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		<title>By: milbrat</title>
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		<description>While I agree that Barrack Obama, AKA Barry Soetoro, has placed several progressives in positions of power in his administration; they are not &quot;Obama&#039;s Progressives&quot;. They are not his dogs; rather he is theirs: And they are about to send him to obedience school!

While I don’t find it the least bit difficult to believe that the progressives are incensed because they believe that the Soetoro Administration is moving too slowly in the transformation of America; my personal opinion is that he is moving much too quickly. He&#039;s in danger of over-reaching, and once again snatching progressive defeat from the jaws of victory. The American people aren&#039;t buying his incremental approach, and neither is the progressive movement. To continue the &#039;dog&#039; analogy: The progressives are completely dissatisfied with his mere piddling within the corners of the room, when they gleefully expected him to pinch a prodigious diarrhea-like crap in the center of the rug!  

I&#039;m not going to cover in depth the myriad of blatantly unconstitutional seizures of power this administration has executed. Anyone paying attention can choose their personal favorite from a &#039;fielder&#039;s choice&#039; of options;

Seizing the mortgage industry, seizing manufacturing companies, deliberately creating unsustainable deficits, firing private company CEO&#039;s, investigating current government employees for not upholding current administration policy during past administrations, planning the nationalization of the nations&#039; health care system, hiring legions of unaccountable and unvetted czars who are actually running cabinet level posts behind the scenes, determining private industry compensation; the list is almost endless. However; for the committed progressive, this list has failed to even begin to scratch the surface of the alteration they envisioned in November.

 The &#039;community organizer&#039; in Barry Soetoro causes him to  believe that he can achieve consensus, incrementally dragging the entire population over to his viewpoint if given enough time. On the other hand; the progressives see this as a jewel beyond price. With their &#039;ends-justifies-the-means&#039; attitude, they don&#039;t particularly care if it IS political suicide to utilize the current House and Senate majorities to shove the entire progressive agenda down the throats of the American People. They also care little for how high we may have to stack the bodies in order to reach the goal. Progressives have never wrung their hands over the victims of any purge. In their minds &quot;The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the One.&quot; (Apologies to Caiaphas, Roddenberry, and &#039;The One&#039;.)

This is what Barry Soetoro is finding out. The progressives aren&#039;t particularly enamored of him. They were intelligent enough to read between the lines and grasp the fullness of his &#039;spread the wealth&#039; vernacular. It is the system he promised that caused them to pursue his election. It was the Trifecta of Republican discontent, the MSM&#039;s anointing of the most beatable conservative possible, and the securing of large sections of all demographics due to the lofty, ephemeral rhetoric he employed during the campaign that has led us to this point.

Soetoro knew what he was attempting as well as the progressives did. The disconnect comes from Soetoro believing the progressives wanted HIM to actually lead after the election. This is not the case. The progressives don&#039;t give a fig for who holds the office. Their fervent desire was for a Lenin, a Stalin, a Mao, or a Chavez. They wanted someone who would immediately move to consolidate power. Once they found out poor Barry didn&#039;t have the &#039;cojones&#039; to pull the trigger on the loaded gun they had handed him, the progressives saw him as weak and already in need of replacement. In their eyes he has already, due to his percieved inaction on several fronts, to have been judged &#039;Ideologically Impure&#039;!

In their mind, Soetoro should have ORDERED both the House and the Senate to produce national health care legislation in accordance with the progressive blueprint: And to produce that legislation within the first thirty days of his administration, Republicans be damned! He should not have waited for Chrysler and GM to go into bankruptcy. He should have seized both companies and turned them over to the UAW immediately! Once he guaranteed Fannie and Freddie&#039;s debt; he should have, without delay, announced that anyone occupying a home backed by one of these two mortgage giants not only would remain in those homes; but that Fannie and Freddie would, within the next sixty days, issue clear titles and deeds of ownership to the people in those homes! Since making all these moves would literally cause conservative talk radio to go apoplectic; that alone would be reason enough to begin shuttering radio stations. In their eyes, the mere voicing of dissenting opinion should have been enough to declare the RNC a &#039;domestic terrorist&#039; organization and begin prosecution under the RICO statutes. Conservative thinking should be declared &#039;thought crime&#039; and treated with &#039;medical confinement&#039; inside a &#039;sanatorium&#039; facility. Corporate CEO&#039;s should be forced, in Congressional Committee Chambers, to publically renounce capitalism as an unconscionable evil infecting society, before surrendering their positions and accumulated wealth to appointed administration bureaucrats.

