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Never Satisfied
QandO — You’d think after 8 years of whining, some on the left would be tired of it. But they’re not: Liberals are growing increasingly nervous – and some just flat-out angry – that President-elect Barack Obama seems to be stiffing them on Cabinet jobs and policy choices. Obama has reversed pledges to immediately repeal tax cuts for the wealthy and take on Big Oil. He’s hedged his call for a quick drawdown in Iraq. And he’s stocking his White House with anything but stalwarts of the left. Now some are shedding a reluctance ...

Obama Not Much Help to Dems Post-Election
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... from the three congressional races held after Nov. 4. Plus: Politico on liberals growing nervous over Obama "stiffing them on Cabinet jobs and policy choices."       ...

Morning Roundup: Around the Web with a Lurch
The Latest on Air America — ... , and takes a few shots at Obama's distaste for the CIA's less savory activities. Stuff like that patriotic God-loving waterboarding and rendition, of course.  Usually second-wise timely Politico has a splashy piece about how liberals aren't thrilled by Obama's cabinet choices. It's about three weeks late, but fine. Tune in later for some thoughts on how that discomfort has given way to an understanding of that whole "team of rivals" thing.  ...

POLITICO: Liberals Voice Concerns About Obama: “Liberals are growing increasingly nervous – and s…
Instapundit — ... POLITICO: Liberals Voice Concerns About Obama: “Liberals are growing increasingly nervous – and some just flat-out angry – that President-elect Barack Obama seems to be stiffing them on Cabinet jobs and policy choices. Obama has reversed pledges to immediately repeal tax cuts for the wealthy and take on Big Oil. He’s hedged his call for a quick drawdown in Iraq. And he’s stocking his White House with anything but stalwarts of the left. Now some are shedding a reluctance to puncture the liberal euphoria at being rid of President George W. Bush to say, in effect, ...

Memo to Nutroots Bloggers: You Don't Run the Democratic Party
JammieWearingFool — ... they were promised, they're now close to revolting . Well, actually, they are revolting in the aesthetic sense, of course, but why not give the guy a chance in office first? Isn't that what they demand of us before we dare to criticize Obama? Liberals are growing increasingly nervous – and some just flat-out angry – that President-elect Barack Obama seems to be stiffing them on Cabinet jobs and policy choices. Obama has reversed pledges to immediately repeal tax cuts for the wealthy and take on Big Oil. He’s hedged his call for a quick drawdown in Iraq. And he’s stocking ...

Some progressives apparently shocked to discover that they elected a politician, not (awesomely wise secular teacher!) Jesus. Clip at eleven.
Megan McArdle — ... I don't understand why these articles keep getting written.  Moreover, I don't understand why they can keep getting written.  Did progressives really think they'd woken up in Sweden on November 5th?  ...

Triangulation, Part II.
The Moderate Voice — ... It seems that the honeymoon period of President-elect Barack Obama is over. As I previously posted, Obama’s biggest critics are not going to come from conservatives but from within the liberal base of his own party. Simply put, as a Republican I was comfortable supporting him because I saw a pragmatic, capable leader instead of a candidate that was driven by progressive ideology. For those of you who missed it, the clue was Obama’s praise of the foreign policy decisions of Ronald Reagan and Bush 41. ...

The Early Word: Shaping an Industry's Future
The Caucus — ... a relatively small force. To maintain the postwar peace in Iraq, Shinseki told the Senate Armed Services Committee in February 2003, “something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers” could be necessary. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld reacted by telling reporters that the estimate “will prove to be high,” and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul D. Wolfowitz called it “way off the mark.” The Politico’s Carol E. Lee and Nia-Malika Henderson report that some liberals are concerned that the president-elect “seems to be stiffing them on Cabinet jobs and policy ...

Carol Platt Liebau: When Good Love Goes Bad
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — Liberals are upset that Barack Obama's high profile Cabinet choices have been centrists. It's possible they needn't worry. An awful lot of policymaking is done at sub-Cabinet level, and it's entirely likely that the less high profile appointments will be substantially to the left of those we've already seen. What's more, if you ...

