For over a year now, some progressive Democrats have held on desperately to the idea that Barack Obama really wants to promote their agenda. As time has gone forward, and that progressive agenda has failed to materialize in the Obama White House, there’s been one final excuse that they’ve clung to: Obama hasn’t had the time to keep his promises, because he’s been working on a lot of really important stuff that needed to get done first.
You’ve heard the excuses: Obama hasn’t worked to reform the FISA Amendments Act, like he said he would, but that’s just because he’s had to prioritize other really important stuff. Obama never kept his promise to reform the Office of Faith Based Initiatives, but that’s only because he was busy. Obama hasn’t gotten to work on science-based protection of endangered species as required by law, but who could blame him, what with all the other serious issues on his agenda.
Today we found out just what sort of work President Obama has been working on instead of keeping his promises to progressive voters: Obama has been working on a plan to send people on a spaceship to Mars.
After today’s Mars announcement, Barack Obama’s defenders just can’t use the excuse that their hero has been too busy with important with serious issues to keep his promises to the people who enabled him to win the Democratic nomination in 2008. If President Obama has time to play Buck Rogers with Mars, he has time to keep his promises.
Watch this montage.
Yeah, but it looks like we’ll probably end up with two terms of this failed leader, since the Republicans basically have no one worth voting for in their short list of candidates to challenge him in 2012. Maybe we’ll get lucky and the Mayan prediction will actually occur, instead (of the slow dragging-it our process that his environmental policies are foisting on us).