Alienating Blacks with Progressive Kneejerking

The poutrage is alienating more than just blacks. It is also alienating many progressive democrats who realize that change takes time and requires many a compromise along the way. Just as most community organizers know you take what concessions you can and keep on plugging to improve policies over time. Threats to stay home in the next campaign ignore the many positive changes in government that would be undercut by a return of republicans: from the courts, enforcement of environmental regulations, competent governance, equal rights, equal pay, safety net, health care improvements and so on. Don’t they remember the last 8 years?!!

Add to the alienated: Young Voters.

Some of us saw this so-called “poutrage” coming last year. I am not surprised in the slightest that this has occurred not even a year into the man’s first term. What gets me is that some of these “progressive” advocates still believe they’ll have lucrative careers after the undermining has taken place. Very curious, that right there. I’m looking at Markos and his ilk, in particular. Appearances on MSNBC aren’t very convincing to some of us. This goes for Howard Dean, too, who seems to have taken marching orders from NBC brass.The corruption of the fourth estate is no longer cute. Actually, it’s quite pathetic, if not merely annoying.Oh, and shut your teevees off if you don’t want to be inundated with the latest “terrorist act” fairytale.

Those liberals and progressives jumping on the anti-Obama bandwagon will succeed only in putting Republicans back in power. Congratulations ahead of time, dumbasses.

Poutrage, I like that.

I didn’t watch it because I can’t stand his nasally whine, but the replaytv channel guide description for chris mathews show yesterday was, “Journalists debate when Obama’s presidency went wrong during his first year.” I think that’s the exact wording; if not that was the gist.

The daily self-righteous outrage by the far-left is completely transparent and the soap box they are standing on is very short-statured.I think they alienate themself, not other parties.

Poutrage!Awesome word of the year!Right, Bob?Right?

I think “poutrage” was coined by Al Giordano at The Field who has posted frequently about the Chicken Littles of the “left liberal” blogs who like to posture but have little grounding in the realities of politics on the ground and the interests of the many working people who will benefit from even incremental change. Cesca, Balloon Juice (John Cole), Booman Tribune all fall in the same category of sane responsible progressives, working daily to help drag this country towards a more humane, just society that benefits us all.

Dammit, Bob, there you go acting like a grown-up again! Don’t you know the proper progressive response to an unpleasant encounter with reality is either to sulk or throw a tantrum? Didn’t you get the memo?Jeez, is there something about being politically engaged that causes brain damage? /crankiness

Actually, Markos and Howard Dean both have said that killing the bill is not what they were suggesting. And Dean has said that he intends to campaign for the President. There are several who have gone off the deep end.

Yes, Tracy.I posted over at Taylor Marsh’s blog a list of accomplishments of President Obama, I googled for about 5 minutes and copy and pasted lists from a few different websites. It’s quite impressive, I recommend a few minutes with google, it helped to remind me that regardless of the barrage of negative spinning of his first year, he really did a ton of great things. The commenters over there just ripped it up, including Taylor, I don’t remember one of them conceding that he did a single one of the accomplishments. That’s just crazy. If they are really progressive, and I doubt that they really are, how can they not admit one good thing about him? It really makes you wonder what motivates them.

Those of us who do support our democratic president need to organize and make a concerted effort to counter the spin machine that has gone into effect which has brought together Grover Norquist and FDL. Their goal is to bring down the president and paint his first year as a failure. I don’t doubt that Hamsher really thinks that she needs to do it to pressure the president from the left, but really, there is a proper way to do it if you expect the administration you are attacking to side with you at some point. I tend to agree with those who think Jane and her henchmen really don’t want to progress, they thrive on being the underdog, whining, “poutrage”…..I love it.

I think we all need to remember in government there is no instant gratification. The exception that proves the rule? Look at out history….the internment of those of Japanese decent in WWII and more recently, the so called patriot act. The only time we do anything fast is when we are denying our citizens of their rights. Can we all agree that our government, while frustratingly slow, is still the best system of government in the world? For those on the left who are going to stay home next year and rally against this President and dems….try opening a history book. The important things that change peoples lives for the better have never started out perfect, nor is perfect. The reason is because the founding fathers wanted to ‘form a more perfect union’. That takes time. While we aren’t where we should be, we have been in a ditch for 8-30 years, we aren’t where we were. That is a remarkable success and if you don’t/want to/can’t see it, then I feel pity for you.

