Liberals Already Compaining About Obama

It would suck to have to be beholden to these people. I mean Obama has not even taken the oath of office and they have already started to complain about his cabinet picks and him being pragmatic on some issues.

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.

Why would he repeal tax cuts when the economy is in a recession? Herbet Hoover was great at that. Also how can you go after Big Oil now that oil prices are $45 a barrel? The "windfall profits tax" only works when there are "windfall profits."

I just don't understand the "progressive" agenda. Why do they want to throw us into another great depression and tax companies for something that they have almost no control over? It can't be to "get Bush" so I guess they just want Obama to have a harder time trying to right the economic ship.We also have a status of forces agreement that gets us out of Iraq no matter what. A "responsible" drawdown is what the generals want and Obama knows that. Do they really want to lose the war that badly at this point?

I found this part especially funny:

“At his announcement of an economic team there was no secretary of labor. If you don’t think the labor secretary is on the same level as treasury secretary, that gives me pause,” said Jonathan Tasini, who runs the website workinglife.org. “The president-elect wouldn't be president-elect without labor."

I think someone should tell this guy that the Big 3 Automakers would not need a bailout if they were non-Union like the Japanese automakers. The job bank paying people not to work and that $2000 markup on each US car is the direct result of the power of American labor unions run amok.

The Secretary of Labor is a joke compared to a guy that controls $700 billion in bailout money, the fate of millions of 401Ks, and the fate of the world economy. A bunch of union elections can wait until the world credit markets are off of life support and we have sorted our own economy out. Hell, Obama is already giving a huge sop to the heavily unionized construction industry in the form of the 2nd stimulus package.