Reprinted, unedited (except for spelling errors [Seriously, it’s spelled B-a-r-a-c-k. Where did you get your freakin’ doctorate anyway?])
Dear Dr. Liberal,
Am I right to be mad at Barack Obama for selling out to all the Democratic douchnozzles and Republicans fucktards in Congress? He does seem to have squandered the victory that we delivered to him in November and some of my liberal friends have already jumped off the bus.
Signed,
Wondering in Wilmington
Dear Wondering,
Duh. Of course you should be angry. Obama’s obsessive congressional ass kissing is making him suck as a Democratic President in direct proportion to how great he was as a Democratic candidate. The country hired him to be Franklin Roosevelt and he is looking like Franklin Pierce. If ever America needed a big dream it was in 1980 and the US Hockey team stepped the fuck up. If there was ever another time inour history when America needed a big dream it was/is in the wake of the sideways assfuckery of the Bush administration. But instead of a “miracle on ice” rebuilding of the robust and optimistic American brand here and abroad we have a policy tinkerer.
But I think you know that. I think your question is really trying to figure out how mad you should be and when should you get off the bus.
To answer by way of extending your metaphor, how many friends outside of the bus throwing rocks at the bus and giving you the finger are too many? How many announcements over the bus loudspeaker by Joe Lieberman explaining in his Elmer Fudd voice how Obama is wise to follow his counsel are too many Elmer Fudd announcements? How many crazed looks from John Boehner as he grabs the wheel and tries to steer the bus over a cliff are too many crazed looks?
Granted, last year’s stimulus package saved the economy from a complete meltdown – but you are on a bus with a bunch of crazy people headed to who knows where. Unless Obama gets his partisan game on (really on…no seriously. I mean so fucking on), you are going to be off the bus sooner or later anyway, so it all comes down to how far you feel like walking.