How Obama Tried To Sell Out Liberalism In 2011

You say that there's middle ground between being one of Obama's 'most ardent supporters' and "no difference between the two parties.   Where's the middle ground on ending Bush's Obama's tax cuts when Obama offered to make those tax cuts permanent?

Where's the middle ground on air quality standards?  Making regulations for air quality standards, but not enforcing them?

Where's the middle ground for a woman's right to choose?  Keeping Roe vs. Wade legal, but making it impossible for her to actually obtain an abortion?

Where's the middle ground on Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid and veterans' care and SCHIP, etc.?   Emptying out the trust funds to pay bond holders and war profiteers so that there's nothing left for those who paid into into the trust funds?

Where's the middle ground on getting out of Afghanistan and Iraq and Yemen and Libya and Somalia?  Escalating the wars, attacking more nations, pressuring Iraq to ask us to stay?

Where's the middle ground on closing CIA black sites and ending torture and commiting crimes against humanity?  A media blackout, imprisoning journalists who report that it's ongoing, prosecuting whistleblowers?   Prison Ships, Ghost Prisoners and Obama's Interrogation Program?  Ending habeas corpus and a president indefinitely detaining anyone he believes might be thinking about committing a crime, American citizens included, and killing them with no due process, no oversight?

There is no 'middle ground' on most issues.  We're 'middled-out'.   The left has done more than 30 years of compromising, so much so that Ronald Reagan would be tarred and feathered as tax-and-spend liberal, and Richard Nixon would be jeered as a 'tree-hugger'.  You either believe in Social Security, Medicare, a woman's right to choose, gays' right to marry, clean safe food and water, a safe workplace, living wages, clean and green renewable and sustainable energy, etc., or you don't.

Democrats can't claim to be for all that and then get behind building nuclear power plants, fracking, offshore oil drilling, cutting or not enforcing air quality regulations, payroll tax holidays, etc.
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