Watching Robert Gibbs go
after the Professional Left, and the Professional Left firing back,
certainly has been amusing.
But
I'll have to stand up for Gibbs, at least in his first heart-felt
salvo.
Gibbs made two related points. First, that the
Professional Left is "crazy" to attack Obama, and second, that the
Professional Left is unrealistic as to what could be accomplished
presently.
Was he wrong? I don't think so. Obama has accomplished
as much as he could given that the country leans heavily conservative.
Does
anyone doubt that if Obama could have passed a public option as part of
Obamacare that he would have done so? In fact, does anyone doubt that
if Obama could wave a magic wand and institute a single-payer system
overnight, that Obama would do so?
There is a reality in this
country to which the Professional Left, cloistered in its epistemically
closed universe, is oblivious: Most people do not agree with the
Professional Left.
The 2008 election was many things, but it was
not an endorsement of a progressive agenda. What didn't you understand
about New Jersey, Virginia, Massachusetts and Missouri?
Obama has
accomplished as much as he could for you. He has put in place laws
which will enable him to accomplish through regulation that which he
could not accomplish through legislation. Obama is playing the long
game, and you are short-sighted.
Even what the Professional Left
considers too little, too late, has provoked a strong backlash which
threatens Democratic Party control and the completion of Obama's agenda.
Obama
is doing the best he can to advance the Professional Left's agenda
against the will of the American people. Give the guy a break.
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