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Avoiding The Tough Fights
Open Left - Front Page —
... pieces of legislation were already passed by at least one chamber in Congress, but blocked because Bush was President. In other words, they are the lowest hanging fruit possible. The same also goes for withdrawing from Iraq, which Obama pledged to do today. Withdrawal legislation was first passed through Congress 19 months ago, and thus there won't be any serious opposition to it now, either.
Picking Gates is in line with this desire to avoid fights early in Obama's tenure. David Corn:
Second, Gates is no agent of change when it comes to the Pentagon ...
Starry Eyed Again
N/A —
... Okay, Gates stays. He’s now Obama’s bipartisan defense bud. But what about all those others under him who were under Bush’s thumb? You know, the people you don’t know who spend all the defense dollars and prepare budgets which are out of control. Is the best way to gt on top of the budget holding onto the guy who holds onto the people who hold onto the dollars? ...
Hullabaloo — ... David Corn brings up the curious case of Robert Gates, who readers here know I'm not a fan of. He points out that Obama may believe that having a Republican in charge may insulate him from criticism from the right as he prepares to leave Iraq, and then lays out some of the current objections: ...
The Blue Pill
Mudville Gazette —
... Here's an interesting post at Mother Jones. Interesting because in it David Corn tries mightily to get his readers to take that blue pill, and wash it down with a draught of ice cold koolaid: ...
12/2: Outrage From The Left? Not Exactly...
Blogometer —
... that her foreign policy views are essentially the same as Obama's. For every blogger who questions Obama's decision to keep Robert Gates as Defense Sec., there's another who ...
