Via Beyond the Chron: Obama’s Progressive Enablers
Obama’s Progressive Enablers
Among the fantasies arising from Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign was that progressives would hold him politically accountable. Even candidate Obama subscribed to this view, as he urged supporters to keep him on track should he detour from the path to Change. But progressives have long given the President a pass. The response to Obama’s State of the Union address shows that many progressives prefer unconditional cheerleading to questioning the President’s plans. For example, SEIU cheered Obama’s “clear call to action to solve our jobs emergency,” ignoring the President’s call for a five-year spending freeze on the very job-creating domestic programs that organized labor strongly supports. Unfortunately, such cheerleading simply enables future progressive betrayals. It also sends a strong message to the White House that progressives view themselves as too weak to firmly back their own agendas.
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Among the fantasies arising from Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign was that progressives would hold him politically accountable. Even candidate Obama subscribed to this view, as he urged supporters to keep him on track should he detour from the path to Change. But progressives have long given the President a pass. The response to Obama’s State of the Union address shows that many progressives prefer unconditional cheerleading to questioning the President’s plans. For example, SEIU cheered Obama’s “clear call to action to solve our jobs emergency,” ignoring the President’s call for a five-year spending freeze on the very job-creating domestic programs that organized labor strongly supports. Unfortunately, such cheerleading simply enables future progressive betrayals. It also sends a strong message to the White House that progressives view themselves as too weak to firmly back their own agendas.
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