'Battered Obama Syndrome' Dems Bring Out The Styrofoam Torches & Pitchforks

I have got to herald Marc Rubin’s (“tom in paine”’s) so deserved, delicious and yet depressing diatribe against the colossal impotence of collective doormat TEAM DEM as Obama continues to amiably and relentlessly dismantle democracy . Un-friggin'-believable.

Rubin launches :

I received an email not too long ago from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee asking me to sign a petition that threatened Obama by telling him that if he sold out on social security and Medicare, they would, in no uncertain terms vote for him anyway.

I'm not kidding. That's what it said. If there has ever been a weaker more pathetic more useless political threat ever made I haven't seen it.

This, it seems, is what it is to be a "progressive". And they really wonder why they didn't get a public option, a decent financial reform law and an end to the Bush tax cuts and why Obama is ready to sell out anything to get a deal on the debt ceiling.

Rubin explains that the Progressive Campaign Change Committee a/k/a (oxymoronically) “Bold Progressives” managed to get 200,000 signatures to challenge the White House about its threats to cut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. 200,000 signatures. GREAT! EXCEPT .... their threat was TO REFUSE TO DONATE OR VOLUNTEER FOR OBAMA’S RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN if he cuts entitlements. At the same time, they make it crystal clear they still intend to vote for him whatever he does.

"It's not a question of who they're going to support for president, they're going to vote for Barrack Obama. It's a question of where their time and money is going to go," spokesman T. Neil Sroka said."

WTF????? Like he needs ANY of us to work for him and give him money, as if we had money to give to him thanks to his Wall-Street-loving economy, after Obama has basketed and will continue to reap the millions and millions of bribes he came through on and continues to come through on for the rabid rat bastard corporatist pimps during his anti-the-common-good years in office. HAH!!!!!

Obama does, however, need VOTES, Rubin points out, and APPARENTLY THE FECKLESS FAUX-PROGRESSIVES JUST CAN’T SEEM TO GO THAT FAR IN WITHHOLDING THEM. ARE THERE REALLY STILL SO MANY MORALLY MYOPIC AND MENTALLY CHALLENGED DEM LEMMINGS LEFT?

Rubin points out that the Tea Partiers scare the ever-loving sh*t out of the Republican politicians by declaring NO VOTES if the empathy-challenged Republicans don’t knuckle under to their mandates. These politicians see blood in the Tea Partiers’ eyes. Tea Partiers may be heartless but they sure ain’t gutless.

What does Obama see among the impotently petulant faux-progressive WIMPY WIMPY WIMPY Dems? Nothing. He isn’t even looking in their direction. Obama hasn’t bothered to look even a fraction to the left since he entered office.

Rubin’s take:

While these groups are filled with well meaning people with good intentions, they are obviously still bamboozled over race, afraid to criticize, afraid to get tough, afraid to dump Obama as so many others finally have and are still suffering from Battered Obama Syndrome, refusing to leave, refusing to say enough is enough, and coming back for more. The proof of their ineffective politicking is they have gotten zero results in two years even though Democrats had the biggest majority in 60 years. And what did they expect with threats like " we will vote for you anyway even if you lie again and betray again everything we believe in".

What's needed in the Democratic party finally is a real revolt among liberals to remake the Democratic party and get as tough with Democratic politicians and Obama as the Tea Party gets with Republicans. And that means letting the Democrats know they will not under any circumstances vote for Obama in the next presidential election or any Democrat who supports his policies, and start demanding that a credible Democrat challenge Obama in the primaries for the nomination.

That is the only way real progress can be made and unless liberals and even the groups that call themselves progressive, like the PCCC and MoveOn make it clear they've had it with Obama's sell outs, his brazen lies and his total lack of principle and conviction, Democrats and Obama are going to continue to get steam rolled by Republicans who show they are just tougher than they are even when all of the facts are against them and all of the facts AND proven results are on the Democrats' side.

We need to pledge NOT to vote for Obama. I PLEDGE! When do we say ENOUGH? Let the lost lemmings attend a 12-step group for “Dems Who Love Obama Too Much” so the rest of us can begin to recover our democracy.

[cross-posted at correntewire]