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Tea Party Leader Warns GOP Pols: We're 'Turning Our Guns' On You

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What, me worry?1/06/2010 1:26:31 pm PST

re: #154 lawhawk

Except that Congress (with a Democrat majority) provided no money for the Gitmo closure and the earliest that Gitmo will close will be 2011. The ultimate drawdown of troops in Iraq is an open question, and Obama doubled down on Afghanistan by sending a troop surge. Those three items aren’t exactly ones that Obama will find favor with among the Left, not when he promised to close Gitmo by the end of 2009.

That’s Obama’s problem, cowtowing to the Right. It’s my only criticism of him. Particularly with healthcare. He should have pushed the public option through or leaned on the Dems to do it. Bush didn’t court Leftie opinions the way that Obama seems to be courting the Right. It will never work for him. The Right will never respect him.

He’s also looked the other way with the Patriot Act. Maybe he feels there’s other more important things to get to (and maybe there are), but the Dems are pretty pissed about that one, too.

Obama did the right thing in Afghanistan, but I’m not surprised. He’s a smart man which his critics don’t see.