Liberals Feeling Slighted By O!...?
blonde sagacity — ... The central premise of the left’s criticism is direct – don’t bite the hand that feeds, Mr. President-elect. The Internet that helped him so much during the election is lighting up with irritation and critiques..." (Read the entire piece) ...

Ideological Purity Pity Party
Taylor Marsh — BY TAYLOR MARSH People are depressed. Bored. We won the election. What is there to complain about now? So, this was predictable. ...

I guess the bloom is off the rose
Babalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator — I guess the bloom is off the rose Won't get fooled again? Liberals are growing increasingly nervous – and some just flat-out angry – that President-elect Barack Obama seems to be stiffing them on Cabinet jobs and policy choices. Obama has reversed pledges to immediately repeal tax cuts for the wealthy and take on Big Oil. He’s hedged his call for a quick drawdown in Iraq. And he’s stocking his White House with anything but stalwarts of the left. Now some are shedding a reluctance to puncture the liberal euphoria at being rid of President George W. Bush to say, in effect, that ...

Looking for Change in Barack Obama's Cabinet
Politics Daily — ... Corn is careful to say that, to him at least, there is not yet an open rebellion to the Obama administration on the left. But others on his side of the political divide disagree. Tim Carpenter, national director of Progressive Democrats for America said that Obama's choices, "confirmed what our suspicions were [about Obama]." Roger Hickey, co-founder of the liberal group Campaign for America's Future said that in his group, "There's a concern that [Obama will] keep his basic promises and people are going to watch him." Obama campaigned as a post-partisan politician, willing to ...

The Daily Grind
Weekly Standard Blog — ... The NYT predictably blames white voters for Jefferson's loss, ignoring Cao's compelling life story and Jefferson's, ahem, ethical challenges. Abortion politics didn't doom the GOP. Five secretaries of state advise Hillary. Jeremiah Wright vs. Elisabeth Hasselbeck: "That dumb broad." Fall of Western Civilization Watch: Words about Christianity and British history removed from children's dictionary in UK. Some liberals flat-out angry with Obama. Obama team runs to HuffPo to ...

How Not to Stem Criticism From Obama’s Left Flank
Comments from Left Field — ... : poking a beehive with a sharp STFU stick isn’t gonna stop the buzzing. It’s just gonna get your dumb ass ...

Liberals voice concerns about Obama
Flopping Aces — ... ever a point when we can get an actual Democratic administration?” Even supporters make clear they’re on the lookout for backsliding. “There’s a concern that he keep his basic promises and people are going to watch him,” said Roger Hickey, a co-founder of Campaign for America’s Future. Obama insists he hasn’t abandoned the goals that made him feel to some like a liberal savior. But the left’s bill of particulars against Obama is long, and growing. link color me shocked-SHOCKED I SAY! ...

Transition News 12/08
The Stump — ... Court declines to hear Obama's citizenship case. Eric Shinseki, who doubted Iraq strategy, tapped for veterans affairs. Obama supports laid-off Illinois workers occupying a factory. How Obama can influence the federal judicial bench. Slate describes the two changes Gates wants to bring to the Pentagon. Obama urges for an auto bailout, and could have power over the funding. Liberals feel left out of the Cabinet ...

Will Media Report Obama Going Back On Campaign Promises?
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... With this in mind, Politico published a list of campaign promises the president-elect has already gone back on -- or appears to be in the process of doing so -- Monday that an honest media, despite their complicity in getting him elected, should be aggressively reporting if getting the policies enacted were more important than getting the person they liked in the White House (h/t ...

