Party Unity My Ass!

I’ve been noticing a lot lately on other blogs that many are coming out of the obamacon stupor. From torture to LGBT to healthcare to transparency to bank bail outs to the environment. Obama’s total reversal on many of his campaign promises have left many feeling betrayed. If you read almost any blog you use to visit prior to the purge of liberals during the primaries of 2008 and the split of the Democratic Party you will find many posters who are making the same arguments against Obama that we have been making for well over a year. Now, this is not to say that there aren’t any true Obama believers out there, but there are just as many questioning Obama who are angry and frustrated with the man they helped get elected who now turns his back on them.

For instance, take this article written by Gene Lyons at Salon:

Sickly talk about fixing healthcare

President Barack Obama was elected with perhaps the best chance in a generation to reform America’s unjust and grotesquely inefficient healthcare system. To do so, however, he’ll have to conquer not only entrenched special interests like the insurance and pharmaceutical industries and the American Medical Association but also his own sentimental rhetoric about bipartisanship.

According to Washington Post columnist David Broder, “The president has told visitors that he would rather have 70 votes in the Senate for a bill that gives him 85 percent of what he wants rather than a 100 percent satisfactory bill that passes 52 to 48.” That kind of talk gets a certain kind of Beltway pundit purring like a housecat on a windowsill.

It’s a mistake, anyway. As the source for this heartwarming anecdote was evidently Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, who recently dispatched a peevish Twitter message complaining about Obama’s “sightseeing” while visiting France to commemorate D-Day, perhaps it needn’t be taken too seriously.

The article by Gene Lyons wasn’t even that hard hitting, if you read the entire article you will see he even makes some excuses for Obama, but the responses to this article warms the cockles of my little PUMA heart:

Boycott BarakObama.com
For those of us that receive e-mail from BarakObama.com and want to get the attention of the Whitehouse on healthcare, war, gay rights, kissing the GOP’s ass etc, we should all “unsubscribe”. A few million goodbye’s should get the presidents attention and tell him to grow a pair.

Obama and his “bi-partisan” horseshit
According to Washington Post columnist David Broder, “The president has told visitors that he would rather have 70 votes in the Senate for a bill that gives him 85 percent of what he wants rather than a 100 percent satisfactory bill that passes 52 to 48.”
This is exactly what’s wrong with Obama.

Thank you, commenters
Thanks to those who’ve commented so accurately regarding Obama’s fatal weakness and cowardice.

If I never hear the word “bi-partisan” again, I will die happy

Obama isn’t talking about fixing healthcare…
…he’s talking about creating the appearance of fixing healthcare.

Fuck Obama. He will NOT enact health care reform that improves the quality of and access to health care for Americans or that produces improved care for lower cost. He has no intention of doing what must be done; he’s either too spineless to offend the powers that be or too beholden to them, or both. His not very eloquent double talk is a cover for who he really is: a mediocrity, a hack, a self-serving punk with visions of grandiosity. His very insistence on getting broad support over encouraging legislation that will actually solve our problems is what will defeat his true goal: to be remembered as a great President.

He will either be forgotten as one more in a line of nonentities, or vilified for his great failure to enact real change at the historical period where there was such real change was actually a possibility.

I plan on enjoying every single moment of this. I am not a mean person, a vindictive person, or even a person who needs to be right all the time. But this is just too good to not watch!