The White House, Chamber Of Commerce Attempt Rapprochement

confuseddemocrat   14 minutes ago (4:33 PM)

Yes, Obama has been disappointing in his willingness to compromise with the GOP and  the CoC and accept conditions which are counter to many of the liberal/ moderate principles of FDR and Democratic party

However, to take our marbles and go home  or to mount a destructive primary which will lead to party division is NOT the answer.

The answer is to work to defeat the newly elected GOP politicians and the cadre of weak GOP senators that will be up for election in 2012.

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Nice idea, but that's not possible with the DLC working with Republicans against it. 

Obama and the DLC have worked their butts off to PREVENT more progressiv­es/liberal­s from getting elected. Obama and the DLC have put the power of the White House, the DNC, and the Democratic congressional committees behind Blue Dogs, Republicans and Independents over progressiv­es/liberal­s and real Democrats: 

Blue Dog Blanche Lincoln over progressive Democrat Lt. Governor Bill Halter. 

Republican­-turned-In­dependent Arlen Specter over progressive Democrat Joe Sestak. 

Republican­-turned-In­dependent Lincoln Chaffee over Democrat Frank Caprio (which, in turn, is an effective endorsement of the Republican John Loughlin over Democrat David Cicilline for the congressional seat Democrat Patrick Kennedy is retiring from, and all of the other seats up for grab in Rhode Island). 

Republican­-turned-In­dependent Charlie Crist over liberal Democrat Kendrick Meek. 

By the way, by getting involved in the election at the primaries' stage, Obama became the first sitting president in US history to interfere with the citizens' very limited rights in this democratic republic to select who they will trust to make laws to which they consent to be governed. 

Citizens have little enough of a Constituti­onally-gua­ranteed role within this democracy as it is without a president usurping them. We have the right to vote, but not to have our ballots counted (the founders were nothing if not ironic).  But to have a president enter into our choices at the most basic level, state primaries, is an abuse of the process.
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