clipped from: www.progressive.org 
I was reading the cover story of the New York Times Sunday Magazinethe other day—the one about Obama’s team taking Capitol Hill—and I came upon the following quote from Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel.
That’s the problem I have with Emanuel—and with Obama.
There’s no principle they’re willing to go to the mat for.
“The only nonnegotiable principle here,” he said, “is success. Everything else is negotiable.”
They didn’t fight for universal single-payer health care.
They didn’t fight for giving judges the authority to reduce the mortgages of people in bankruptcy.
They didn’t fight against the bank bailout.
They didn’t fight to keep GM from shutting down plants and laying off 21,000 people, even when they’re taking ownership of GM.
They didn’t fight for marriage equality or against don’t ask, don’t tell.
They didn’t fight against indefinite detention without trial; hell, they’ve embraced it.