Instead of publically destroying the Constitution; Barry Soetoro is working around the edges of that document. This is not satisfactory behavior as far as progressives are concerned. I expect them to become even more vocal as they begin to sense this opportunity slipping further through their &#039;collective&#039; fingers (if you&#039;ll pardon the pun).

Their &#039;win-at-all-cost&#039; philosophy, I believe, will soon give way to calls for more direct action. Their viewpoint is much more in synch with a Nancy Pelosi than it is with the incremental style of the current President. Progressives are historically well known for the ousting of the leaders they judge to be to feeble to continue the struggle. For instance, during next Wednesday&#039;s address to the House and Senate, if Barry Soetoro&#039;s commitment to the &#039;public&#039; option in health care legislation is not utterly and irrevokably re-affirmed, and damn the cost, I fully expect there to be a audible cacophony from the progressives.  

Knowing their propensity for direct action, coupled with the intolerance they hold for all who don&#039;t share full commitment to their vision; I wouldn&#039;t be the least bit surprised to find a &#039;coup d&#039;état&#039; to begin brewing in the near future.

One could easily imagine the most radical factions of the progressive left, even now, fantasizing over a situation that would require Congressman Pelosi to assume control of the nation, declare martial law, and to begin, in earnest, the remaking of the US into the Socialist Utopia that is its destiny! As opposed to Soetoro, they&#039;re much more certain of her commitment to the cause. In their view; you would only have to &#039;break&#039; a pair of &#039;eggs&#039; to begin cooking this omelet!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While I agree that Barrack Obama, AKA Barry Soetoro, has placed several progressives in positions of power in his administration; they are not &#8220;Obama&#8217;s Progressives&#8221;. They are not his dogs; rather he is theirs: And they are about to send him to obedience school!</p>
<p>While I don’t find it the least bit difficult to believe that the progressives are incensed because they believe that the Soetoro Administration is moving too slowly in the transformation of America; my personal opinion is that he is moving much too quickly. He&#8217;s in danger of over-reaching, and once again snatching progressive defeat from the jaws of victory. The American people aren&#8217;t buying his incremental approach, and neither is the progressive movement. To continue the &#8216;dog&#8217; analogy: The progressives are completely dissatisfied with his mere piddling within the corners of the room, when they gleefully expected him to pinch a prodigious diarrhea-like crap in the center of the rug!  </p>
<p>I&#8217;m not going to cover in depth the myriad of blatantly unconstitutional seizures of power this administration has executed. Anyone paying attention can choose their personal favorite from a &#8216;fielder&#8217;s choice&#8217; of options;</p>
<p>Seizing the mortgage industry, seizing manufacturing companies, deliberately creating unsustainable deficits, firing private company CEO&#8217;s, investigating current government employees for not upholding current administration policy during past administrations, planning the nationalization of the nations&#8217; health care system, hiring legions of unaccountable and unvetted czars who are actually running cabinet level posts behind the scenes, determining private industry compensation; the list is almost endless. However; for the committed progressive, this list has failed to even begin to scratch the surface of the alteration they envisioned in November.</p>
<p> The &#8216;community organizer&#8217; in Barry Soetoro causes him to  believe that he can achieve consensus, incrementally dragging the entire population over to his viewpoint if given enough time. On the other hand; the progressives see this as a jewel beyond price. With their &#8216;ends-justifies-the-means&#8217; attitude, they don&#8217;t particularly care if it IS political suicide to utilize the current House and Senate majorities to shove the entire progressive agenda down the throats of the American People. They also care little for how high we may have to stack the bodies in order to reach the goal. Progressives have never wrung their hands over the victims of any purge. In their minds &#8220;The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the One.&#8221; (Apologies to Caiaphas, Roddenberry, and &#8216;The One&#8217;.)</p>
