Is it mass hypnosis?

In the Politico today, there is a piece discussing the "liberal despair" regarding Obama and his administration. The debate in the Progressive community according to Politico is whether the fault lies with Republicans who have blocked so much of the Obama agenda or whether it is simply a matter that true change takes time.

I have no doubt that this is the debate in the so-called Progressive community. I also think that they must be suffering from mass hypnosis or some other form of delusion. Republicans are blocking Obama? Don't make me laugh. Politico quotes progressives who say that the stimulus failed because of compromises with Republicans that watered down the bill. Now there is someone who is completely delusional. The stimulus passed with essentially no Republican votes. it was drafted behind closed doors with no Republican involvement, indeed with no Republican knowledge of it. It was passed on an emergency basis with most of Congress not even knowing its contents. The stimulus is a product of the Obmacrats, by the Obamacrats and for the Obamacrats (in the sense that it paid off Obama's supporters rather than stimulated the economy).

For the first year of the Obama presidency, the Obamacrats had a fillibuster proof majority in the senate; yet they were unable to pass many of the bills that Obama wanted. That was not Republican opposition. No, it was opposition from the American people. That opposition was not sufficient to dissuade the Obamacrats from passing Obamacare despite huge majorities against the bill.

Maybe the Progressive community ought to ponder the polls in which 40% of Americans call themselves Conservatives while only 20% call themselves Liberals. Maybe they should ponder why it is that in the face of the supposed Republican obstructionism, support for Obama and his party is at the lowest ebb in recent memory. Maybe they should ponder why it is that Liberal orthodoxy has not rescued the economy nor settled any foreign policy problems. Maybe they can determine why race-baiting has become the standard method of operation for the liberals.

The truth is that the failure of the Progressive agenda is not the result of anything other than the Progressive agenda itself. The American people do not want this. The portions of the agenda that were put into effect have not worked.

Maybe we need to get someone on TV to count backwards from 5 and tell the Progressives to wake up. Things could not get any worse for them if they were actually able to discern reality.