Cenk Uygur: The Unbearable Weakness of Democratic Being

A Rasmussen poll now has the Republican Party as more trusted on the health care issue than Democrats. That's insanity. The Republicans have killed all efforts at health care reform before, they're killing it as we speak and they almost exclusively represent the interests of the private insurance companies who want to continue to jack up our rates (private insurance premiums have gone up 119% in the last ten years).

So, how are they winning? Because the Democrats brought a scalpel to a gun fight. The Republicans have attacked and attacked and attacked. Meanwhile, what has been the Democratic response? They're reaching out in a spirit of bipartisanship. Why?

Someone says they're going to bite your head off and will almost all vote against you, what is your purpose in continuing to reach out to them? They say they will under no circumstances vote for real health care reform with a public option, which you have said many times before is essential. They are in essence saying the only way they would vote for your bill is if they were positive it sucked. So, why do the Democrats continue to help the Republicans in killing this thing?

It is the unbearable weakness of Democratic being. They cannot find it in their hearts to strongly argue for their own position. To be fair, in this case, the weakness is mainly Obama's. The White House has clearly indicated this weekend that they have already given up on the public option -- and they're still begging the Republicans to work with them. Frankly, it's pathetic.

This continual and monumental weakness has a price. When the other side makes its case and you don't -- you lose. The Republicans never hesitate to make their case, even if they have to lie, cheat and scaremonger to do it. While the Democrats are scared of their own shadow. Obama is playing patty-cakes out there in his town halls. When is the last time he threw a real punch?

Grassley says Obama wants to kill your grandmother. And what's the price for this hideous slander? Obama promises he'll continue to reach out to him. Why? Are you looking for advice on how to kill grandma? The guy just spit in your face. What are you going to do about it?


Read the rest here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/the-unbearable-weakness-o_b_261651.html

...this should be required reading at DU.

Just kidding. I completely agree with the OP. I think there is a serious possibility of Obama being a one term president--just like the last super smart, really, really nice guy: Jimmy Carter.

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"The problem is that the party we voted for isn't the party we got. At some point there has to be a price for not ever delivering on your promises, and worse yet, not really trying very hard. If Obama continues to bring the weak sauce, there has to come a point when we begin to wonder why we elected him as well."

That about sums up how I feel.

I know it doesn't have to be a "psyops conspiracy" because it's been openly the party's function for at least twenty years. Let's be serious, Democratic voters by and large LIKED Obama's "bipartisanship."

During WWII, they called it "collaboration" not "bipartisanship."

every time we give a little bit to the fascists, they ask for more.

And your final sentence is absolutely PERFECT ( depressing as hell but perfect).

As I have posted a couple times recently, I have to agree with Rove that Dems coddle terrorists. They (we) are right now under the thumb of American Terrorists - Hate Radio, Cabal News, the Republicans in Congress, and Big Insurance. And we are doing nothing to fight back. Someone tells Specter that Obamacare will require euthanasia, and Snarlin' Arlen says, "I'll look into it". We are hopeless.

Speak for yourself. I will be attending three town halls this week, and as many as I can make the next. I also have four others coming with me.

I even got a clinic that I attend weekly for treatment to give me a t-shirt and a hat. The doctors face lit up when I asked him his position, and if he had something I could wear.

The REPUKES WIN and WIN and WIN and we Dems RETREAT, RETREAT, and RETREAT some more...!!!

and the Dems can't seem to do it FAST enough!!!

Republicans never lack for ruthlessness; Democrats virtually always do. Still, STILL our side doesn't understand that Americans respect the notion of "strength"; we marshall our logic, as we always do, and forget that sometimes politics is about who smacks who in the mouth (rhetorically) the hardest. I'd have thought a Chicago pol would have understood this. No such luck.

Why is it that whenever a sentence starts with those words my bullshit meter goes way up into the red?

back and let the tide turn against public option (which means he either did not really want it himself or he didn't care one way or the other) while he diddy bops around with his family. As Arianna said on Keith tonight, he cannot rally all that league of supporters out to back him because they do not know what he wants.