No, this isn’t about the weasel Welch, his success in using lies in attacking and dismantling the low income advocacy ACORN and how he joined his reactionary, radical, right wing buddies in congress to do so.

No … this is about welch and Leahy and Sanders and Obama and the company they keep and who they’ll go to bat for … and it starts with this:

President Barack Obama had some friendly advice on Monday for liberal Democrats who say he has not achieved everything on their wish lists — quit complaining.

(Obama: Liberal critics should stop griping and ‘wake up’, Raw Story, 09/21/10)

Obama pulls this straight from the right wing/weasel welch playbook: build up the strawman and destroy the real person with the subsequent attack.

Forget the fact that progressives I know aren’t upset because Obama didn’t get absolutely everything done; progressives I know are upset because Obama did exactly what Clinton did before him: act as a timid right winger place holder for the fascist of the right.

Along with the litany of excusing torture, increased war spending, more government secrecy, assaults on medical marijuana dispensaries, Wall Street bailouts, hopping in bed with BP, forcing us to send our money to the already glutted insurance companies and their way way way overpaid CEOs and such as all this – we can add

Just days away from the implementation of new rules that will prevent insurers from denying coverage to children with pre-existing conditions, numerous major insurers have opted to end the sale of child-only policies.

(Major insurers to drop child policies ahead of coverage mandate, Raw Story, 09/21/10)

And

UPDATE: The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted 9 to 0 on Tuesday morning in favor of Lew’s nomination and referred him to the full Senate. The Senate Budget Committee also has a vote.

A former top executive at Citigroup who participated in the deregulation of Wall Street during the Clinton administration and recently was tapped by President Barack Obama for a top White House post told a Senate panel last week that deregulation didn’t lead to the recent financial crisis.

(Jacob Lew, Obama Nominee And Former Citigroup Executive, Doesn’t Believe Deregulation Led To Financial Crisis, Huffington Post, 09/21/10)

Of course the welch/Leahy/Sanders crew will be busy telling us how great it all is going, and we should be electing more Democrats to Washington DC because things will be soooooooooooooooo different. These three will spend their time defending the DC status quo and Obama’s pretensions to progressive politics.

They’ll do this because they really don’t disagree with the results they’re (not) achieving. (Actions, my friends, speak much louder than words.)

And Obama will whine how we just don’t appreciate his version of “change”.