As predicted in an earlier post, I and my mythical ideological kinfolk are becoming “gradually disillusioned as hangover sets in and inherent centrism of Democratic party manifests; spends much of the next four years reminding selves that this is ‘better than Bush.’”
I amended the title to this post because “better than” remains to be seen given the past week of depressing concessions to the right. Most recently, today’s ringing endorsement of Joe Lieberman’s turncoat bad-mouthing of the party.
This follows Obama’s bold stand against torture, although even Bush says he is against torture. The issue is: will the administration obey the laws already on the books, and will it hold lawbreakers, like BushCo, responsible?
At least on the latter, BushCo, the answer is no.
Hillary “I heart war in the Middle East” Clinton is set to be Secretary of State.
The apparatchiks who presided over the demise of the Democrats 40-year congressional majority, gutted welfare, and de-regulated as much as they could—i.e. Bill Clinton’s White House staff—are working in the same jobs for Obama.
Sigh, at least they’re not Bush. He was really annoying. Still, it’s useful to remember how “bi-partisan” congressional politics really were under Bush’s reign. One has to hope that Obama has a secret plan to move the government towards change, but then the right had to hope that their party was going to find WMD in Iraq and create widespread prosperity through government corruption.
Go ahead and call Harry Reid and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and let them know what a great job they did today.
Watching MSNBC now and hearing Chuck Todd say the “blogosphere” (I guess that’s us) will not be too upset about all the triangulation. This is the calculation: The left is still so happy about winning the election that they don’t care about the details of governance. And if they do, they’re too weak to do anything about it. As Jane Hamsher put it, Reid just told the left to “suck on that, Liberals!”