Take That!
Jules Crittenden — ... Libs crow about Shinseki, Obama’s slap in the face to the hated Bushitler regime … at last! But first, libs voice concerns about Obama. Politico :  Liberals are growing increasingly nervous – and some just flat-out angry – that President-elect Barack Obama seems to be stiffing them on Cabinet jobs and policy choices. Obama has reversed pledges to immediately repeal tax cuts for the wealthy and take on Big Oil. He’s hedged his call for a quick drawdown in Iraq. And he’s stocking his White House with anything but stalwarts of the left. Now some are shedding a reluctance to ...

They got fooled again
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Maybe everyone got fooled in this election.  The Right believed as the Left did that the nation elected a man who would pull American policy in as sharply a liberal direction as anything since the Carter administration.  After seeing most of Barack Obama’s selections for his Cabinet, however, the Left doesn’t get a sense of Carter deja vu as much as they detect a whiff of Bush : Liberals are growing increasingly nervous – and some just flat-out angry – that President-elect Barack Obama seems to be stiffing them on Cabinet jobs and policy choices. Obama has reversed pledges ...

Barcepundit (English edition) — ... IT DIDN'T LAST LONG: Liberals voice concerns about Obama. .

Sighs and Whispers
N/A — Sigh.  The Heretik is not alone in feeling left out. “{Obama] has confirmed what our suspicions were by surrounding himself with a centrist to right cabinet. But we do hope that before it’s all over we can get at least one authentic progressive appointment,” said Tim Carpenter, national director of the Progressive Democrats of America. OpenLeft blogger Chris Bowers went so far as to issue this plaintive plea: “Isn’t there ever a point when we can get an actual Democratic administration?” ...

Liberals to Obama: What’s up with your admin picks, policy shifts?
Sister Toldjah — ... hadn’t thrown “any bones to the progressive base” with his cabinet choices and admin staffers. I disagreed then and still do now over the assertion, but that may be because I’m a conservative who would have prefered picks that would be more in line with conservative viewpoints than liberals ones. That being said, with a few exceptions, I’m happy to admit that Obama hasn’t taken his administration to the far far left - not yet anyway. Which still has some on the left in quite a lather (via ...

If Libs Are Unhapy Now...
JustOneMinute — Per the Politico , liberals progressives are nervous about the current centrist drift of the Obama Administration. Their guy is backsliding on immediately repealing the Bush tax breaks for "the rich", has appointed a bunch of centrist appeasers to the Cabinet, is positioning himself for victory in Iraq rather than declaring defeat and blaming Bush, and is dropping the windfall profits tax no that Big Oil has foolishly relinquished its iron grip on the market and allowed the price to slide under $50/barrel. Hard times! But as hard as they are, wait until Obama tackles health ...

Corzine On Obama’s Appointments: They’re People Who Are ‘Pragmatists With A Progressive Agenda’
Think Progress — ... Politico reports that Barack Obama’s personnel selections are causing some consternation amongst progressives: “Liberals are growing increasingly nervous – and some just flat-out angry – that President-elect Barack Obama seems to be stiffing them on Cabinet jobs and policy choices.” ...

Don't Throw Me In The Briar Patch
Obsidian Wings — ... by publius It's a bit amusing to see all the conservative schadenfreude about progressive whining about Obama. McArdle, for instance, writes: He also wouldn't be president-elect without the drivers who piloted the campaign bus, but this is not a reason to make bus drivers the central concern of his new administration. Frankly, the knowledge that there are such lunatics out there, but that Obama is ignoring them, has heartened me greatly. Frankly, I think conservatives are falling for what is essentially ...

Left Have Buyer’s Remorse on Obama…
Stop The ACLU — ….because he isn’t as far left as they hoped! Liberals are growing increasingly nervous – and some just flat-out angry – that President-elect Barack Obama seems to be stiffing them on Cabinet jobs and policy choices. Obama has reversed pledges to immediately repeal tax cuts for the wealthy and take on Big Oil. He’s hedged his call for a quick drawdown in Iraq. And he’s stocking his White House with anything but stalwarts of the left. Now some are shedding a reluctance to puncture the liberal euphoria at being rid of President George W. Bush to say, in effect, that the new boss ...

