Do progressives expect Obama and the Dems to do their bidding?

[Onlooker]

Poll question: Do progressives expect Obama and the Dems to do their bidding?

Where are the progressive organizations? What is their nationwide response to the Tea Party? To the Rand Pauls who want to legalize discrimination, to the Sharron Angles who want to privatize social security, to the Republican leadership that wants to starve and bankrupt the unemployed, to the radical right that tries to recriminalize homosexuality, to the Jan Brewers who want to judge citizenship by race, to the Sarah Palins who want to label all Muslims terrorists, to the corporate sycophants who want to pretend there's no global warming, to the militarists who want to attack Iran and North Korea, to the Wall Street gang that brought about this great recession?

I certainly have my issues with Obama, but ever since Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin stole MLK's dream-speech day, I think I'll redirect my anger at the progressive groups, the one's with the money, organizing skills, and mailing lists to create a front against the Tea Party. They are the ones I looked to, the ones I followed, the ones who got me to make phone calls, go to rallies in NYC and elsewhere, and unite to defeat the Republicans and end the war in Iraq. They need to lead us again, to help us keep the pressure on Washington including the Democrats. We need to fight back against the Tea Party. This is not about being pro- or anti-Obama, it's about fighting the surge of fascism in this country. Obama and the Democrats have largely acted as expected, but it's the progressive groups like MoveOn, the labor unions, civil rights groups, and environmental groups that are the ones who are really failing us. Why aren't they organizing nationwide protests, not for Obama, but against the radical right wing elements that are gaining power in our nation?

[fascisthunter]

1. No, and When we Try to Sit at the Table we get Ignored

so your premise that we "EXPECT" is not only sophist bullshit, it's damn insulting.If ya don't like us posting our opinions on here about the man or our own party, place us on ignore. I'm sick of those who chose to get all bent out of shape because they aren't grown up enough to look at reality rather than live in some fucked up political bubble that has been ruining this country. This behavior is what excuses bad representation... wake up!

[xchrom]

2. Unrec for trying to foist a pig with lipstick as something serious. Nt

[Onlooker]

5. Thank God for Al Sharpton

At least he recognized that there needed to be a progressive response to the anti-American Glenn/Palin rally.

[xchrom]

6. You might try brushing up on you reading comprehension skills.

From what I could make of your incoherence - I'm on your side.

But then I've I've only been a politically active leftist
Since 1968.

[Onlooker]

7. Well, I'm afraid I still don't understand your response ...

... but you convinced me to make my previous comment a little more polite.

[DrDan]

3. absolutely! - I campaigned and contributed so I could rest on my laurels for the next 8 years

and let O and the party carry the load.

[griffi94]

4. i think progressives

expect obama and the other democrats to deliver, or at least honestly try to deliver, on what they campaigned on.
i don't think any progressives are surprised when a southern bluedog conservadem votes like a republican.

[Lilith Velkor]

8. Only if Obama & the Dems expect their votes.

Otherwise, they should keep behaving "as expected," which includes insulting and blaming the DFHs when they get their collective ass handed to them in the mid-term, of course.