Legal Commentary

Time To Blame Progressives

By Big Tent Democrat

"Explaining" President Obama's fall from grace, Time's Michael Scherer finds the Beltway's favorite villain:

[E]ven as Obama aides were aware of a growing disconnect, it didn't seem to worry their boss. Instead, the ambitious legislative goals usually trumped other priorities. Both in the original stimulus package and then in the health care and energy measures, the White House ceded most of its clout to the liberal lions who controlled the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate. That maneuver helped assure passage of reforms, but it also confirmed some of the worst fears about how Washington works.

(Emphasis supplied.) It was those evil "liberal lions'" fault! Yes, the Beltway's predictable rewriting of history in order to blame progressivism is on its way. You think The American Prospect or Matt Yglesias might protest this mendacious account? Me neither. Telling lies about progressivism is always "civil discourse" in the Beltway. Cuz this is always what the Beltway believes:

Most experts from both parties say Obama will have to rebalance his politics in 2011 to be re-elected in '12.

Down with the DFH!

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 02, 2010 (boomark / email).