Oh so true
Not that it makes a lick of difference, power will do what power wants to do, but its a nice cozy notion that such things as the “left” and “right” mean anything at all…
This administration’s agenda has suffered because of the compromises made by the president and his aides with Wall Street and Republicans on Capital Hill – especially during the first stimulus fight but also during the bank reform fight. That has harmed people in the United States, just as the administration’s choices with regard to Afghanistan have harmed some of the poorest and most disregarded people in the world.
If Obama and Robert Gibbs are feeling pressure from their left flank, if they are bothered enough to be griping and grumbling about it, that’s good for the left, for America, for the world – and, ultimately, for an Obama administration that needs to take the left as seriously as it does the right.</em>
