“Liberals are growing increasingly nervous – and some just flat-out angry – that President-elect Barack Obama seems to be stiffing them on Cabinet jobs and policy choices”, reports Politico.
I don’t quite get this. I consider myself something of a liberal, and I’ve supported Obama exactly because he’s pragmatic, lawyerly, and centrist. If anything, his cabinet picks, except for Hillary Clinton, show a strong lean towards the apolitical. He needs a national security team equipped to fight the wars he inherits, not quibble over campaign promises made two years ago; and he needs an economic team that is ready to tackle the country’s problems head-on, not advance someone’s agenda.
I would think Americans have had enough ideological stupidity to last a lifetime, but maybe not.
Ooh! Ooh! I have! I have! I’ve had a bellyful of ideology on both sides, and I’d like those pompous windbags on Kos to shove it! And it’s not like he’s going to rip off a face mask on January 21st, a la Scooby Doo, and reveal that he’s actually George W’s secret twin, or something. Really, they need to stop pissing their pants over nothing. Still, I’m glad to see that I was right in picking Obama, that he wouldn’t be a partisan jerkoff.