Left and right finally have discovered a common foe. Too bad for the country that his name is Obama.

[pampango]

"Overreaching leaves Obama with few friends" - Kathleen Parker (Washington Post)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/18/AR2009121802142.html?nav=hcmoduletmv

"Lefties hate it because there's no public option and no Medicare buy-in for those 55 and over. Righties hate it because requiring that Americans buy private insurance or face penalties means taxpayers will have to hand over more of their hard-earned dollars (assuming they have a job) to the government."

"The rabble from Democrats must be deeply rousing for Republicans exhausted by their own circular firing squad, as they watch the left collapse on itself like an imploding black hole. Republicans now need only get out of the way as leaders on the left are forming their own death panels to urge euthanizing the Senate health bill."

"Most politicians suffer some degree of grandiosity, or else they'd never run for office. But Obama's is of a higher order, in part owing to a worshipful world (see Berlin) and a confluence of urgent events. Cutting the man some slack, no one could pull off what he has attempted to manage -- two wars, a crashing global economy, climate change, health care, energy and unemployment. The scope of such challenges is what prompted man once upon a time to invent deities."

"Thus, the man who was going to remain above the political fray has revealed himself as pluperfectly political, ready to settle for the very kind of mandate (without the public option) that he opposed as a candidate challenging Hillary Clinton. Rather than inspiring confidence, he has inspired a groundswell of disapproval and a populist uprising that may allow Republicans to clean House come November.

In the meantime, left and right finally have discovered a common foe. Too bad for the country that his name is Obama."

[Tesha]

1. Obama didn't have to do everything in his power to piss-off the left...

but early on, he, Rahm, and others made the cynical
calculation that we were disposable (on *EVERY* issue,
not just health care. Gays, women, torture, Bush Admin-
istration investigations, Cabinet appointments, the war,
the economy...).

Tesha

[Dinger]

2. Sad But True (nt)

[Chan790]

4. And we in turn...

have made the cynical calculation that they're disposable in 2012 if they don't shape up and move left.

That's my deadline, they have until Election Day 2012 to fix the messes they've been making at an ever faster rate...or else I'm staying home because I just don't care anymore about the Obama crap. He's lost me, if he wants my support now...he's got to earn it.

[madrchsod]

5. it is the "who else are they going to vote for" bullshit

yes we are disposable and they won`t need us the next time.

[Echo In Light]

3. Tired of the weak attempt to align us Lefties w/teabagger mentality