Friday, November 14, 2008
Back to the future
How many times did B. Hussein Obama and his sychophants use the word "change" during the 2008 presidential election? By my very conservative estimate, it was 1,326,901. How's this for "change":
Here's how you can tell the campaign is over and the transition has begun: Barack Obama's aides now wear suits and ties, their desks are in the Federal Building on 6th Street in Washington, D.C. - and Clintonites are everywhere.
Obama's victory in the general election produced what his primary campaign couldn't: A swift merger of the Clinton Wing of the Democratic Party with the Illinois Senator's self-styled insurgency. The merger began, during the campaign, in the policy apparatus - which is now rapidly becoming the governing apparatus.
... Thirty-one of the 47 people so far named to transition or staff posts have ties to the Clinton administration, including all but one of the members of his 12-person Transition Advisory Board and both of his White House staff choices.
I guess if Obama wants folks who have White House experience, he has no choice but to turn to former Clintonites (most of the veterans of the Carter Administration are either too old to serve or have gone to that great donkey coral in the sky). However, it is odd that Obama's already staffing his "team" with folks who were responsible for making the first two years of the first Clinton term such a disaster.
We all know what happened in 1994: Republicans took control of the U.S. Senate for the first time in eight years, and control of the U.S. House for the first time in forty years. Clinton was also forced to turn right, and he spent the remainder of his years in office supporting things like welfare reform, free trade, lower cap-gains taxes, and a balanced budget. Wouldn't it be funny if history repeated itself? Will Moveon.org, George Soros, ACORN, et al. cotton to Obama's "change" if he's forced to abandon his doctrinaire liberalism in favor of more centrist or - gasp! - center-right positions?
If Obama keeps asking former Clintonites to polish up their résumés, we're gonna get a chance to find out.
Here's how you can tell the campaign is over and the transition has begun: Barack Obama's aides now wear suits and ties, their desks are in the Federal Building on 6th Street in Washington, D.C. - and Clintonites are everywhere.
Obama's victory in the general election produced what his primary campaign couldn't: A swift merger of the Clinton Wing of the Democratic Party with the Illinois Senator's self-styled insurgency. The merger began, during the campaign, in the policy apparatus - which is now rapidly becoming the governing apparatus.
... Thirty-one of the 47 people so far named to transition or staff posts have ties to the Clinton administration, including all but one of the members of his 12-person Transition Advisory Board and both of his White House staff choices.
I guess if Obama wants folks who have White House experience, he has no choice but to turn to former Clintonites (most of the veterans of the Carter Administration are either too old to serve or have gone to that great donkey coral in the sky). However, it is odd that Obama's already staffing his "team" with folks who were responsible for making the first two years of the first Clinton term such a disaster.
We all know what happened in 1994: Republicans took control of the U.S. Senate for the first time in eight years, and control of the U.S. House for the first time in forty years. Clinton was also forced to turn right, and he spent the remainder of his years in office supporting things like welfare reform, free trade, lower cap-gains taxes, and a balanced budget. Wouldn't it be funny if history repeated itself? Will Moveon.org, George Soros, ACORN, et al. cotton to Obama's "change" if he's forced to abandon his doctrinaire liberalism in favor of more centrist or - gasp! - center-right positions?
If Obama keeps asking former Clintonites to polish up their résumés, we're gonna get a chance to find out.
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Friday, November 14, 2008 
