I going to repost this comment up here since the original thread has dropped down so far and it fits in with Chip's link.
For the record, I don't trust Obama to promote a liberal/progressive agenda and I'm still very angry over his FISA vote. Then again, I was always a reluctant supporter who never believed he was going to help us. I guess my worry is that we might cloud the issues by putting too much focus on Obama and not enough on the rest of the Congresslizards. I certainly think it's valuable and necessary to be pushing a progressive narrative in any event.
I'm also wondering why we aren't organizing some kind of drive to reach Obama directly through the new website. They're actively soliciting suggestions there and I see a lot of people making lists of priorities. Shouldn't we be submitting these through the website?
I don't have the reach with my little blog to generate any significant numbers but I'm thinking the bigger bloggers could organize this easily. It could be something as simple as suggesting that readers cut and paste the lists into the suggestion box. Just a stray thought I posted on today.
I though Weiner's lead (from Chip) was interesting -- apparently, it took about a week for the "dream world" condition he was in after Obama's victory to wear off. Ironic, in light of Krugman, of all people, writing, as did many others, that there was something wrong with people who didn't live in that dream world to begin with. I suppose I was guilty, like all Cassandras, only of "premature skepticism"....
Updated my post with your quote: "The thing about Republicon plans is that they are never designed to actually deliver for the people, but rather to destroy what services already exist and divert funds that could be used to improve them."
And good thought on turning our attention to Congress, Libby!
I think that the Dems have formed two de facto partiesthat operate in opposition, and that the Repub party isn't even in play.
The Eisenhower Republican wing of the Democrats is the DNC with Obama in the middle. The bipartisanship is really conservative Dems and thinking non-neocon Republicans.
The other wing is the party of the progressives and thosewho favor a Constitutional Restoration.
If you think in those terms, it becomes clearer that Progressives ARE the opposition and should organize and create a formal organization by which to promulgate power and give voice to that agenda and those values which are different from that of the party of Obama.
As to Ezra losing the narrative: I don't think anyone has that right. No one is considering the stakeholders who provide 95% of all reimbursed healthcare services and whose profession makes a significant difference in whether patients live, recover, or suffer preventable harm and preventable deaths. The reason you don't even know who these people are is in large part a factor of the media narrative and the discrimination across the political spectrum that ignores and marginalizes them.
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