Posted by
Patrick Henry on Friday, December 19, 2008 7:33:39 PM
The wimpy whining and flatulant bleating from the far left has been almost incessant
since the president-elect began assembling his cabinet. Lefty blogger Chris Bowers
pouts that Obama's retention of Republican Gates as Defense Secretary shows that
"even Democrats don't think Democrats can run the military." (DUH!) The wailing
chorus swelled as Obama tabbed anti-gay marriage evangelical pastor Rick Warren
for the inaugural invocation and another Republican, Representative LaHood for
Secretary of Transportation.
Such a baleful cacophany reveals a number of personality disorders within the
far left of the Democratic party. First, they are obviously hearing challenged. Obama
said with some regularity that if elected he planned to "govern from the center." His
chief of staff designate, Represntative Rahm Emanuel reiterated as much during the
intial phase of cabinet selection. Did the lefties think Obama was lying, or that once
in power he would revert to his true liberal inclinations?
Second, they seemed to believe the fantasy that in a Democracy the winners really
do get to take all -- that with Obama elected the liberals can enact their full agenda
immediately and without obstruction. They are celebrating for themselves the very
same trait they most hated in the Bush administration. It seems that Barack Obama
is smarter than his party. He also knows he has to run again in four years. So the
bald-faced socialists, gay activists, labor unions, etc. may NOT get everything they
hoped for -- at least not anytime soon. And if Obama's sage centrism isn't enough,
Democrats failed to achieve their coveted supermajority in the Senate when Saxby
Chambliss thrashed Jim Martin in the Georgia runoff. Too bad, how sad. I find
myself getting all choked up for them.
Finally, and most revealing of all, the left betrays its disdain for democracy and
bares its raw lust for the power of an oligarcy. In addition to being repulsive, such
an attitude is both naive and stupid. In the last analysis, Americans are their own
leaders. They have temporarily bestowed the mantle of their trust on Barack Obama,
and so far he looks as though he is respecting that trust. But no one voted for the
left wing blog, the Daily Kos, the Huffington Post or Moveon.org, and the quickest
way for Barack Obama to squander that trust is to cater exclusively to those left-
wing nut cases. His early actions, though sorely disappointing to them, shows good
faith with the entire electorate and the promise of a temperate, balanced administration.
I wonder what the country would be like today if George W. Bush had taken that
approach?