Progressive Hardball

Obama's timidity is myth -- He's plenty tough when it comes to standing up to the Democratic Party's base.



Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama&Democrats want public health care. The DLC-controlled Democratic party gives lip service to this and all populist issues.



If the Bush years taught us nothing else, it's that anyone can sell anything to Americans, if you're stolid & relentless in your sales pitch & tactics. It's not that Bush&R0ve were geniuses & knew something that nobody else knew; Bush&R0ve were just more ruthless (clumsy & careless many political graybeards would say) in doing what politicians & the parties had gone to great lengths to hide from Americans.



Obama didn't get to be the first black president, vanquish the Clinton machine & the oldest, most experienced politicians in our nation's history (including the Rove machine) by not having mastered these skills. Nor do Democratic politicians (more incumbents than ever, in office longer) not know how to do it. How do you think Democrats managed to keep the impeachment of Bush&Cheney off the table & have us still reelecting them, not marching on Washington with torches&pitchforks?



Obama&Democrats know how to do it -- They don't want to do it.



The trick for them has been to keep the many different populist groups believing that they really do support our issues, but that they're merely inept. And to get us to keep voting for them in spite of their failure to deliver on any of our alleged shared objectives.
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The Pundit Candidate: How Cable News Networks Are 'Being Taken Advantage Of' By Future Candidates

It's not the cable news networks that are "being taken advantage of', but the American people.



RNC attorneys jumped all over executives at MSNBC when Ed Schultz and Chris Matthews were thinking about running for Senate, insisting that they be taken off the air, in spite of the fact that the law requires that they be actual candidates for public office http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/315.htmll).



But the law hasn't stopped Republicans from bullying others into their way of thinking. It's too bad that DNC attorneys aren't as zealous, but then again the DNC is controlled by the DLC (DINOs, Republicans-lite).



Perhaps the solution is to change the law, and prevent all appearing on these cable programs from running for public office in any upcoming election cycle. That would mean that Palin and Gingrich couldn't run for any office in 2010, and offices where the next soonest election is 2012 (presidency/vice-presidency).
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