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Loyal Democrats Should be Saying "Ich Bin Ein Progressive" or November Will be a Rout, as Florida Showed Us

By Rob Kall:OpEdNews

What's a progressive to do? There's a growing sense of panic that progressives are going to sit this one out.

The Florida primary, this week, proved that the fear is based on a reality even worse than what Democrats imagined. Though there are more 750,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans in Florida, the turnout in this weeks primary yielded about 900,000 Democrats and 1.25 million Republicans. I don't think you can attribute that massive no-show situation to progressives petulantly staying home or voting third party. No, there are a whole lot of Democrats who are disappointed, pissed, outraged or who have just given up on Obama and his can't-do congressional enablers.

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Progressives in particular have good reason to be beyond furious with Obama appointee @%&*s (expletive replaced) like Rahm Emanuel and Robert Gibbs, who have shown the hostility the White House truly feels for progressives. We have been stabbed in the back, kicked out the door and spit upon by the White House, as well as lied to, and deceived.

The fact is, the elected Democrats in congress failed to show up for the past four years and failed to embrace the incredible power they were given. That was a betrayal of the confidence the voters placed in them. Nancy Pelosi was kept as majority leader even though she failed to prosecute real criminals. Eric Holder was appointed Attorney General and then did next to nothing to pursue justice, except to ratchet up the attack on truth-telling whistle blowers. Worse, he kept on the worst of the Karl Rove appointed federal attorneys-- ones who went after innocent victims like Don Siegelman and Cyril Wecht and hundreds of others.

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Link: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Loyal-Democrats-Should-be-by-Rob-Kall-100827-849.html

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Good article by Rob Kall over at OpEdNews....worth a read.