Catch what Bill Maher is saying about Barack Obama: “not getting the job done”… “not what I voted for”… “he needs to stop worrying about being loved”… “the audacity of hope part is over.”

Bill Maher is not the first person to point out that Barack Obama is failing to follow through on the promises of the election. But, his rant is a significant marker that progressive anger at Barack Obama is rising toward the boiling point. The honeymoon is over, and if President Obama keeps on following the policy agenda of George W. Bush, then he’s going to have a challenge in 2012 - from the left!

Sadly, it comes as no surprise. We are coming to expect that President Barack Obama will stand with just about every single rotten Bush Administration policy there is. This one comes as a hard pill, though, for all the GLBT Americans who supported Obama, giving their money and their time to his 2008 campaign, believing that he would make things better for them.

Barack Obama is now working to preserve the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Obama actually sent Department of Justice lawyers into court this week in order to argue that the Defense of Marriage Act, and other laws that block equal marriage rights, don’t discriminate against gays and lesbians. Why? Because gays and lesbians retain equal rights to marry people of the opposite sex!

Nuts, right? What’s not so directly laughable is that Obama’s lawyers compared same-sex marriage to incest and statutory rape.

I’ve got a feeling that the Obama 2012 campaign is going to have to contend with a gays against Obama movement.