the professional left aren't

they may be professionals, but whether it's krugman or katrina vanden heuvel or bloggers like daily kos or talking points memo, these people are not at all to the 'left' of anything.  krugman et al. are certainly more liberal or leftist than obama or bill clinton, but that does not make them anything more than solid, boring centrists.  when obama pissed on the professional left, he was really talking about the professional center only because the establishment media are surely right wing.