What Progressives Want From Obama's State of the Union Address: Fighting Words

It really doesn't matter what progressives want to hear. They are really pretty irrelevant at this point....

I'm not a republican but an independent who is thoroughly disgusted with the political and media elite.What many in the media are failing to take into account when they slam the republicans is that they were not apart of the legislation created for the last two years as the democrats in power totally disregarded any input what so ever. We ended up with terrible legislation loaded with unintended consequences as it was not properly vetted. Good legislation usually comes from a compromise between liberal and conservatives when they work together. We independents were promised if we gave the power to the democrats that they would work for us, they would reach across the table and take a bipartisan approach, legislation and the process of creating legislation would be transparent, and most importantly there would be an end to fiscal irresponsibility and they would work on reducing the deficit. As soon as the democrats got the majority, most of them became arrogant and went into business for themselves. They treated any of us that dared to try to remind them of what they promised as well as our opposition to the the terrible legislation they were churning out while all but hanging from the rafters to get our voices heard, with thinly veiled contempt and proceeded to call us names and marginalized us in order to silence our opposition. The new reality is that unless these politicians wake up realizing they work for us, that the American people are not stupid and do not need our government telling us what we should have because we are too stupid to know what we want, we will vote every last one of them out regardless of party. We need to vote out all political elites who arrogantly believe they are a privileged class as they sneer at us little people they forgot they work for! We do not have a class system in this country and we will no longer tolerate this bunch of blow hards behaving like aristocracy.

.....government tends not to solve problems, only to rearrange them...........rr

Sunday, January 23, 2011
Imagine....watching Obama and his administrations efforts to grasp reality is akin to watching whirling dervishes howling with rabid wolfs. Imagine a stimulus bill that has been judged an absolute failure by any and all economists not in the pocket of the progressives.

Imagine....a so called health care Bill which will lead to catastrophe health care and financial ruin in America, which is in the process of being repealed by fastidious congressional lawmakers who are not tone deaf, regarding the will of the folks, at last count 57% of American voters cast a disapproving vote for all those not in step with their will, electing lawmakers that will read this abysmal 2,000 plus page bill; written and crafted during the midnight hours under the light of the moon, by lawmakers with a specific agenda who managed to include their specific language and clauses, with not a thought aside from their own ideology.

Imagine...talking tough regarding the shenanigans of Wall Street while looking the other way when witnessing the shenanigans of the likes of Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd who continue their progressive actions and thoughts regarding their adopted playthings, Freddie Mac, Fanny Mae and AIG.

Imagine....words like; obfuscation, obstruction, and prevarication being used by the likes of a righteous David Corn, who in his daily efforts to improve his station in life, has no trouble in his continued efforts to marginalize any and all not in agreement with his and his ilk’s notion of a progressive America, talk about whirling dervishes and howling with rabid wolfs....WFR

So while progressives pitch a fit over the right's alleged inflammatory remarks, they want Obama to start using more "fighting words?" Can you say hypocrites?

Help me understand, Mr. Corn: Progressives first complain that government has failed to act properly, then call for ever more government. I think I'd go the other way

Progressives want him to do to the speaker of the house what he did last year to the SC Justice.

Look at what happened: Three important pieces of legislation got passed in the lame duck session and the approval ratingS for both the president and Congress went UP!!! The majority of Americans will reward a spirit of compromise and getting things done. If the president seeks more of that in his SOTU speech, he will get another bump in the polls. That would put Congressional Repubs in a bind; i.e. if they join Obama, their approval rating will also go up, but NOT with the "no compromise" members of the Tea Party groups. This is going to be an interesting address from a number of perspectives, not the least of which is whether Obama uses it to box Repub's into more moderate behavior. Let's see what happens.

Looks like the furthur Obama moves to the center the more his approval rate goes up. Hmmm...

All I can say about Progressives is "Yech". Progressives doesn't equate to the noun progress. Progress actually means a forward motion or advancement to a higher goal. An advance or a steady improvement. A progressive is a person or person(s) who want so much progress to happen so fast that it is inconceivable for the actual good to work for those around them, i.e. angry left wingers. Of course, no one looks back on history as a critical factor here like I am doing. In Bush's first term, Republicans felt the same way about George as well. Too soft when it came to dealing with the Democrats. Granted he didn't do much, but he was able to ride the war on Iraq into a 2nd term. Obama is doing the same thing. He realized after awhile that even though he professed to go in and change Washington in 4 years, that was not going to happen. Washington will change how you think after you try that and not the other way around. So Obama realizes that even though he's not getting many ideas from the Republicans and only confrontation, for him to have a chance he's going to have to give in somewhere. He pulls off a win-win extending the Bush tax cuts, while being able to extend the unemployment. So it will be interesting to see whether or not Obama stays his course for 2012 or does he give in to those on the far left, frustrate the public some more with Obamacare, etc.? If he's smart, he'll go with the majority.