If Obama does do a deal with the 'Pugs, he needs to withdraw from the re-election campaign [View All]

Agreeing to what they want, even half of what they want(and we know it'll be way more than half)will mean he can never do anything progressive again. Progressive things require financial resources. You can't do social change AND austerity. And clearly it means that all "HOPE" for the poor will be gone. A Supreme Court nomination or two(which he wouldn't get to make anyway)can't make up for letting SS or Medicare be tampered with.

Our only chance in 2012 will be with a nominee who realizes that our party HAS to fight for everyone the 'Pugs attack: labor, the poor, the dispossessed, the Rainbow, and everyone who's closer to the streets than the suites.

A centrist can't do that. A right-of-centrist especially can't.

We need to nominate a DEMOCRAT in 2012.

Barack Obama can never be a Democrat again if he works out a deal with the forces of evil in the House. There simply aren't any issues that will remain that could outweigh the destruction of the rest of the New Deal. We don't have to settle for a pro-choice Republican from the mid 1970's.