...this issue already.  Why don't you add your comment to one of those diaries?  

You just pushed someone else's diary off the front page by posting a comment in diary form.  

he supports the bill thats a compromise from the Gang of 10.

really I got to ask do progressives seem to think that they will get their platform 100%? that hey the words compromise will never apply to anything progressives care about?

just because progressives seem to think the GOP has no power left, doesn't make it so.

we want our government to actually work, that means compromise people. get use to it. its what Obama has said since day 1, he will build a working coalition

That means we aren't going to be in deadlock waiting for 1 side to give up. means we are going to give a little, we are going to make them give a little, and we are going to compromise and get stuff done.

Just curious: have you ever thought for yourself in your life or do you blindly believe every Republican talking point no matter how absurd?

Barack's running on the ability to unite and get things done. His claim is that bickering gets in the way of doing deals, and that he won't refuse a deal because some element is repugnant to his base.  

In this case he's being clear, even though this is a pander that is bad public policy and could further harm the environment and won't help with fuel costs (and is the wrong direction), he'd let it go to pass the energy bill he wants, give the other side a little face saving gesture, and hope that he'd be able to take it out later, it would be for window dressing.  

His thing is to get along, and that means no one gets left out entirely, including really stupid or wrong-headed types.

His mistake is that he didn't have to make this claim, it was a tad too honest and too complex to explain without losing the attention of his listeners.  He could have said - offshore drilling is bad public policy, and, he'll do what needs to be done to pass a overall useful energy bill.

then move-on wouldn't have wasted money on their ad against McCain and his supporters would be able to appreciate his intentions without having to recognize that some details will be offensive, expensive, and in the wrong direction.  

Barack says he's a new kind of politician, and of course he is, he is inexperienced, and he hasn't learned to say what he means simply, so that it's harder to misunderstand.

He's not in favor of off-shore drilling.

He's in favor of getting stuff down without making enemies.  

He needs to learn how to state his policies in a way that they can't be misunderstood. right now he hands the misunderstanding sound bite on a silver platter.  

then people would be screaming "she'll do anything to get elected" and what a panderer she is. The hypocrisy is kinda funny.

Yawn. I am not surprised by his recent flops. I knew the guy was nothing more than a libertarian in drag. I am taking pleasure in watching him track to the GOP standpoint on a host of issues. I am expecting him to throw gays and lesbians under the bus next. It would fit his MO at this point. Why would any progressive keep a guy like Meeks or Caldwell around.

a Progressive, but I'm not on the pure bleeding edge fringe of the group. I'm in the victorious Obama place of progressive politics. The kind that can win and the kind that therefore can accomplish progress rather than merely express outrage.