Happy anniversary, President Obama. Get your shit together NOW.

[chimpymustgo]

It's been a year now since that great and glorious day of your inauguration. And your big present today? A smack in the face and a kick in the ass. You've earned it.

Sen-Elect Scott Brown on NBC's Today Show summed it up: People are ANGRY. This vote was not about YOU - most people still like you. But people are sending you a message about YOUR GOVERNMENT: too many promises are un-kept or unfulfilled. There's been NO transparency, but plenty of backroom deals with BANKSTERS and FAT CAT LOBBYISTS AND CORPORATISTS. Quite simply, the government is NOT solving the myriad problems facing people in this country - those things we held so much hope of you addressing one year ago.

Obama, take heed and listen to people like Brown - and people like US - your base: WE ARE SAYING THE SAME THING. You promised to help SOLVE PROBLEMS. END BUSINESS AS USUAL. People still like you and hang on to a vestige of hope that you can and will DO THE RIGHT THING. But seriously, this first year has been a case study in how to squander unprecedented goodwill and fuck up your agenda by doing BUSINESS AS USUAL.

You tried it the old way. See what it got you? It's time to kick that shit to the curb. Kick Rahm to curb. And Summers and Geithner and Lieberman and Nelson and Landrieu and Lincoln and Snowe. Kick the FAT CATS to the curb. Kick your own cautious, compromising, capitulating ways to the curb.

LISTEN TO US. BE BOLD. FIGHT for the PEOPLE AND YOU WILL WIN.

We will all win.

Starting NOW.

[Dinger]

1. Kick & Rec #5

You are right.

[HughBeaumont]

2. A good move would be to roll back the Bewsh/Reagan tax cuts and start Iraq withdraw NOW.

These two things alone are costing us billions. Can't wait until the end of the year on these.

[tekisui]

3. THe pukes and teabaggers taste blood in the water.

Coakley's defeat is going to make them nastier and more brazen.

It is time for strong, decisive leadership. It is time to kick ass. Fuck the pukes.

[chimpymustgo]

6. It is time for BOLD LEADERSHIP. It is time to KICK ASS. It's what the people WANT!

[bdamomma]

9. exactly, I think the Massachusetts people sent a big message

to DC. Like wake the fuck up!!!

[tekisui]

10. But, will they hear?

[bdamomma]

11. they should, this should make them listen 2010 is going to be

a very interesting year as far as those mid term elections, but why put repigs in charge when they got us into this mess.

[peace frog]

4. Great message, however

it will be filtered through Rahm's distorted, broken window. Think Obama will see the real message? Not me.

[dkf]

5. What is sad is we could be screaming this til the cows come home but they only listen when

Morons like Brown tell them.

It's all Rahms fault. Or so I hope.

[Chulanowa]

7. So how exactly is he to kick all those people to the curb?

Well, Rahm and Summers and Geithner okay. But last I heard, the president can't just go kicking out Senators and congresspeople, y'know?

Rather than shaking your fist on a message board, trying to rack up pats on the back, why not go shake your fist at the white house? He can't hear you here, buddy.

[chimpymustgo]

8. Kick LIEberman OFF his Senate committee chairs.

And hey, meet me at the White House.

[Chulanowa]

13. Obama can't do that. Might want to talk to some Senators though.

And why would I cross the continent? I'm not the one who expected Obama to fix thirty years' worth of problems in less than one year. I also recognize that your complaints are best directed at the legislature rather than Obama.

It would seem that some Democrats got a little too used to the imperial presidency? :shrug:

[GumboYaYa]

12. Excellent post

[stray cat]

14. I hope DU is not where are president comes for information

[chimpymustgo]

15. He'd do better listening to US than Rahm and Summers.

He needs to get out of the beltway bubble. It's the ecomony, stupid. JOBS. CHANGE.

[Vidar]

16. K&R.

[bluethruandthru]

17. Obama needs to take advantage of his personal popularity

right now and start working for REAL change. He sold us a bill of goods in his campaign. I don't know whether or not he believed what he was saying...but he certainly hasn't lived up to the promises of his speeches.
If he was just mouthing nice words..then we're screwed and there's nothing we can do. If however, he really wants to be an agent of change...he does need to get rid of the idiots he's surrounded himself with and start listening to those who elected him...not just his inside the beltway buddies who only believe the crap they hear at DC cocktail parties. This is where the DC media (including Tweety), most politicians, lobbyists, etc. get their opinions...they all listen to each other, pat each other on the back and tell themselves that the yahoos outside the beltway don't have a good grasp of the issues.

[C_Lawyer09]

19. Obama needs to shift gears our of personal popularity mode

and get down in the trenches and lead and fight. His conciliatory methods are not providing results, nor is his about face on promises of transparency that have yet to be realized.

[C_Lawyer09]

18. If I was taking a Sociology class

Obama's first year would prompt me to do a case study on executive branch governance methods, something relative too MBA faction versus Attorneys. Unfortunately perception equals reality. Just as unfortunately, perception is often reality. The one thing that pisses me off is the echo chamber repetition of platitudes about transparency. I guess if you are a good orator, you also need to match it with political courage and effectiveness. I'm not Obama bashing, but there damn sure have been some big missed opportunities. To draw an analogy, right or wrong, after the Carter Presidency, and Reagan election, the American electorate percieved change and leadership.

[TexasObserver]

20. Recommend. Here's hoping he doesn't blow this off.

I'm really concerned about whether he gets it. His penchant for siding with big business and for maligning his own voters who have commitment to Democratic ideals has been very, very disappointing.

If he doesn't revise his approach immediately, he's going to dig a hole too deep to get out of by this fall. He's hurting the party's prospects by failing to show more leadership on key issues.

[chimpymustgo]

21. "He's hurting the party's prospects by failing to show more leadership on key issues."

Lead or get out of the way (and don't run for re-election). There's too much important stuff we have to get DONE.