Topic: Liberal Fascism
To see how much damage is being inflicted on the Obama Administration by its feckless behavior on the economic front, just check out the Huffington Post.
I was startled, frankly, to find that the HuffPo includes a business section—as unlikely a thing in its way as Pravda stock picks—and I was frankly amazed at the level of discontent that the Obama Administration has stirred up in the progressive fever swamps.
Plenty of HuffPo denizens want Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner to be shown the door—amusing wen you reflect how many of them defended the guy's tax cheating at the time of his nomination. But Tim has been a disappointment. What progressives want is for the capitalists to be expropriated. Instead, Obama & Co. have gone hat in hand to Wall Street, offering all kinds of incentives if only the private sector would help bail out our troubled banks. The Revolution has been betrayed!
This growing progressive discontent underlines one of the fundamental truths of American politics: In the long run, a president's greatest liability isn't his enemies, but his friends. Those who supported the successful candidate most fervently tend to believe that they have the right to dictate the president's agenda. And right now, they want Geithner gone
But of course, there's no possibility that Geithner will be fired. He's holding down the fort virtually single-handed. If he departed, there'd be no one left to answer the phone.
