Who Do You Want Running Things?

TW: Doves who would have conservatives attacking any move they try to make. Or, moderates led by a pragmatist so that when they make dovish moves they can tell the conservatives to go pound. The left-wing of the Dem party is already getting into a tizzy but they are foolish. The last thing Obama should do is appoint doves into key leadership positions. You need one dove, the POTUS, the rest will follow and if he is executing his plans with moderates he stands a far better chance to actually implement real change with a leftward tilt. Idealogues never get these things and burn up precious political capital in the process.

I will repeat to the extent the loudest shrieking and moaning during the transition comes from the left the better, if so the Republicans should really get scared that a locomotive will run them over legislatively in February.

From LA Times:
"Reporting from Washington -- Antiwar groups and other liberal activists are increasingly concerned at signs that Barack Obama's national security team will be dominated by appointees who favored the Iraq invasion and hold hawkish views on other important foreign policy issues...

The activists -- key members of the coalition that propelled Obama to the White House -- fear he is drifting from the antiwar moorings of his once-longshot presidential candidacy. Obama has eased the rigid timetable he had set for withdrawing troops from Iraq, and he appears to be leaning toward the center in his candidates to fill key national security posts. The president-elect has told some Democrats that he expects to take heat from parts of his political base but will not be deterred by it....

It's astonishing that not one of the 23 senators or 133 House members who voted against the war is in the mix," said Sam Husseini of the liberal group Institute for Public Accuracy..."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/complete/la-na-foreign-policy20-2008nov20,0,2687012.story