On 2010-11-09, at 1:19 PM, c b wrote:
> Marv Gandall
>
> Their analyses of the possibilities which were open to an
> administration with a broad mandate for change and in control of both
> Houses of Congress align much more closely with those of Obama and his
> inner circle and the Democratic Leadership Council than they do with
> the Progressive Democrats of America, Move On, Huffington Post,
> Krugman, Reich, Olbermann, Maddow and the other groups and individuals
> comprising the party's liberal wing. Though they wouldn't endorse the
> epithet, they clearly share Robert Gibbs' indictment of the party's
> "professional left".
>
> ^^^^
> CB: "Professional left" is the most respectful epithet yet to be
> used by a sitting Presidential administration for the left. Those
> who wouldn't be satisfied with Kucinich as President, as Gibbs said,
> are ultra-leftist.
But I think you'd agree that Gibbs was aiming his barb not at those "who wouldn't be satisfied with Kucinich as President" but more broadly at those who would be, and especially at those in the party who favoured Obama and have been disappointed by him.