Treat the online undermining of Obama as you would from any teabagger...
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...or any
real Democrat who has had it with the DLC-contro
lled Democratic Party.
The TeaParty is an effective nemesis for Obama & the DLC-contro
lled (corporate
,
neoliberal) Democratic
Party -- The TeaParty is a paper tiger, this is all kabuki theater, and that's why Axelrod is going after the two candidates farthest to the left (Romney and Huntsman).
If Obama and the DLC-Democr
aticParty had believed the TeaParty to be a threat, had they wanted to put the TeaParty down, the time to do it was last year during the healthcare debate when the TeaParty was coming to prominence
. When Democratic members of Congress were cancelling TownHalls because of the escalating threats of violence by gvn-toting teabaggers
, disrupting Americans' long-honor
ed traditions of peaceful debate in the public square.
Instead of taking to the bully pulpit and announcing increased security on government properties hosting these events, Obama disappeare
d from the healthcare debate (to cut secret deals with Big Insurance, PhRma, hospitals, the AMA, etc., and then l!e about it) as the TeaParty grew & bullied at TownHalls.
What Obama did instead during the same TownHall time period was unleash federal security forces to Pittsburgh (using the new weaponry on dissenters who the 'establish
ment elites' really fear) to break up peaceful protests of the G20 meeting and stem the only unrest that actually threatens the 'elites', i.e., the American people taking back their government
.
Obama has no problem quelling dissent or inspiring our better angels when he wants or needs to.Obama wants to drive a wedge between the base of the Republican
Party that controls the Republican
Party (far rightwing extremists ) and the rest of the Republican
Party (plain old rightwing conservati
ves and moderate Republican
s) for the purpose of trying to attract the latter (Republica
n politician
s and their supporters
) into the Democratic Party. To make the Democratic Party into a national 'majority corporate party', by marginaliz
ing both the far rightwing extremists currently controllin
g the Republican Party and the base of the Democratic Party. In order "to govern, from the center, for 100 years".
The Tea Party serves this end in several ways. Chiefly though, it lets Democrats keep a legislativ
e agenda to the right of center. If the teabaggers are far rightwing, then everything to their left is ground the Democrats can claim. And that's a lot of corporate-
money ground.
Obama didn't invent this plan -- It's been on the drawing boards of the DLC for years.
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