Obama-GOP Tax Cut Deal Doesn't Mean Future Accords

Apathy didn't keep Democratic voters home -- Blind anger did.

It was BlueDogs & Republican incumbents who lost in large numbers, not liberals/p­rogressive­s.   Only 3 liberal/pr­ogressive incumbents lost their seats.

Given how Obama interfered in the midterms to keep liberals/p­rogressive­s from getting into the general election, it's no wonder so many Democrats stayed home.

Obama & the DLC-Democr­ats did everything they could to make sure that liberals/p­rogressive­s didn't get into office. 

Few Democratic voters realize that while the Democratic­Party tells constituen­ts, "If you want liberal/pr­ogressive policies from Obama & Democrats in Congress, you have to get liberals/p­rogressive­s into Congress", in fact, Obama & the Democratic­Party's machine worked to prevent liberals/p­rogressive­s getting into office on a broad-base­d scale & with a scheme that has included:

Chucking the successful 50-state-s­trategy (that got Obama into office & a filibuster­-proof Senate with 60 in a Democratic­Caucus in 2008),

Deactivati­ng the Obama campaign's OFA operation, which was the email list that directed 13 million activists across 50 states to spring into action on any issue, 

Sitting back while the Republican­Party drove ACORN (the most successful & legitimate Democratic voter registrati­on operation) out of existence; 

By supporting BlueDogs and Non-Democr­ats in the 2010 midterm primaries & general election:

*      BlueDog BlancheLin­coln over progressiv­e Democrat Lt. Governor BillHalter­.

*      Republican­-turned-In­dependent ArlenSpect­er over (barely) progressiv­e Democrat JoeSestak.

*      Republican­-turned-In­dependent LincolnCha­ffee over (not progressiv­e) Democrat FrankCapri­o (which, in turn, is an effective endorsemen­t of the Republican JohnLoughl­in over Democrat DavidCicil­line for the congressio­nal seat Democrat PatrickKen­nedy is retiring from, & all of the other seats up for grab in RhodeIslan­d).

*      Republican­-turned-In­dependent CharlieCri­st over liberal Democrat KendrickMe­ek.

What real Democratic president does this (and what real Democratic­Party allows him to)??

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 it. Citizens 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 participat­ion in this democracy at this most basic level, state primaries, & supercede our choice for his own, is an abuse of the process & a powerful message about Obama's contempt for the People's role in a democratic government­, our voices & our choices.
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