<p>This is what Barry Soetoro is finding out. The progressives aren&#8217;t particularly enamored of him. They were intelligent enough to read between the lines and grasp the fullness of his &#8216;spread the wealth&#8217; vernacular. It is the system he promised that caused them to pursue his election. It was the Trifecta of Republican discontent, the MSM&#8217;s anointing of the most beatable conservative possible, and the securing of large sections of all demographics due to the lofty, ephemeral rhetoric he employed during the campaign that has led us to this point.</p>
<p>Soetoro knew what he was attempting as well as the progressives did. The disconnect comes from Soetoro believing the progressives wanted HIM to actually lead after the election. This is not the case. The progressives don&#8217;t give a fig for who holds the office. Their fervent desire was for a Lenin, a Stalin, a Mao, or a Chavez. They wanted someone who would immediately move to consolidate power. Once they found out poor Barry didn&#8217;t have the &#8216;cojones&#8217; to pull the trigger on the loaded gun they had handed him, the progressives saw him as weak and already in need of replacement. In their eyes he has already, due to his percieved inaction on several fronts, to have been judged &#8216;Ideologically Impure&#8217;!</p>
<p>In their mind, Soetoro should have ORDERED both the House and the Senate to produce national health care legislation in accordance with the progressive blueprint: And to produce that legislation within the first thirty days of his administration, Republicans be damned! He should not have waited for Chrysler and GM to go into bankruptcy. He should have seized both companies and turned them over to the UAW immediately! Once he guaranteed Fannie and Freddie&#8217;s debt; he should have, without delay, announced that anyone occupying a home backed by one of these two mortgage giants not only would remain in those homes; but that Fannie and Freddie would, within the next sixty days, issue clear titles and deeds of ownership to the people in those homes! Since making all these moves would literally cause conservative talk radio to go apoplectic; that alone would be reason enough to begin shuttering radio stations. In their eyes, the mere voicing of dissenting opinion should have been enough to declare the RNC a &#8216;domestic terrorist&#8217; organization and begin prosecution under the RICO statutes. Conservative thinking should be declared &#8216;thought crime&#8217; and treated with &#8216;medical confinement&#8217; inside a &#8216;sanatorium&#8217; facility. Corporate CEO&#8217;s should be forced, in Congressional Committee Chambers, to publically renounce capitalism as an unconscionable evil infecting society, before surrendering their positions and accumulated wealth to appointed administration bureaucrats.</p>
<p>Instead of publically destroying the Constitution; Barry Soetoro is working around the edges of that document. This is not satisfactory behavior as far as progressives are concerned. I expect them to become even more vocal as they begin to sense this opportunity slipping further through their &#8216;collective&#8217; fingers (if you&#8217;ll pardon the pun).</p>
<p>Their &#8216;win-at-all-cost&#8217; philosophy, I believe, will soon give way to calls for more direct action. Their viewpoint is much more in synch with a Nancy Pelosi than it is with the incremental style of the current President. Progressives are historically well known for the ousting of the leaders they judge to be to feeble to continue the struggle. For instance, during next Wednesday&#8217;s address to the House and Senate, if Barry Soetoro&#8217;s commitment to the &#8216;public&#8217; option in health care legislation is not utterly and irrevokably re-affirmed, and damn the cost, I fully expect there to be a audible cacophony from the progressives.  </p>
<p>Knowing their propensity for direct action, coupled with the intolerance they hold for all who don&#8217;t share full commitment to their vision; I wouldn&#8217;t be the least bit surprised to find a &#8216;coup d&#8217;état&#8217; to begin brewing in the near future.</p>
<p>One could easily imagine the most radical factions of the progressive left, even now, fantasizing over a situation that would require Congressman Pelosi to assume control of the nation, declare martial law, and to begin, in earnest, the remaking of the US into the Socialist Utopia that is its destiny! As opposed to Soetoro, they&#8217;re much more certain of her commitment to the cause. In their view; you would only have to &#8216;break&#8217; a pair of &#8216;eggs&#8217; to begin cooking this omelet!</p>
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