Over at DU they are eating their own
“Over at DU they are eating their own”
Even before the election I predicted the following:
-Obama pulls the middle class tax cut because the deficit is too big
-Obama defers all his big spending programs because the deficit is too big.
-the Bush tax cut is temporarily extended because the economy is bad
-pay or play health mandate is deferred because it hits small business employment when unemployment is high
-Obama mismanages the mortgage crisis with foreclosure holidays etc and causes more financial market turmoil
-Obama surrenders on some foreign policy crisis
-Obama continues to fund Iraq as one of the few successes he can preside over
-Obama throws the liberal base some bones on symbolic cultural issues like gays in the military and UN abortion funding
-Democrats in congress fight amongst themselves and with Obama over taxes, war funding, health care, mortgage crisis, foreign policy crisis
So far Obama looks less leftist than even my cynical prediction. With so many wall street democrats on his econ team, not much has been said about helping struggling homeowners with mortgages. And gays in the military appears to be deferred to some future date.
No wonder DU has buyers regret.
The Left always does. Eventually, the purges come, where the unstable, and the possibly competitive are winnowed like chaff by the Party elite. I only wonder when and how, not if. Will Obama crucify them upside down? Enquiring minds want to know exactly how precisely history is about to repeat itself.