Late Night: He’s Your President, Not Your Boyfriend

Bill Maher, skating ever closer to the commentary that got him exiled from our televisions, tries to explain how constructive criticism of the President we elected, urging him to BE the President we elected, doesn’t mean we’re breaking up with him.

And Bill also asks, where’s the rational, non-money American political party that reflects the views of a majority of Americans, anyway?

Every time Obama tries to take on a progressive cause, there is a major political party standing in his way — the Democrats.

Then Bill describes the "first party" American needs — not the third party.

Shouldn’t there be one party that unambigously supports cutting the military budget?

A party that is straight-up in favor of gun control, gay marriage, higher taxes on the rich, universal health care, legalizing pot and steep, direct taxing of polluters?

These aren’t radical ideas. A majority of Americans are either for them, or would be if they were properly argued and defended. And what we need is an actual progressive party to represent the millions of Americans who aren’t being served by the Democrats. Because — bottom line — Democrats are the new Republicans.

Almost three-quarters of Americans favor a public, government-run health care option even though they also think they are satisfied with their own health care.

Almost three-quarters of Americans believe sexual orientation should no longer be a barrier to service in America’s armed forces.

About three-quarters of Americans favor legal recognition of same-sex couples, split between those who favor gay marriage and those who favor civil unions.

President Barack Obama can stand at the vanguard of these vast American parades and call himself our leader. Only the dead-end twenty-five percenters — who also still call themselves Republicans and have a favorable view of Dick Cheney — will oppose him.  And they are deluded.

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