It’s funny how so many liberals (who ordinarily would never believe a word the conservatives said) bought into the Republican line that Obama is the most liberally liberal liberal in the whole history of liberalism. Now they are horrified to find out that he’s not an extremist. They seem equally horrified that he’s even a (gasp!) POLITICIAN!

Fact: many, many progressives/liberals will sit on their asses instead of voting in 2010 – regardless of color!If the electorate is losing faith in Obama it’s only because they’re not really paying attention.

Add to the alienated: Latino Voters.

The comments here illustrate why the left is always used in obnoxious ways, pushed aside, taken for granted and generally thought of as a fringe left wing bunch of nutbags by other so called Democrats, after they put a so called Democrat in the White House.Progressives don’t cave, they don’t say “take what we can get”, they don’t say “sometimes we have to compromise, even with ourselves”.Wishy washy pathetically spineless democrats do that, say that, and will always end up on the shit end of the stick because of it. See current health care profit protection act for illustration.”Can we all agree that our government, while frustratingly slow, is still the best system of government in the world?”NO.

tell us, idabamaho, how could not caving have brought us any sort of healthcare reform? What could the most liberal or the most self-righteous Senator have done to force a bill will satisfy all that the wishes of those on the left?Would you be happier to have no reform at all? Because that’s the option now – a conference committee bill which will look a lot like the Senate bill or the status quo. The bill is far from perfect but it will still help millions of people. Would you prefer to help none?

Black woman here…Happily tuning out most progressives, keeping my criticisms of the president entirely to myself, and planning to vote in the 2010 elections…QT

I’ve also noticed that some of these so-called “progressives” are resorting to calling President Obama all sorts of names that have racial overtones or are even outright racial epithets (and no, I am not going to repeat them on this forum). Jane Hamsher herself got into trouble a few years ago for showing a cartoon depicting Lieberma in blackface and never really apologized for itI think the Obama presidecy is really exposing some of those on the far left as the hate-filled extremists that they are. Perhaps they have much more in common with the teabaggers than we think

I’d said about two weeks ago that some of these demi-activists reminded me of the so-called “teabaggers.” It wasn’t just the scatterbrained insults and myopia with regards to President Obama himself. Now I know that there are ‘Con sockpuppets mingling with some of those frustrated on the left, as evidenced by some, including myself, that called out the charlatans. The fact that some of those indulging in the “poutrage” never really knew where they stood in the first place makes it very easy for them to be seduced by those seeking to undermine the Democrats. These people I’ve called trend-followers, and yes, as Jim In Michigan implies, they love being perpetual underdogs, forever playing the role of Rudy, Daniel-san, or worse, Smurfs. Oh, but you won’t actually get them to admit this, of course. They pretend that it is their representatives that are the so-called “spineless” ones, not those with the patience of a pigeon.With regards to Charles’ allusion to the immaturity exposed on the left, it was always there ready to be seen. It’s just that culturally and politically, people of color have always been at the bottom, exactly where the “liberal” sect needs us to be in order to exploit us. Now that Barack Hussein Obama is in the WH, some of these individuals feel that he’s beholden to them solely, never mind what the rest of us believed when we voted for the man. Personally, the scenario is playing out just as I’d expected. I’m not surprised in the slightest by how any of this has played out. I don’t know what some of these demi-activist were doing last year, but I knew what I was committing to when I went into the voting booth last year. There will be no bargaining for backsies coming from Lexaburn.A pox on the demi-activists, the whelps. In life you’ve got to have something to get something. They began with nothing, and they got Barack Obama. They’re not getting anything else, so they’d better start recognizing their own deficiencies. They bought into the hype of the “Democrat majority” to the point where they believe themselves to be infallible. If they’d actually recognized the reality, they would have seen the senate shenanigans coming a mile away and would not be amplifying the stupidity like the right-wing needs to out of political desperation.