Vilsack is yet another horrible pick…

It looks like Obama has FINALLY made some good picks with his science advisers though. John Holdren and Jane Lubchenco may be about the only decent selections we get out of him. Considering the way the rest of this administration is shaping up, I wonder if they’ll be able to get anything done.

I was never really an Obama supporter. But, yes, I am surprised, by things like his appoints ( I know theyre not appointed yet, ok?!)—Vilsack, Chu,Summers, Volcker, Warner…

Yes, I am surprised that, there is not ONE , even, “sortve” progressive, in the bunch.

Hell, theyre not even moderates.

” You gotta dance with the one who brung ya ”

Well we tossed the dice on the mystery man and it came up snake eyes. Is anyone really surprised? It’s over for this country. Rather than bringing in the brightest experts on economic or ecological issues, he’s sticking with the same creeps that got us here. No “thinking out of the box” allowed.

You know, the one thing I sortve “hung onto”, as to where we might stop the “pay for play”, was what Obama had said about subsidies for huge agri-business. No, I am NOT talking about “family farms”—all the ones I grew up with have been gobbled up by agri-business!

I was hoping for someone who would address biofuels (driving up food prices), the pollution of huge animal business (and the cruelty!), all the sickness it causes…and some of the causes of US early death.

I never dreamed we would get a preacher connected with the Right! Where the hell is Rev. Wright?? (who looks rather good these days!) Salazar had the balls to wear his fricking cowbosy hat!! I THOUGHT WE WOULD BE THROUGH with that for awhile , with an Af Am from Chicago!! Salizar’s “record” is abysmal. DO NOT say that this is “what people should have expected”! Bullshit! I dont believe that any Obama supporters expected this at all…

There is not anything even close to a “progressive” in the bunch.

What do we have, a Blue Dog from Chicago??

Dems can say anythign they want. This is absurd—even for a Dem!

Vilsack is bad news, he’s a supporter and friend of big agri business, and also of genetic enegineering of food.

Vilsack’s nomination is an endorsment of dangerous, untested, and unlabeled genetically engineered crops.

It’s backward thinking, at a time when an environmentally sound policy of sustainable agriculture should be developed, and it’s a dangerous portent of things to come for the Obama administration.

The backlash against Salazar is already starting - and reported in the MSM, no less!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/us/politics/18salazarcnd.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

Peace.

I know that Vilsack supported Hillary Clinton in the primary but he is the super-darling of the “ethanol-crowd” which contributed gobs of money to the Obama campaign. Is this play-for-pay Chicago style?

Well, Vilsack may or may not be a great pick, but Salazar is a nightmare!  Here is just a short list:

-Friend and supporter of Alberto Gonzales

-Supported Joe Lieberman over Ned Lamont

-Actively opposed endangered species listing for black-tailed prairie dog

-Voted against the CAFE fuel standards for cars and trucks

-Voted to end protections re offshore drilling in Florida’s Gulf Coast

-Voted against a bill that would require the Army Corp of Engineers to consider global warming when planning water projects

-Has a 60% rating from the Defenders of Wilderness, a 25% rating by the Humane Society of the U.S., and a 0% rating from the Fund for Animals

And that’s just the Wiki stuff!  I’m sure there is even more if his Senate voting record is checked.

What was Obama thinking in choosing another James Watt for Sec’y of the Interior?!

Peace.