We'll Stop Calling Obama a Cowardly Corporatist as Soon as He Stops Being a Cowardly Corporatist

It's a damn good thing I'm not in Vegas at Netroots Nation, because I'd be cooling my heels in jail right now after busting Van Jones right in the mouth.

Former White House green jobs "czar" Van Jones told progressive activists and bloggers today that, rather than bash President Obama for not changing the country as fast as they'd thought, they should maintain hope and help him with his agenda.

"I can't stand it. President Obama volunteered to be the captain of the Titanic after it hit the iceberg," Jones said at Netroots Nation while being interviewed by journalist Ari Melber of The Nation.

Jones, who resigned last year after conservatives targeted him as an extreme leftist, refrained from any Obama-slamming of his own. Speaking to a large second-day crowd, Jones reminded the group that he quit and wasn't pushed out. "I resigned. I did not want to be the banana peel that the president of the United States slipped on trying to win on health care," Jones said.

He cautioned bloggers from despairing and going after Obama. "This is harder than it looks. Having spent six months in the White House, it's a totally different experience when you're sitting there and the missiles are coming over the horizon at you," he said.

Some nasty limburger with that bitter whine, there, Van?

Let's go with that missile metaphor. We dirty fucking hippie liberal bloggers have a slightly different perspective on them. First of all, we see them arcing toward the White House long before the inhabitants do. Sometimes we even spot the launch.

But when we point out the danger, urging the president to put up a defense, even take preventive action, we are ignored and dismissed.

Because we care about this nation, and see Obama as our only hope of avoiding repug armageddon, we swallow our pride and persevere, pointing and screaming "Missiles! Incoming! Get to the shelter!"

Again our warnings are ignored, and we are mocked, insulted, even threatened.

And when the smoke clears from the smouldering ruins of this maladministration's latest attempt to appease the repugs, and we suggest going on offense to avoid the next attack of missiles, what do we get?

"Shut up and be good little obamabots."

The liberal blogosphere is the only thing standing between Barack Obama and a one-term legacy as the only American president worse than George W. Bush.

Every single one of his much-touted "accomplishments," to the extent they actually accomplished anything, is thanks to the liberal blogosphere. We nagged and bitched and criticized and demanded and screamed bloody murder to get shreds of progressive legislation past Obama's corporate shredder.

We're the ones who organized and petitioned and nailed wavering congress critters to the wall. We're the ones who challenged the teabaggers in the streets and the townhalls. We're the ones who researched and fact-checked and exposed every wingnut lie.

We took every administration betrayal in the gut, then dragged ourselves up and threw ourselves back into the battle Obama and Congressional dems kept trying to surrender.

And we'll keep doing it. We're not shutting up, we're not sitting down, we're not quitting.

We're not asking for Wall Street's seat at the table, or the hot, moist massages the Blue Dogs get. All we ask is that whiny-assed titty babies like Van Jones acknowledge one obvious truth:

The liberal blogosphere is this administration's only fucking ally.

Cross-posted at They Gave Us A Republic ....