Best Rant I've Read in a LONG Time!

Well worth the read! http://www.stonekettle.com/2011/03/america-you-keeping-using-that-word.html

Hillary got over it and so should you

Nearly two years after the inauguration of Barack Obama, die hard Hillary Clinton supporters persist in their ridiculous and laughable campaigns to discredit our democratically elected president. I'm not really clear as to their ultimate agenda unless the goal is to ensure future losses within the Democratic Party and the ultimate transfer of Congress and the White House to the Rethuglicans. The more rabid crazies point frantically to the "promises that Obama hasn't kept" as proof of his perfidy http://www.newser.com/story/108376/promises-that-obamas-apparently-forgotten.html . This is a bit like telling a mountaineer who has just scaled the world's three tallest peaks that she is a failure for not planting the flag atop Mt. Dora, Florida (elev 144 ft).

Let's now look at the perspective of Frank Schaeffer, a self-proclaimed survivor of an evangelical and fundamentalist childhood http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/obamas-lefty-critics-owe-_b_802911.html . To quote Mr. Schaeffer, "I'm beginning to think that some people on the Left of the left [...] have such an ego claim to having been smarter than President Obama that they really would rather the news stay bad to prove them right." Sounds a bit like those asshole Rethuglicans who would rather see the country spiral into further economic distress than to admit that President Obama's economic policies are working. To these petulant brats, I say, get over it.

Grow Up Progressive Left

I really can't understand the clearly limited mentality of so-called progressives who are screaming bloody murder that President Obama caved to Republicans in brokering a tax deal that includes components with which most Democrats and the President himself don't agree. If I have to read one more snarky, nasty comment from so-called progressives about the President's "lack of balls" for compromising with the Republicans, I'm going to vomit on a liberal. This is particularly disturbing for me, because I am a liberal - and damn proud to say so. Apparently, some of my progressive liberal friends are actually in agreement with the half-baked, half-term ex-governor of Alaska, The Whore of Babble On, Sarah Palin who also disapproves of the tax compromise and accuses the President of flip-flopping. Did I just enter an alternate reality?

So, let's see: Certain "progressives" would prefer to let everyone lose their tax cuts and let millions lose life-sustaining unemployment benefits just to prevent the idiot Republicans from grabbing their Holy Grail - tax cuts for the already filthy rich. Well, I don't like it either, but I'm not so stupid as to actually think that the Republicans in THIS Congress would ever have allowed any tax cut bill to pass unless their wealthy donors were well taken care of. Forget about the NEW Congress. I prefer not to hurt the poor, the middle-class and the unemployed by depriving them of much needed relief just so we can deprive the very rich of cash they can live easily without.

Compromise and negotiation are the core of effective politics and governance. Thank God we have a President who understands this.