Liberals voice concerns about Obama

[Chris_]

Liberals voice concerns about Obama

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.

Obama has reversed pledges to immediately repeal tax cuts for the wealthy and take on Big Oil. He’s hedged his call for a quick drawdown in Iraq. And he’s stocking his White House with anything but stalwarts of the left.

Now some are shedding a reluctance to puncture the liberal euphoria at being rid of President George W. Bush to say, in effect, that the new boss looks like the old boss.

“He has confirmed what our suspicions were by surrounding himself with a centrist to right cabinet. But we do hope that before it's all over we can get at least one authentic progressive appointment,” said Tim Carpenter, national director of the Progressive Democrats of America.

OpenLeft blogger Chris Bowers went so far as to issue this plaintive plea: “Isn't there ever a point when we can get an actual Democratic administration?”

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Liberals ain't happy unless they're, well, unhappy.   

[NHSparky]

Face it--these clowns won't be happy until half the country is one big Killing Field gulag and the rest of us are in bread lines like the old Soviet Union.

Of course, nobody bothers to tell them that the people who pushed for the revolution in the first place are usually the first one against the wall when it starts.  Just ask Trotsky, et al.

[Splashdown]

In black and white for the DUmmies:

[Atomic Lib Smasher]

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Liberals ain't happy unless they're, well, unhappy.   

Pretty much. And as I said on my blog, they can relish in the fact that the 2nd black president is about as left as the 1st black president was.