You've seen them. You've read about them. Now you know what to call them.
They're the whining, gloom and doom, "Obama didn't give us everything we wanted in the first 15 minutes of his Presidency like he promised he would so now we're never gonna vote again" crybabies who are responsible for the mess we're in today. Spend five minutes on Daily Kos. You'll see what I'm talking about.
EmoProgs don't understand the difference between "running for president" and "being president." They don't understand that campaign promises made sometimes become campaign promises unfulfilled because, when a person becomes president, that person learns things only a president can know. That person starts getting daily security briefings. That person starts getting the inside scoop that he or she didn't know about until he or she won the election.
Obama said he would close Gitmo. Well, in reality, that has turned out to be a tough nut to crack. As much as the EmoProgs would like Obama to fold his arms over his chest, blink his eyes, nod his head and BADDA BING! It's Done...
That ain't how it works. The president is one of three branches of government. And just because Democrats bent over backwards for George Bush does NOT mean Republicans are willing to compromise a millimeter for Obama. A president can not close Gitmo without the Congress appropriating the money to do so, to set up some other prison (like the one in Illinois that would have been perfect). Congress says no to the idea, what's the president supposed to do? Kneecap someone?
Now the EmoProgs and their leaders like Dennis Kucinich are moaning because Obama had to give up some things to get a budget proposal on the table. You know WHY he had to do that?
Because so many of the EmoProgs sat on their self-righteous little asses on election day and didn't vote, that's why. THAT'LL show Obama that we hold him accountable for not living up to each and every promise he made. That'll ALSO ensure that he has a Republican House of Representatives filled with Tea Party members to deal with.
Now, you think Obama can just bulldog his way through this intransigent bunch of troglodytes... most of which don't even believe he's an American citizen ... and through the sheer force of his energy FORCE Teabaggers to do things HIS way? That's what a dictator would do. That's what a tyrant would do. That's not what President Obama would do.
See, I think here is where the problem lies.
Many of the EmoProgs voted for Obama thinking he was the new Jesus, that he would sweep into Washington and just by the very GOODNESS and RIGHTEOUSNESS of who he is and what he represents, Republican would roll over on their backs so Obama could tickle their soft, white little tummies and they'd do whatever he wanted them to do.
Serious people voted for Obama because he was the grownup in the room. Where John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his running mate and stormed and ranted and "suspended his campaign to fix the economy" after saying the fundamentals of the economy were strong, he looked like an eccentric grandpa who stopped wearing his Exelon patches. "No Drama Obama" stayed cool, stayed confident, and we voted for him because we trusted him to do the right thing.
He is still doing the right thing. At least he's TRYING to. But he has this roadblock in his way. A Republican Congress created by a small but loud group of elderly white racists with the financial backing of mega-billionaires who could care LESS about the color of Obama's skin or his place of birth but DO care that he was going to roll back the Bush Tax Cuts. The mega-billionaires fooled the elderly white racists into marching on DC by convincing them that this Obama character was a Marxist Socialist Communist Nazi Manchurian Candidate, and these elderly white folk who didn't cotton to the idea of "one of THOSE people" sitting where St. Ronald of Reagan once sat glommed onto this concept and ran with it, put up their own candidates in Republican Primaries, beat the socks off the more traditional Republicans, then defeated the Blue Dog Democrats and other Democrats in traditionally Republican districts.
Because the EmoProgs were so DISGUSTED that Obama, the grownup in the room, didn't give them the whole jar of cookies at once instead of doling them out like a responsible adult.
This is why we have a Republican congress, kids! This is why we have blatant liars like John Kyl telling outright falsehoods on the Senate floor and getting away with it. This is why we have a budget deficit plan, presented by Paul Ryan, that will take 70 years to balance the budget.
It's because YOU stayed HOME last November, EmoProg! It's because the Tea Party was motivated and you were smoking pot and singing songs about injustice and didn't get off your ass to VOTE!!!
So keep it up, Kucinich. Keep it up, other EmoProgs in the media. Whine every time Obama has to compromise when faced with a choice of doing a little bit of good or doing nothing. When he has to make a choice between helping the poor and middle class a little bit or watching them get rolled over and raped by the Koch brothers and their Tea Party Machine.
Keep whining. Keep doing what you're doing. I have two words to describe the end result of your actions. Two words that should scare the holy hell out of you.
"President Bachmann."
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