year after it won two smashing victories in a row. Personally, I’m not real bothered by that. Today’s Democrats are, almost without exception, embarrassing hacks who deserved to get stomped a long time ago.
Barack Obama has now, in just a year’s time, become the single most inept president perhaps in all of American history, and certainly in my lifetime. Never has so much political advantage been pissed away so rapidly, and what’s more in the context of so much national urgency and crisis. It’s astonishing, really, to contemplate how much has been lost in a single year.
“[Obama has] let Congress ‘lead’ on nearly every issue, another surefire mistake. Instead of demanding that they pass real stimulus legislation – which would have really stimulated the economy, big-time, and right now – he let those dickheads on the Hill just load up a big pork party blivet of a bill with all the pet projects they could find, designed purely to benefit their personal standing with the voters at home, rather than to actually produce jobs for Americans. And on health care, his signature issue, he did the same thing. ‘You guys write it, and I’ll sign the check.’ Could there possibly be a greater prescription for failure than allowing a bunch of the most venal people on the planet to cobble together a 2,000 page monstrosity that entirely serves their interests and those of the people whose campaign bribes put them in office?”
I wouldn’t necessarily say to read the whole thing, as they’re the usual left-wring rant stuff in there as well (Dick Cheney, corporate dictatorship, fascist, blah blah blah), but it goes a long way to show that it’s not just the right and middle that have lost faith in Obama. Even the nutroots are starting to sour.
Hat Tip: Ron Smith of The Baltimore Sun
Tags: David Michael Green, Democratic Party, Obama, Ron Smith