Backpedalling
Six Meat Buffet — ... So Obama is proving to be a centrist, at least initally. I’m pleasantly surprised, but I guess liberals are too saavy to be caught off guard. ...

Betrayed
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days — So, the netroots finds out that "the new boss looks like the old boss." Who is actually surprised that the Left would allow itself to be taken for a ride like this? And who doesn't believe that the Obama Administration will be audacious enough to continue to ask the netroots and the Left in general to continue giving money and manpower while frustrating the Left on policy issues and making them like it? I mean, the seeds of this betrayal were sown when Obama did things like agree with the Bush Administration on the FISA reform bill this past summer. Did the netroots and the ...

Voters Remorse from the Left
PoliGazette — ... The liberal base and far-left are unhappy that they’re not getting the sufficiently liberal president they wanted.  Sorry to be snarky, but excuse me if I don’t give you my sympathy.  If you’d been paying attention during the election, you might have seen that the man you thought was going to bring about a renewal of completely leftist domestic policy and dovish foreign policy never existed.  Obama has never presented himself as a leftist ideoulouge and hardliner and it was quite apparent for a long time.  So why are you whining now? ...

Betrayed
RedState: Conservative News and Community — So, the netroots finds out that “the new boss looks like the old boss.” Who is actually surprised that the Left would allow itself to be taken for a ride like this? And who doesn’t believe that the Obama Administration will be audacious enough to continue to ask the netroots and the Left in general to continue giving money and manpower while frustrating the Left on policy issues and making them like it? I mean, the seeds of this betrayal were sown when Obama did things like agree with the Bush Administration on the FISA reform bill this past summer. ...

News Orgs: The Left Is Upset With Obama -- Even Though It Isn't
TPM Election Central — ... that the angst on the left is largely a fiction, adding that "the bigger, and a bit harder to dramatize, story is probably the one about how happy the left is with him." Yet Politico nonetheless felt obliged to run an entire piece claiming that liberals are monolithically "nervous" and "flat out angry" about Obama. ...

Closely Related Headlines
Sound Politics — Closely Related Headlines From the Politico: 1) Liberals voice concerns about Obama Mr. Hope & Change becoming the party of the centrist Democratic Establishment is not sitting well with a number of progressives. The discontent might be overstated for now, but it's lurking below the surface. If the liberal reaction to the Democratic Congress's attempts to govern after 2006 is any indicator, such grumpiness is likely to get worse before it gets better (if at all). 2) ...

Really?
Daily Kos — Politico's Carol E. Lee and Nia-Malika Henderson make the following claim: Obama has reversed pledges to immediately repeal tax cuts for the wealthy I'd like to see evidence of him making such a pledge, because I haven't found it. The closest that I've seen is this op-ed by Jason Furman and Austan Goolsbee, but it doesn't say anything about 'immediate' repeal. If I recall correctly, since early 2007 Obama has supported repealing the tax cuts by allowing them to expire. A review of 11 New York Times articles ...

ChangeWatch
Stones Cry Out — ... All this added to Obama’s waffling on tax cuts, windfall profits taxes on Big Oil, and FISA.  Now, I have no illusion that Obama has become some sort of bedrock conservative (though he’s been seen ...

Why Progressives are different than Conservatives and how the media misses this point
Crooks and Liars — ... (including this blog) have written about many of the differences we have had with the Obama administration up to this point, and to me that's not surprising. That's kind of the point, and that's something that we can do quite well. Keeping our eye on what I feel should be the agenda moving forward is not something C&L takes likely and neither does the rest of the left-wing blogosphere, but what I find fascinating is that if we do break from the Obama administration, the media act like it's a major source of news. ...

100 days: What Obama does not want you to read
Patterico's Pontifications — ... .  Even before he was elected, he broke his promises to immediately repeal tax cuts for the wealthy and take on Big Oil (though one suspects they are still on his “to do” list). ...