The Liberal/Progressive Crack-up

It wasn't that long ago that many stories were written about the "crack-up" of the GOP. Today the party identification has switched. Over at The Moderate Voice they've made a list of some of the recent developments that point to trouble for the Dems

A liberal talk show host last night said the REAL reason Lieberman threw a monkey wrench into what seemed to be a health care reform compromise, is that because Lieberman did it for Israel. That’s right. The Jew card was actually played here. This talk show host said Lieberman is Congress’ most famous “Zionist” and that Israel wants to weaken Obama so if Obama could be undercut on this issue and weakened it would weaken his clout in the Middle East. So Lieberman essentially did Tel Aviv’s bidding. (Oh.)

The latest news on cable and broadcast talk is that there are rumblings that some liberal Senators may vote against health care reform. That would pretty much kill health care reform Barack Obama’s political clout for a while.

The anger against Barack Obama and his leadership/lack of leadership (circle the one that reflects your own political bias) grows among Democrats.

Former DNC Chair Howard Dean, never an Obama favorite, has urged Democrats to kill the bill and start over. Dean’s impact on some in the party’s progressive wing is somewhat akin to the impact of Rush Limbaugh’s impact on the GOP’s conservative wing: some will now pick up his battle cry. OR some who secretly thought as much will now say it. Dean calls this health care reform bill a bigger bailout for the insurance industry than to AIG.

A new charge from some in his party’s left is that the White House keeps expecting concession from progressives but not from Lieberman and centrists. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs insists that’s not true — but the issue coming up doesn’t bode well for the Democrats in terms of 2010 or 2012. Will we see calls for an Obama primary challenge? Take your bets how for how long it’ll be before some blog posts suggest that Hillary Clinton will resign and run against Obama. (Uh, oh, this means we have to start seeing yet more posts quoting Dennis Kucinich..)

Michael Moore called for a boycott of Connecticut (that’ll NEVER work and probably even Moore won’t follow it since New Haven’s Pepe’s pizza is the best in the world, no matter how much they hate Lieberman.) Will a call for Yalies not to attend classes be far behind:)? Will this start a new trend?Boycott Utah because you don’t like Orrin Hatch…Boycott New York because you hate Chuck Schumer….

Some callers on progressive talk shows are saying they won’t vote for or contribute to the Democratic party in 2010 or 2012.

Lisa Solod Warren, writing on the Huffington Post essentially writes Obama’s political obituary and contends both Tiger Woods and Obama are examples of black role models who were done in by hubris.

Two key unions that have been big Democratic party workhorse are considering opposing the Lieberman-influenced health care plan.

A new poll suggests the public has soured on health care reform. Some of this is probably due to this being an issue that never seems to end and the large number of people on the right AND left who don’t like the versions being mentioned because they consider it either too much or too little.

The Democrat Party has never been a very cohesive group. They're really a collection of individual special interest groups that often bind together, at least for a little while. However, it doesn't take all that much to break off chunks big enough to cause them to lose elections.

After they and many independents rallied together in 2008 under the banner of hope, change, rainbows and unicorns, they certainly seemed unstoppable. But the events of this year, mainly centered around the poor performance of Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, has once again splintered that coalition. The independents are fleeing the Democrats and various groups within the Party are becoming disaffected.

It's a beautiful thing to watch.