Yep. Liberals are Still Pissed (tm)
And y'know, it doesn't bother me a lot... from what I'm reading online and seeing on CNN and other news network shows (yes, even Fox network), the "progressives" (the artists formerly known as "Liberals"), mostly they're ranging from irate to pissed as hell over Obama cabinet choices; what they are ignoring is the history.

Back in the Bush-League Years, the liberal agenda went something like this:

* Get the USA out of Iraq
* Close Guantanamo Bay
* Disavow torture as interrogation policy
* Replace unilateral militarism with diplomatic multilateralism
* Ending Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy
* Advocating economic investments such as pump-priming spending on infrastructure
* Tighter regulations on High-Finance exploiters, cheats, and scoundrels.

Given the clusterfuck of the Cheney/Rumsfeld Hand Puppet President, those positions are no longer the dreams of the Lunatic Left (or as Fox network refers to them "non-Serious People", as all the Serious People supported the war in Iraq and embraced the necessity of gutting civil rights and using torture), these are now centrist consensus.

The center has moved left.

As regards Iraq - the Surge, the change in tactics, the Iraqi recognition that temporary cease-fires get the Americans the fuck out of Dodge earlier VS alliances with foreign forces (Iran and AQ) who will never leave if they get entrenched, American bribes to take the Iraq government's side, etc - all of it worked to one degree or another, and allowed Bush to do what he'd vowed NEVER to do for the previous six - agree to a timeline for withdrawal. He put the best face on it, but the agreement is there, and signed and approved, regardless of the statements of his own commanders that the peace and situation is excessively fragile.

Bush did what Carter did; his policies were such failures that he managed to push the nation the other way in opposition.

Meanwhile, the Left and Unions and more lunatic special interest groups feel betrayed.

QQ Moar.