It's a great day to be a liberal

It's always a great day to be a liberal rt! :thumbsup: Some days are more frustrating and disheartening than others, but it beats the alternative!

However, I agree that the choice of Daley seems a very bad move. I do not want someone who's got "close Wall St. ties", is a VP of JP Morgan, and opposed the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as Chief of Staff. Yet another show that Obama is still waffling, pandering to the right and corporate interests. This opinion piece sums it up for me: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-k ... daley.html

His major qualification for the job is that he's extremely well liked by the business community, in part because he routinely advocates for their interests and in part because he's a top executive at J.P. Morgan. His theory of politics is that the Democratic Party has become too liberal and needs to tack right.

Or maybe the answer is that the Obama administration has simply decided to tack right, and they figure the way to do that is to hire someone who legitimately believes that tacking right is a good idea. The particular theory of politics he espouses seems woefully detached from the realities of the modern partisan environment -- as Jon Chait says, it effectively means "allowing extreme positions to redefine the parameters of the debate."

The Dems haven't become too liberal, they've become too corrupt, same as Reps. And a banker ain't gonna fix that problem.

Death...or conservitude?

Hmm, sounds awfully extreme. Surely there must be some intervention that is effective?