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Breakfast Scramble (Wednesday)

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
Did you know this was liberal commentary day?  Well neither did I but here it goes anyhow.

First up, Peter Daou [1]:

With each passing day, I’m beginning to realize that the crux of the problem for Obama is a handful of prominent progressive bloggers, among them Glenn Greenwald, John Aravosis, Digby, Marcy Wheeler and Jane Hamsher. (Jane, who has been a friend for years, has become an increasingly controversial figure and I won’t use this post to litigate the claims for or against her.)

Virtually all the liberal bloggers who have taken a critical stance toward the administration have one thing in common: they place principle above party. Their complaints are exactly the same complaints they lodged against the Bush administration. Contrary to the straw man posed by Obama supporters, they aren’t complaining about pie in the sky wishes but about tangible acts and omissions, from Gitmo to Afghanistan to the environment to gay rights to secrecy and executive power.

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As president, Obama has done much good and has achieved a number of impressive legislative victories. He is a smart, thoughtful and disciplined man. He has a wonderful family. His staff (many of whom I’ve worked with in past campaigns) are good and decent people trying to improve their country and working tirelessly under extreme stress. But that doesn’t mean progressives should set aside the things they’ve fought for their entire adult life. It doesn’t mean they should stay silent if they think the White House is undermining the progressive cause.

Mr. Daou has two problems.  One, Mr. Daou is of the opinion that only liberals matter.  That it is duty of Dumbo, b/k/a Barack Obama to simply impose the liberal agenda on the country without regard to the consent of the governed.

Two, for reasons which defy both evidence and common sense, Mr. Daou seems to think that Dumbo has above room temperature intelligence.  Memo to Mr. Daou, the country belongs to the American People, and not to you self-anointed liberal elites, and we taking our country back.

Next the only job Dumbo is trying to save, Jane Hamsher, Fire Dog Lake [2]:

But now that he’s not running, and it’s someone else’s butt on the line, he’s turning the Democratic base into Martha Coakley and setting them up for the blame for any electoral failure in fall.  The people who showed up to vote for him in 2008 “just weren’t serious” if they “now want to take their ball and go home.”

There is no internal consistency to the narrative that the “professional left” is suppressing turnout by criticizing Obama, but Obama is not suppressing turnout when he scolds the voters who aren’t clapping loudly enough for his achievements.  But few in the professional punditocracy find their way to that obvious conclusion.

This isn’t about GOTV. It’s about setting up a fall guy for November. The headline should really read:

Obama Distances Himself From Democratic Voters

Democratic voters are all Martha Coakley now.  And if shielding Obama from blame makes matters worse for those who are actually running in November?  Well, that’s the price of protecting the

If you can recall back a bit more than two years ago,  Dumbo, was not promising blood, sweat, toil and tears, either his or your.  Rather, Dumbo was going to simply lay his healing palms on the oceans and they would somehow stop rising.   Now that Dumbo agenda is deep in his own poop, he now moans that his base is not working hard enough.   For the base it off to the salt mines and for Dumbo, it another round of golf.   It is a tough game, but somebody has to play.  It seems O.J. Simpson can no longer book a tee time.

Last and least, Joe Biden, Hill [3]L

Liberals need to “buck up” in preparation for November’s elections, Vice President Joe Biden said Monday night.

Now back to our regular blogging.

Ann Coulter addresses Homocon, from Megan Carpentier TPM [4]:

In one of a series of racially insensitive remarks that pervaded her speech, Coulter added, “Marriage is not a civil right. You’re not black.” It was part of a larger argument on which she later elaborated, telling the crowd that the 14th Amendment only applies to African-Americans and that it does not, in fact, apply to women, LGBT people or other minorities.

It might be too much to ask of Ms Carpentier, but the Fourteenth Amendment was intended to prevent discrimination based on race.    The Fourteenth did not prevent discrimination based on sex.  Hence the Nineteenth Amendment was needed to extend the right to vote to women.

Yet for some strange reason, the pro-sodomy crowd thinks to think while that Fourteenth dose not preclude discrimination based no sex, it somehow precluded discrimination based on the preferred sex of the sexual partner.    If sexual preference is to enshrined into the Constitution, as what point dose it stop?