Obama's Team Rankles the Right

[jenmito]

To some staunch conservatives watching President Bush relinquish the reins of power to President-elect Barack Obama, a few too many ardent liberals are now crashing the gates.

Some well-known Democratic activists are advising Obama on how to steer federal agencies, including a few whom conservative Republicans fought hard to keep out of power in the Clinton administration. They include Roberta Achtenberg, a gay activist whose confirmation as an assistant housing secretary was famously held up by then-Sen. Jesse Helms (N.C.), and Bill Lann Lee, who was hotly opposed by foes of affirmative action and temporarily blocked from the government's top civil rights job.

Conservatives fear that some of these Obama transition advisers are too far left on the political spectrum and are a sign of radical policies to come.

"It is disturbing," said Roger Clegg, a conservative opponent of Lee's appointment who is now watching the Obama advisers at the Justice Department. "The transition team as described to me was made up of nothing but people on the far left. Though Obama is more moderate, that makes you wonder what kind of advice the president is given, and what range of choices he'll be given when it comes time to make appointments."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/01/AR2009010101832.html?nav=hcmodule


How 'bout THAT? :)

[earthlover]

1. "it is disturbing..." good! GOOD! GREAT!

Good of you to share....

[Cha]

4. Yes, "disturbing" coming from those

fascists is good.

[jenmito]

5. Yup-great for US!

No problem! :hi:

[wryter2000]

2. Wryter2000 to the Right

You lost. Get over it!

[jenmito]

6. Same message from me!

I hope others here see this and take some comfort in it! :D

[thunder rising]

3. These conservatives are social conservatives (racists and homophobes) not fiscal conservatives

[jenmito]

7. Then it's even BETTER that they're "rankled"!

[givemebackmycountry]

8. Hey Roger Clegg! Go fuck yourself with a BIG rubber dildo you asshole....

Far LEFT?
FAR FUCKING LEFT?

How come in the past THIRTY FUCKING YEARS I have never, EVER, heard someone described as FAR RIGHT?
FAR RIGHT!
You know, FAR RIGHT, like everyone who runs, or comments on, or serves under in your putrid party!

FAR RIGHT Roger Clegg!

Tell me the last time you heard THAT used to describe you or one of your buds!

God, I HATE THESE FUCKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MadMaddie]

9. Yawn...my, my, my

They raise whining to a new level, and the more they whine the more obvious it becomes that the Neocons had no intention of trying to jhelp the ailing economy or world policies.


They had their 8 years to prove that they could actually do something, well actually they did they proved they suck at everything they do.

Let the monumental whining continue.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

10. To be fair, some of his appointments rankled the left

so maybe this is a sign of balance.

Though I was hoping for more "left" than "balanced". Oh, well, maybe universal health care will happen ... later.

:hi:

[Puzzler]

11. Please... be disturbed, very disturbed.

.

[Christian30]

12. Oh please...

This is just the beginning of the conservative rationale for opposing Obama's policies. "He should govern from the Center." (A center that has been pushed rightward for 30 years.) "He's appointing far left liberals." (Name me one. Hillary? LOL. Rahm? LMFAO.) I know Roberta Achtenberg and she's hardly a far left zealot.

[11 Bravo]

13. That's a start, but I don't want them merely "rankled".

I want them apoplectic. I want them babbling with incoherent rage. I want them choking on their bile, puking, and then aspirating their own vomit.
And when that's all done, I want some really bad shit to happen to them.

[AnnieBW]

14. Good!

They should be disturbed.