No Purges

[Gold Metal Flake]

From Kos

Since Barack Obama apparently made clear that he didn't want any purges in the Senate, and had his faithful Senate lieutenants Durbin and Kerry deliver that message to the Democratic caucus, can we assume that the same applies for the executive branch -- you know, the branch of government that Obama will actually lead?

Since he doesn't want "purges" to be the order of the day, perhaps he'll make sure to keep the thousands of Bush appointees in their respective offices, from Cabinet secretaries on down? That would only be consistent with his meddling in the Senate.

So Paulson and Rice and Gates and the rest of that crowd will apparently stay on, as will countless of other political appointees down the list? Sorry Hillary. No Secretary of State for you. Can't be seen as holding grudges!

Elections have consequences, one of them being that the victors get to get to carry out the will of the voters. So if the public rejects Bush, McCain, the war in Iraq, and incompetence during Katrina, then the incoming government gets to remove those who enabled the policies that have been rejected.

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[lpbk2713]

1. He will, however, need to make a thorough housecleaning at the Justice Dept.

To get all those BushCo stooges and Falwell College grads out of there.

[RelativelyJones]

2. Love Kos, but he's wrong here

Obama's got his eye on the prize. Lieberman's an infuriating ass who should lose in 2012, but right now is one more Dem vote for the freight train agenda O is looking to enact. Why chase him to the Republicans when they've got him by the balls? Hell, with a little luck, his vote just might be the 60th.

[Democrats_win]

3. My kind of purge would be called McCarthyism.

I suppose to go much further than cabinet positions we would need to employ McCarthyism. They purged liberals and homosexuals from our government in the 1950s. They did it deliberately. That fact remains hidden under the rug but that's what it was.

We can't and won't do that, but I like to think that it would be nice to purge our government of conservatives. But we ARE better than them. We will succeed even with them working against America.

[Gold Metal Flake]

4. Investigating wrong doing by the way-ups is a way to purge.

Look at all the toadies we know about because of Abramoff and Lurita Doan and others. Lieberman will help provide cover of the cubical cockroaches so that they can take leadership rolls later. Remember that in the Nixon administration, Rove was a cockroach.