Blue states are rapidly becoming Whine Country. Everyone yearning for their pet peeve or social agenda item to be passed, or those who have felt repressed under eight years with the village idiot running the country now utter bon mots like "disappointed" or "betrayed" when commenting on our centrist president, Mr. Obama.
As I pointed out last week in Bippity Boppity Barack over at the Huffington Post:
"Disappointed and disaffected Democrats believe that the President of the United States should be a cross between the fairy godmother of Cinderella, and Bruce Willis from the Die Hard pictures."
You want Mr. Obama to take his magic wand and waive away more than 20 years of GOP rule and missteps, with a good Hollywood-style ass-kicking of John Boehner and Michael Steele for good measure.
That says worlds more about your reality curve than it does about the White House or the President.
All governance is compromise. Even the 'evil' GOP did not get 100% of what it wanted when it was helping corporations along to record profits and disassembling whatever fiscal protections or social justice measures that it could along the way.
Would we have a real shot at changing health care at all had Mr. Obama not put it on the national agenda? No. Would there be another 10 million or so unemployed on top of the 24 million already job hunting had John McCain been dumb enough to let the big three auto makers go down? How much cozier would the GOP have been with Wall Street Bankers who have been lining their pockets for decades?
Instead of lining up on the 10 yard line and pushing through demand for a public option, instead of shoving back on the special interests and lobbyists who work with the GOP and the Blue Dog dems to stop change and reform, you've been pulling out .22s and shooting at each other's feet.
I have met the enemy, boys and girls, and it is us.
If you're not that happy about health care reform, or the speed with which we depart Guantanamo, what exactly have you done to get off your own spotty behind and do something proactive about it?
If you have, great. Maybe you can complain. The other 99% of Liberals who take pot-shots from their own corners of truth and beauty though would do better to do something constructive that helps the process.
Obama told you that change only comes if you play the game.
Play.