What’s changed is that Obama & co have abandoned any pretense of cutting the kind of backroom deals Cafferty approves of, I think. No public option = 20 years minimum to corrupt “reform” into a single payer system and a tax on “Cadillac” health care plans to pay for the reform means Cafferty either pays more for his health care or he drops his plan. He’s angry at being thrown under the bus with the rest of Obama’s loyal followers.

That is becoming a big problem within the party. The left is at a loss over unemployment, Afghanistan surge and the financial bailouts. But the sellout to the pharmaceutical industry and the insurance companies is really angering those in the know.

Olberman and Howard Dean have been reigned in.. but others are still furious.

2. The promise of transparency was important to the media; It gives them stories. This was consideration to be paid later.

So the media supported Obama. They had their reasons. But they’ve been defrauded.