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Are Liberals Abandoning the President?

Posted on December 5, 2011 at 8:25 pm by Bob Cesca

Gallup’s answer is a big fat nope. The president’s very first job approval rating among liberal Democrats was 83 percent, around the inauguration. Today, he’s at 84 percent, down from 87 percent at the beginning of 2011. This would indicate … Continue reading →

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Is Homeland Security Coordinating the OWS Evictions?

Posted on November 26, 2011 at 4:18 pm by Bob Cesca

NO! They’re not. Angry Black Lady and Karoli provide sufficient debunking of this ridiculous rumor being spread by the histrionic Naomi Wolf (not the Shock Doctrine Naomi, the End of America Naomi) and Michael Moore who each insist the federal … Continue reading →

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'Liberals Are Incapable of Feeling Satisfied'

Posted on November 22, 2011 at 7:01 am by Bob Cesca

Jonathan Chait wrote a brilliant editorial for the New York magazine about liberal dissatisfaction with the president. Other than the headline, it’s impossible to pull a single quote of from the piece (but I’ll try), so you’ll have to take … Continue reading →

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There Was Never a Deal to Kill the Public Option

Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:19 pm by Bob Cesca

Back in 2009, I recall fighting with fellow progressives when they accused the president of cutting a back-room deal to kill the public option. Their sources were unnamed and augmented by a lot of self-fulfilling prophecies that President Obama was … Continue reading →

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The Vanity of Liberal Perfectionism

Posted on October 26, 2011 at 7:23 am by Bob Cesca

Robert Parry wrote a fantastic item about the self-defeating tendencies of the far-left, and the trendy refusal to accept the president’s successes — including the end of the Iraq war. This passage was particularly solid: However, some on the American … Continue reading →

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Smart Accountability and the Far-Left

Posted on October 17, 2011 at 5:37 pm by Bob Cesca

I was reading some of the comments under this post and wanted to clarify an important point. I’m part of the “far-left.” I consider myself quite liberal, with only a couple of exceptions. Anyone who has been reading my stuff … Continue reading →

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This Will Mean Nothing

Posted on October 17, 2011 at 9:23 am by Bob Cesca

President Obama is removing the last of the U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of the year. BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. is abandoning plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq past a year-end withdrawal deadline, The Associated Press … Continue reading →

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George Clooney Speaks the Truth

Posted on October 11, 2011 at 12:44 pm by Bob Cesca

Yeah. This. Exactly this. “I’m disillusioned by the people who are disillusioned by Obama, quite honestly, I am,” [George Clooney] said on ABC News Now’s “Popcorn with Peter Travers” before today’s release of “The Ides of March.”Democrats eat their own. … Continue reading →

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Progressive Racism, Careerism and Delusion

Posted on September 29, 2011 at 6:00 pm by Bob Cesca

Melissa Harris-Perry wrote a fantastic column in The Nation this week in which she makes a perfectly rational argument for the existence of “white progressive racism.” Here’s the quote of the week: President Obama has experienced a swift and steep … Continue reading →

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Ralph Nader is a Careerist Troll

Posted on September 20, 2011 at 7:40 am by Bob Cesca

The attention whore is back and he’s looking for a solid primary challenger to the president, which, as we all know, will be a waste of time and will help the Republicans. But it doesn’t matter as long as Nader … Continue reading →

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