There's No Crying in the Oval Office

By: David Dayen Thursday July 15, 2010 7:51 am

Netroots Nation is next week, and if you go, you’ll see the Majority Leader of the Senate, the Speaker of the House, at least three other Senators and a half-dozen members of Congress, and a bevy of candidates running in November. You won’t see a single member of the Administration, save for the late addition of the Secretary of Transportation (and that’s on a panel, not a keynote session).

See, the White House is deeply hurt that liberal validators are slagging them around. So hurt that they blabbed to VanDeHarris about it.

Eric Alterman, in a column that drew wide notice, wrote in The Nation that most liberals think the president is a “big disappointment.” House Democrats are in near-insurrection after White House press secretary Robert Gibbs stated the obvious — that the party has a chance of losing the House under Obama’s watch. And independent voters have turned decisively against the man they helped elect 21 months ago — a trend unlikely to be reversed before November [...]