Byronius Dangerosity Stuffage - Keep Whining All The Way To Teabaggerstan.

Lots of progressives sat on their hands in 2010, EXCEPT IN CALIFORNIA, where I live, and where stuff's getting better all the time.

So here we are, reaping the benefits of that poutrage, and DU is full of "Obama's A Traitor!" BULLSHIT today, and I'm just amazed.

You gave him less tools in 2010, and now you're bitching that he didn't do a better job? Good god. We suck.

Randi Rhodes went through everything yesterday, and was proud of Obama for what he was able to accomplish. Talking Points Memo had a succinct echo of her logic --

TPM

"Let me get this straight. The President kept revenues on the table, did not touch the sunset provisions in the Bush tax cuts, ensured that military cuts keep the GOP honest, protected Medicare by adding in only provider cuts in the trigger, made the reduction apparently enough to stave off a debt downgrade, got the debt ceiling raised, wounded Boehner by demonstrating to the world that he is controlled by the Tea Party caucus, took out the requirement that a BBA be passed and sent to the states and got the extension through 2012? What exactly is wrong with this deal?"

Things are tough all over, but a lot of people seem to be panicking, and the accusations that Obama is a traitor are OVER THE GODDAMED TOP, and completely false.

GET A GRIP.

The most powerful newspaper editor in 1920's Germany was a progressive who spent all his energy savaging the fledgling Weimar Democrats for being weak and unable to fully marginalize the fascists and communists. He didn't bother with commenting on the fascists and communists; just viscerally accused the liberals of being traitorous and weak.

He and his entire family were among the first to be carted off to the concentration camps, WHERE THEY ALL DIED.

GET A GRIP.