Is this transition ever going to stop being about dissing Obama's own supporters?

[Ken Burch]

Can we at least declare that the RIGHT has been "included" enough now and that those of us who actually worked and voted for the guy won't be left totally out in the cold on everything?

It's like we're being punished for helping or something.

We deserved something here. We deserved respect. WE deserved inclusion.

NO other incoming president worked this hard to marginalize his OWN supporters.

[marylanddem]

1. Amen. I am sick at heart.

[mnhtnbb]

2. It's all rhetoric. Just talk. Otherwise known as bullshit and a lot of Dems fell for it.

[cali]

3. yeah, his nomination today of Hilda Solis to be Sec of Labor, is such

a slap in the face to progressives.

[Ken Burch]

4. Solis was the first good thing,

I'm glad about Solis.

We didn't have to go through a month and a half of disses to qualify for her, though.

Nobody else ever spent most of his transition treating his own supporters like the plague.

It's simple...you don't have to exclude your friends to include your rivals.

And Lincoln's "Cabinet of Rivals" didn't have a strict no-abolitionist appointees policy.

[Sebastian Doyle]

7. Here's what you apologists don't get.

It's fine that someone picked for labor is Liberal. Or that Stephen Chu, picked for Secretary of Energy is a Nobel Prize winning scientist who believes in alternative energy, as opposed to an Exxon shit for brains shill.

But these picks come as a surprise to no one. The BIG problems are foreign policy and financial policy. And in THOSE areas, the cabinet picks do NOT represent significant change from the last 28 years of bullshit.

And as I've said before, the choice of Monsanto shilling, DLC chairing, Dean Hating piece of shit Tom Vilsack at Agriculture is especially troubling. If one guy could be a poster child for everything wrong with the current Democratic party, he would be a good choice for THAT.

And Rick Warren? pass the puke bucket :puke:

[cali]

8. dog, I'm sick of blind stupid dogmatists with their rigid narratives

running around and calling anyone who challenges them, apologists. Fuck teh stupid as exlempified so stunningly in your shitbag post.

:hi:

[Splinter Cell]

5. What bullshit.

We couldn't ask for a better incoming president, and yet some folks do nothing but C.B.S. about EVERYTHING he does.

[Ken Burch]

6. He didn't have to exclude us to include others.

Is that so hard to understand?

The Republicans never treat their own base as junior partners in the coalition.

[girl gone mad]

9. Bush listened to his supporters..

he worked to make them happy, and in return they gave him boundless political capital. They stood by him until the bitter end, literally.

[Uzybone]

10. and we all sank because of it.

[girl gone mad]

12. Because his ideologies were always destructive and wrong..

imagine someone with equal political skills but a polar opposite ideology.

[jonnyblitz]

11. it's beyond fucking sickening isn't it?nt