Those who are complaining about the appointment of Rahm Emanuel as President-Elect Obama’s chief of staff should chill out. I can’t think of any expression but “abysmally stupid” for the idea that this would be a bipartisan position. It’s a position for a loyalist with an arsenal.
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. . . but on target. I refer to this post on Pursuing Holiness. My own preference is that churches and religious organizations define marriage for their own constituents, and the state simply define households. Laura’s words about free speech destroying human rights committees are also on target.
Via FiveThirtyEight.com’s Significant Digits, which I read religiously and daily, I discovered the Timeline of the Far Future on Wikipedia. I am particularly concerned that in 600 million years C3 photosynthesis will become impossible.
Pres. Elect Obama won’t appoint many Republicans, and can’t be expected to do so. The appointment of Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff is at least a bit comforting to those of us concerned about a hard left shift; while Emanuel is a partisan, he is also a moderate from the Clinton Administration.
You know I could really care less if Obama’s administration is not bi-partisan. I mean on all the issues that he disagree with Republicans on I don’ want him to compromise. I want him to do what he said he would do and if that means he is not reaching across the aisles except on those issues that are not that partisan then I’m fine with that. I want to see some stuff actually get done in his administration. But that’s just me.
Bryan L
The difficulty that I would have here is that without compromise, very little will get passed. Do we want some accomplishments, or would we prefer many efforts, but no actual results? I believe that would be the choice.
Of course, I’m moderate by nature and would prefer that Obama govern more toward the center than his voting record would indicate.
I’m starting to hear complaints from some on the left that Emanuel isn’t extreme enough for this position. That’s probably a good sign.