TW: I mentioned right after the election that the left-wing blogosphere would be the first wing to get sideways with Obama. The Lieberman situation is bringing this to reality. This episode demonstrates why places like the Daily Kos are great for grassroot efforts and idea generation but not at actually governing. Below is an immature, whiny, vindicative post which articulates why if one were to have idealogues run things, little would get done and the left would run our country into a ditch perhaps less seamy than the idealogues on the right but a ditch nonetheless.
Obama getting the left-wing idealogues riled is a good sign, it means he is doing his job. And while I condemn Kos' post it is nothing compared to the vitriol that will eventually emerge from the right.
From Kos himself at the Daily Kos:
"Since Barack Obama apparently made clear that he didn't want any purges in the Senate, and had his faithful Senate lieutenants Durbin and Kerry deliver that message to the Democratic caucus, can we assume that the same applies for the executive branch -- you know, the branch of government that Obama will actually lead?
Since he doesn't want "purges" to be the order of the day, perhaps he'll make sure to keep the thousands of Bush appointees in their respective offices, from Cabinet secretaries on down? That would only be consistent with his meddling in the Senate.
So Paulson and Rice and Gates and the rest of that crowd will apparently stay on, as will countless of other political appointees down the list? Sorry Hillary. No Secretary of State for you. Can't be seen as holding grudges!
Elections have consequences, one of them being that the victors get to get to carry out the will of the voters. So if the public rejects Bush, McCain, the war in Iraq, and incompetence during Katrina, then the incoming government gets to remove those who enabled the policies that have been rejected.
So no "purge" in the Senate? Great. Let's see Obama maintain that ideal in the executive branch.
And p.s., notice that none of the people defending Lieberman -- Kerry, Durbin, Cardin, T. Udall -- are up for reelection next year. Coincidence?"
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