Obama's Team Rankles the Right

[babylonsister]

:cry: :nopity:

Obama's Team Rankles the Right
To Some Conservatives, Advisers Are Alarmingly Liberal

By Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 2, 2009; Page A13


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."

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

[ck4829]

1. When the Right whines, that means it's a sign you are doing something right

K&R

[EFerrari]

19. Not really. It usually means you're still breathing. n/t

[Roy]

22. It really feels funny laughing at the truth.

:rofl: :rofl:

[opihimoimoi]

2. For 8 years the GOP had their Far Right guys in there,,,and now they complain its vice versa?? :wtf:

Its their turn to sit and watch...they had their op and blew it...

[driver8]

7. Amazing, isn't it? However, they don't see it as "They blew it." They see it as

cleaning up the mess that Clinton left them!

They are unbelievable, aren't they?

[opihimoimoi]

16. DeLusion is the only explanation coming to mind....they ignore hard evidence...

[corkhead]

3. wingnut pukes, you've had your turn

now sit down and shut the fuck up.

[northernsoul]

4. Hey Righties: You lost.

Now quite whining and get out of the way.

[Jackpine Radical]

10. I think the proper admonition is,

"Get over it, Losers."

[ginnyinWI]

5. yet they'll also say Bush was a disaster.

Bush was a disaster, and he embodied all of their cherished conservative ideals. Yet people who are a change from that are "disturbing". What do they want, anyway? I wish I knew.

[Jackpine Radical]

6. "Far left?" Shit. If those people are far left, then give me

nothing but socialists in my government.

[wryter2000]

8. They can

Kiss my fat, white, liberal *ss.

[driver8]

9. My sentiments, exactly!! n/t

[NJmaverick]

11. I don't understand. I have been told over and over again, that Obama has moved too far to the right

:shrug:

[babylonsister]

15. I hear you; tis a puzzlement. nt

[supernova]

12. Good.

I hope they are bewitched, bothered, and bewildered.

:pity:

and what assholes calling moderate to conservo Dems as "liberal." Neocons have swallowed their own codswallop for so long they don't know the meaning of words anymore.

[babylonsister]

13. Brava to you for using

codswallop in a sentence! :thumbsup: :D

[leeroysphitz]

14. I'll just have to keep telling myself that.

Maybe I'll believe it eventually.

[pacalo]

17. They're trying to manipulate Obama's direction by whining through the media.

Obama should ask Barbara Boxer to explain it to them gently that there are consequences to elections, give each a graham cracker, then assign each whiner an essay, "Why did the voters reject my party in the last two elections?"

[99th_Monkey]

18. Right-Wingnut's idea of "democracy" = No "lefties" allowed. Fuck them. ~nt~

[babylonsister]

20. Nice to see the tables turned. nt

[spanone]

21. 'alarmingly liberal'....bwahahahahahaaa...

why would the washington post even print such drivel

[Roy]

23. I think you've asked a question you already know the answer to.

CORP=CORP=CORP

[Pastiche423]

24. His team is rankling some on the left too