not enough pasty white guys…. :~)

I’ll repeat what I said earlier about this appointment:

New SecAg = full speed ahead with the ethanol sham/scam, more BigAg subsidies, more Frankenfood and associated patents

God knows, pasty middle-aged straight white guys have been totally underrepresented by our government.

That’s what makes this not-enough-Republicans complaint particularly galling, that so many of Obama’s appointments might as well be Republicans.

Duh…who is Gates? A communist??!!

Yes, but he’s only *one* (non-registered) Republican. Apparently Obama’s supposed to have at least three.

I feel so….disenfranchised. (not that I’m copping to full-on pasty-ness, mind you)

Besides, Gates doesn’t count because everyone knows that only Republicans are tough enough to be SecDef.

I was really hoping that we’d get a leg up on banning GM food. Guess not.

Gimme about ten years, and I will totally look like I could be in government.

disgruntled Repubs are looking on e-Harumphony

And who did NPR go to to comment on Obama’s pick
for Secretary of Education? Republican apparatchik Chester Finn of the Fordham Foundation.

Next up: Obama is betraying the people’s trust unless he hires
Patrick Ruffini to run the executive branch’s websites.

a waist is a terrible thing to mind.

After Gates has outlived his usefullness I want Frieda Berrigan as SecDef.

Of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most. Mick Jagger.

Ha ha ha. I am disappointed and disgusted. Har har. I am disillusioned and feel used and violated… hehehheh…

The only thing that is not funny is the continuing GOP bad faith, which gets badder by the day. I read the article and the only reason that Gates does not quailify as a Republican is that he is not officialy registered as such. But he considers himself Repbulican. Why is that not good enough to quality Gates as a Republican? Is it perhaps his competence? Leaving aside any other objections one may have, Gates is certainly conmpetent and knows what he is doing -maybe that is the problem for the GOP officialdome left standing (or sitting).

The GOP criticism of Obama is based on tendentious and convenient technicalities, and nothing more.

Seems to me that the GOP is being very picky and very partisan in their attack on Obama for not being non-partisan enough, and that, I say, disgusts and revolts me to my very bones. My very bones, I say!

If Obama wants to be non-partisan, let him appoint Ron Paul to something -supervisor of Fort Knox, maybe. At least you can trust Paul to be honest.

so many of Obama’s appointments might as well be Republicans.

the only acceptable democrats are republican?

I like that idea. Paul as chair of the Jennings Bryant Cross of Gold Memorial Commission ;-)

Gates actually does qualify against the McClellan standard of Non-Democratic-Party-Member, and I believe there is an informal tradition of placing *one* representative of the opposing party in the Cabinet. For a Republican president, it’s usually a minor position like Transportation, and for a Democratic president it’s usually… SecDef.

But apparently Obama promised to go above and beyond this tradition and install multiple Republicans in his Cabinet and/or staff, in the interests of unity or something like that. I shudder at the thought of any department being subjected to 12 or 16 straight years of Republican hollowing out.

If you haven’t heard…Hannity is disgusted too. He says Obama is trying to scare everyone, using fear, that is, to get his way…because that’s what politicians do…Manipulate us fools with big fear to get what they want. Wonder if Hannity ever thought lil’ W was doing any such thing?

I was wondering whether Obama could create, say, a Secretary of Lightbulb Changing position for a Republican appointee, or if that would still be too risky.

Change we can believe in. Yea right

You have got to be kidding me.

Actually, in my post last Friday, I pointed to the fact that Obama is emphatically *not* scaremongering on the potential impacts of the auto industry collapsing.

(Of course, in this case, “scaremongering” and unvarnished truth-telling would be nigh-indistinguishable…)

Nope…a huge rant. Obviously I couldn’t listen to it all, dontchaknow?

well, he did promise rethug appointees didn’t he? perhaps he’s thinking about a long slew of third tier ambassadorships. Fiji, Nauru, Barbados, Luxembourg…. kind of like czars appointing their worst enemies to run mail posts in Siberia

I dunno, those first three sound kinda pleasant and tropical. Surely there are some low-risk countries with horrible climates and appalling food?

Vilsack and Salazar are both Republicans(Yeah, both are DLC .. but I consider DLC to be Rockefeller Republicans).

Moldava. The ex-Yugoslavs minus Slovenia. Then theres always the Central Asian ‘Stans.

In earlier drafts, that last sentence was actually “The not-quite-Republican nightmare continues,” but I wanted to focus more on the ridiculousness of the we-need-more-Republicans-in-the-Obama-administration argument.

But yes, that is one of the reasons *why* that argument is ridiculous.

Dugg

Where did you hear that? Look, I did a lot of precinct work for Obama and other Dems, and I heard in the Fox news that we Obama supporters would be getting… you know… lotsa nice stuff from The Man. I got a nice vacation rich man’s house in Hawaii picked out I saw in a magazine article, and I was thinking about ambassador to Seychelles Monte Carlo, or somthing like that.

But so far… I have heard… not one damn thing. Sent in a bunch of e-mails asking when I could move in and have heard not one damn thing.

So, there is more than just the no trueblue GOPer in the cabinet going on. Obama is NOT keeping his promises.

How long will it take for Cheney to go down?

My last comments was supposed to be in response to this outrage from Blub @26.

“well, he did promise rethug appointees didn’t he? perhaps he’s thinking about a long slew of third tier ambassadorships. Fiji, Nauru, Barbados, Luxembourg…. kind of like czars appointing their worst enemies to run mail posts in Siberia”

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Some GOP person gets a spot in Fiji and I am stuck here, there will be heck to pay.

Obama must be able to get to the FoX viewers. Those people are nutcases…just spoke with my aunt.

I have no idea. All I do know for sure is that it will be natural causes.

We could do without Arnold in CA. Arnold is a registered Republican.

Is there a Deptarment of Weighttraining he could appoint Arnold too?

Actually AS might actually be good as a cabinet secretary. He looks sort of pooped out CA Gubernatorwise.

Didn’t he used to be some kind of Presidential Fitness Adviser or something like that? Maybe he could do that again, or maybe he could be Surgeon General.

Great, now I’m picturing Ahnold with that Amish-looking C. Everett Koop beard, talking about masturbation. Man, was that a mistake.

New post—

David Iglesias – Hispanic, Republican, Attorney General

Seems to me that he has already appointed Republicans albeit they aren’t registered or are registered Democrats in name only. At such a critical time Obama’s shift to center-right to pro-corporate-rich right may be the final betrayal leading America to be a failed state.

And the looting goes on and on…