Is There Anybody Left in the Democratic Party

who is still drinking the Kool Aid and thinks Obama is a Democrat? His neoliberal, Wall Street, and outright Republican attitudes are right out there in the open for the entire world to see, real Democrats be damned.

This is the same Obama who does not know the main provisions of the Social Security Act of 1935 -- as evinced on repeated occasions. Who put Social Security and Medicare on the rack by rigging his deficit commission with the appointment of Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles. The Obama who avowedly takes his inspiration from Ronald Reagan; who spent his holiday in Hawaii reading an account of how the Gipper's White House office was run for him. The Obama who has reserved his harshest and heartfelt words for attacks on progressives. Political expediency is not the reason for turning his back on his supporters and on his pledges. After all, spurning his constituents and kowtowing to the entrenched interests led to the biggest off-year disaster in American electoral history. In short, all the evidence is that an old-school "moderate" Republican occupies the White House.

I wouldn't call him a moderate but an out-and-out rightwinger.

As one wag over at the Old Elm Tree board notes: "Just yesterday, I was trying to decide if Obama was a Trojan Horse. I decided he was a Trojan rubber instead: a thin film standing between the screwees and the screwers.

He leaks."

I couldn't agree more.