There are two large leaps here that I personally have trouble following:

European Tribune - Comments - Ideology of the Anger Left in the USA

It's impossible to understand the destructive role of the "anger left" as represented by Taibbi, Rosenberg, Firedoglake, and others in American politics without applying some class analysis. First, consider the cohesive underlying political message of this group - which can be boiled down to

We, the people, have been betrayed by a weak, unqualified Obama who is under the control and inimical influence of a shadowy Rahm Emmanuel and too close to bankers like Ben Bernancke.

All you have to do is fill in the ethnicity of the characters, which everyone knows, and you've produced something from the traditional language of the far right.

I.e.:

1. A major portion of criticism from the left boils down to accusations of conspiracy.
   
2. Said criticism is next door to racist demagogy.

All I can really say right now is: ^{[citation needed]}.

There are just grounds for disappointment Obama's decisions, even acknowledging that he himself is no progressive. The administration's inexplicable adherence to the Bush "security" doctrine is perhaps the most egregious example.

Secondly, from a European perspective, the criticisms of HCR do not even sound particularly "leftist". Indeed, only a very small slice of the European political spectrum - the Economist neolibs - would count the current senate HCR proposal as "decent reform of medical insurance".

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman