A lot of huffing and puffing in recent weeks about what the President-Elect has been up to at his offices in Chicago.
"Why would he put a sexiest ego-maniac in the Treasury?"
"Hillary Clinton at State? She's gonna sabotage him and the country just to settle a cheap political score!!"
"Bob Gates?! Are you f**king kidding me!?!"
All the while we on the left are looking to him to simply enact all the things we want him to. To use his power to shove this country violently left-ward. Didn't we reject the notion of the unitary executive? So why do we want President Obama to be our lapdog the way Bush was a lapdog to the military-industrial complex, pharmaceutical companies and Wall Street? There are a lot of examples but I'd like to use this diary to illustrate my point.
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