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Here’s a Crazy Idea

“I think that everybody that supported one of the Democrats will have an obligation to now — as the President would and has in races that the nominee that he has supported hasn’t one — now support the Democratic nominee,” Gibbs added.

- Press Secretary Robert Gibbs regarding last night’s a quote from a “senior White House official” (*cough*Rahm Emmanuel*cough*) regarding unions of flushing $10 million “down the toilet” by supporting Blanche Lincoln’s challenger, Bill Halter in the Arkansas Democratic primary run-off election.

Here’s a thought that Gibbs–who follows the grand tradition of White House Press Secretaries being smug, boneheaded schmucks that would easily crumble under serious interrogation if the White House press corps wasn’t completely fucking useless–should consider: The unions and self-identified Democrats don’t have to support anybody!  AFL-CIO spokesman Eddie Vale said as much in the following email statement:

“If the White House thinks everyone has obligation to support someone just because they’re a Democrat, they are still really missing the point of last night.”

The White House?  Missing the point?  I’m shocked!  Shocked to my very core!  But liberals have to shoulder some of the blame here.  We’re so anti-conservative that we let any weak-sauce Democrat saunter into office because it’s the lesser of two evils.  And what incentive do Democratic leaders have when they know that the liberal base, as much as we bitch and moan, will eventually fall into line no matter what?

Liberals need to bite the bullet and not vote for Democrats who clearly have no progressive aims in mind.  It’s not a matter of a litmus test.  It’s a matter of supporting your constituents when they take up a liberal cause, as when a majority of Arkansans wanted health care reform and Lincoln voted against it.  But corporations have put such a stranglehold on our politics and this pro-business White House is only happy to help pull the rope tighter.

We can’t avoid voting Democratic in every election and it’s going to become more difficult when there’s the danger of an insane tea-party candidate getting into office.  But remember: we survived–somehow–eight years of George W. Bush.  And as long as we give away our vote to Democrats who take it for granted, we have no chance of stopping this bullshit conservative-lite agenda let along furthering progressive causes.

If the White House truly wanted to stop playing the same old Washington politics, then they would stop supporting the same old Washington politicians.

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