Lunatic Fringe? Professional Left? Gibbs redefines the last refuge of a scoundrel

I just had to front page this one. Some things are so silly you just can’t let them pass and most liberal bloggerss are not giving Robert Gibbs a pass so why should we? The Hill interviewed Obama’s press secretary and caught him in one of his typical unhinged moments. Basically, we’re all not satisfied with the pro-corporate, results avoiding legislation that’s come out Washington for the past two years because we’re a bunch of ungrateful crazies. Name calling is always a great response to the valid criticism of Obama, Pelosi, and Reid’s ability to sell out every democratic idea to the highest bidder and basically pass Heritage Foundation policies while the right screams socialism and gains political momentum! What the hell kind of success is this? Or perhaps, I should say What fresh Hell is this? Robert Gibbs’ mouth needs to be sent on a permanent vacation. Hopefully, the same place where his brain has already gone.

The White House is simmering with anger at criticism from liberals who say President Obama is more concerned with deal-making than ideological purity.

During an interview with The Hill in his West Wing office, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs blasted liberal naysayers, whom he said would never regard anything the president did as good enough.

“I hear these people saying he’s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested,” Gibbs said. “I mean, it’s crazy.”

The press secretary dismissed the “professional left” in terms very similar to those used by their opponents on the ideological right, saying, “They will be satisfied when we have Canadian healthcare and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon. That’s not reality.”

Of those who complain that Obama caved to centrists on issues such as healthcare reform, Gibbs said: “They wouldn’t be satisfied if Dennis Kucinich was president.”

So that’s the best he can do when defending extended illegal wire tapping, ramping up the Afghan War, selling out working class poor to insurance companies, and giving a few symbolic speeches then appointing commissions to study DADT while opposing gay marriage. And this administration is different how?

Here’s Glennzilla on said insults and said ‘progressive’ results-driven legislature the Dinocratic majority and president have achieved.

You may think that the reason you’re dissatisfied with the Obama administration is because of substantive objections to their policies: that they’ve done so little about crisis-level unemployment, foreclosures and widespread economic misery. Or because of the White House’s apparently endless devotion to Wall Street. Or because the President has escalated a miserable, pointless and unwinnable war that is entering its ninth year. Or because he has claimed the power to imprison people for life with no charges and to assassinate American citizens without due process, intensified the secrecy weapons and immunity instruments abused by his predecessor, and found all new ways of denying habeas corpus. Or because he granted full-scale legal immunity to those who committed serious crimes in the last administration. Or because he’s failed to fulfill — or affirmatively broken — promises ranging from transparency to gay rights.

But Robert Gibbs — in one of the most petulant, self-pitying outbursts seen from a top political official in recent memory, half derived from a paranoid Richard Nixon rant and the other half from a Sean Hannity/Sarah Palin caricature of The Far Left — is here to tell you that the real reason you’re dissatisfied with the President is because you’re a fringe, ideological, Leftist extremist ingrate who needs drug counseling …

Hold on a sec, I have to have my army of house servants bring me my next bong hit since I make so much money as a professional leftie whiner …

Matthew Yglesias says Gibbs needs to be drug tested himself.

Robert Borosage suggests Gibbs consider this.

The left isn’t the problem — the corporate wing of the party is. The left hasn’t gotten in the president’s way, for better or worse. It’s the corporate right of the party — the Blue Dogs and New Democrats — that have stood in the way. They joined with Republicans to weaken the recovery plan. Max Baucus did the dance with so-called moderate Republicans like Charles “death panel” Grassley that ate up the first year in useless negotiations. Blue dogs largely sabotaged energy legislation. New Democrats weakened already inadequate financial reforms. And the deficit hawks now sabotage needed jobs programs in an economy in big trouble. The problem with the left is that it has been too weak, not too strong.

Frankly, I suggest Gibbs consider this.