Team Barry begins to throw the Chicago machine under the bus
And in the process, they contradict themselves … twice. Jake Tapper reports:
Liberals to Obama: What’s up with your admin picks, policy shifts?
As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, staunch liberals were showing signs of frustration over their belief that Obama hadn’t thrown “any bones to the progressive base” with his cabinet choices and admin staffers. I disagreed then and still do now over the assertion, but that may be because I’m a conservative who would have prefered picks that would be more in line with conservative viewpoints than liberals ones. That being said, with a few exceptions, I’m happy to admit that Obama hasn’t taken his administration to the far far left – not yet anyway. Which still has some on the left in quite a lather (via Memeo):
Now, here’s a shocker
The Washington Times reports this morning that the positive press coverage Obama received in this election has set a record:
Obama’s director of speechwriting caught in, er, compromising position
… or something like that, anyway. Wonder how well this photo will sit with the Hillary Clintonites/PUMA crowd?