I have hope that getting in Obama’s face will make a difference. But, I’m prepared for it to not.

Of all the places in the ProgSphere to go wobbly-knee’d…
Kos place would not have been my bet a year ago.

They know better than to lie back and demand less, or nothing, from their nominee. This is the “hide in the corner” bullshit that got us a feckless Congress and all the shit that slid into the body of law that ChimpCo could want.

Taibbi reiterated this a couple of weeks ago when he said:

I certainly agree that progressives have to figure out a way to solve the “toughness” problem. To date the strategy of Democratic leaders for seeming tough is to bail out and sell out their constituents at the first hint of an accusation that that they lack toughness — see HRC and Kerry and others with regard to the war, etc. They don’t seem to understand that standing their ground and standing up for actual principles is where you get your toughness rep. Or maybe they do and their reasons for selling out are more sinister. Either way I think we need to replace the DLC wing of the Dems with real people with real backbones.

He was talking about Democratic leaders, but he might as well have been referring to anyone who lies down for abdications of principle by their chosen nominee.

Where are their nuts? Do they expect Obama to waltz into the Oval after essentially marginalizing us and say, “OK, let’s see what our Progressive friends need,” absent of some cost? If Obama believes there is a free ride in any one of his potential constituencies, he will exploit it fully. I for one do not want to be one of those constituencies.

Somehow. Somewhere. I have hope that getting in Obama’s face will make a difference. But, I’m prepared for it to not.

G’nite

What a treasure that guy is! IMHO, he is this nation’s top political commentator since Thomas Paine.