Tue, 11/18/2008 - 10:23am — vastleft
On the myth of excessive partisanship.
What Glenn didn't say is that the president-elect ran (in a can't-lose year) a campaign founded on this canard, and that the official platform of the Democrat Party bronzed this idea: "A great nation now demands that its leaders abandon the politics of partisan division...."
It was always gauche to mention this, and apparently it still is.
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Lambert was on to this a year ago
I think he wrote a post about Obama's stump speech and its calls fro High Broderism last December of January. It's a classic.
Come together at The Confluence
"told to hire Republicans at all levels of government"
"... Obama has made clear that he wants a bipartisan look and cast to his administration. The transition team has been told to hire Republicans at all levels of government, not just as token cabinet appointments. " ..." -- http://www.newsweek.com/id/169170/page/3
and Digby -- "... It sounds like he really means to have a real bipartisan government from top to bottom. Combined with the Republican operatives the Bush administration salted throughout the civil service, there will be many, many Republicans still running things, so the villagers should be able to relax a little bit and enjoy their holidays. ..." -- http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/o...
Think about the scorched earth campaign against Clinton
in the primaries - if that wasn''t hatred for the left, what was it? She may have not had the intellectual left behind her, but she did have their base and Obama went after her like Bush went Gore.
I just think it's a done deal. We don't matter. It only changes if we throw the leadership out entirely.
"Someone needs to point out that elephants produce infinitely more shit than donkeys." Brad Mays
"Obama, McCain Agree on 'Change' for Washington"
"... "At this defining moment in history, we believe that Americans of all parties want and need their leaders to come together and change the bad habits of Washington so that we can solve the common and urgent challenges of our time," they said in a joint statement. ..." -- http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12269439...
Damn.
Lieberman gets to keep his chairmanship. What did he have to agree to do? Anything?
Saw that in the WaPo
I about threw up. Especially at what Reid said.
BlueLyon
Ah--the party formerly known as Democratic? FKD, indeed.
What with my call to Hillary's DC office and now this, not a good day for my attachment to the Democratic Party.
I'll get over it, I guess. After all, where do we have to go?
Aaaarrrrrggghhhhhhh! (Not in Dean fashion, but in Lucy style)
i really wish people had listened to queer atheists like me
back when it could've made a difference. he threw people like me under the bus a looooong time ago, and made it very clear that lefties were *not* going to be more than doormats and torture victims in his new admin. but nooooo. "you go sit in the back of the bus and be quiet, you!" well, enjoy your heaping plate of shit, "progressives." trust me, he doesn't like bloggers and liberal activists any more than he likes annoying loud and unapologetic gaii atheists. we're all scum to be ignored, as far as the new King of the Village
is concerned.
Amen, sister!
PB1.0 turned out to be a Virtual Village
.
The unity of hating on the worst president ever covered a multitude of sins.
The forced unity around The One created a bunch of new ones, in case anyone cared to notice. The biggest one: being a partisan lefty was suddenly (and ironically) gauche in the leftysphere.