When W was in office, we always knew something of what was going on backstage; even when a security-paranoid like Nixon was in office; the West Wing always leaks like a sieve, however many “plumbers” you hire.
You’re right, of course. Which is why, under the Montoya administration, the Whitehouse would be Wonkafied–Nobody ever goes in, nobody ever comes out. My staff would consist entirely of midget green-haired guidos with no interest in the outside world and a craving only for crafting peculiarly palatable policies and lovingly legitemate legislation.
Now any one of you want to tell me where or when I said Obama is a progressive? I wasn’t aware that in order to kill a movement you had to be part of it. Truly dim individuals I’m dealing with here.
And how, exactly, has Obama killed it? By lulling it into complacency? No, that ain’t happening. By discrediting it in the public mind? Not that either.
If Obama is killing the progressive movement he must be doing it in secret. And, since I don’t give a crap about the progressive movement, if Obama wants to kill it, that’s fine by me. If Obama manages to marginalize the goddamn dirty hippies farther than they’re already marginalized, hey, bonus feature.
Actually I would pose that it’s precisely when you got the guys most concerned with keeping control, that the leaks are more notable. Restrict flow at one end, increase the pressure at other possible fail points.
So, your evidence that Obama killed progressiveism is that there are no crowd-pleasing progressive activists?
Were there lots of them out there before Obama was elected? I can’t think of a single one. In order for Obama to kill the progressive movement, first you have to have a living progressive movement for him to kill.