Sirota: Progressives Need to Push the White House, Not Take Orders From a Hack Like Rahm Emanuel

[Turborama]

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http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2010/02/rahm_emanuel_on_defensive_over.html">Rahm Emanuel on defensive over "retarded" comment; met with Timothy Shriver, Special Olympics Chairman

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[polichick]

1. Sirota's right that progressive groups should keeping pushing. k&r

[shrdlu]

2. Absolutely...especially since we have democrats(?) such as...

...Blanche Lincoln and Evan Bayh supposedly on our side. Lincoln actually asked Obama
today how to push back against progresive Democrats in the party...With friends like this?

[kbuster]

3. Amen.

I'm not above attacking a Democrat who isn't going to work with us. Lesser of two evils is a flawed compromise. We must work to get a public option for all Americans, to repeal DADT for the dignity of our friends -- and no friendlier-than-Bush president can make progressives abandon that goal.

[emilyg]

4. Welcome to DU.

[bvar22]

5. Sirota much too kind to Rahm.

"Hack" is mild.

[defendandprotect]

6. The very people we're opposing . . .

and their AGENDA -- are inside the White House -- !!

By Obama's invitation --- !!!

If that AGENDA doesn't change -- then it will be the SAME AGENDA up for relection

in 2012!!! Are we going to vote for that AGENDA now that we know about it?

An AGENDA which is anti-what the Democratic Party once stood for pre-the corrupting of it

with corporate money/influence?

This AGENDA is set up to fight against unions, labor, feminists, liberals, enviromentalists,

anti-war groups -- and set up to support corporate interests!!


Meanwhile . . .

Amazingly, I noted the other day that Mueller is still the FBI director????? Wow?

No time to change such an important position!!???

[hansont]

7. He hits the nail on the head