Some conservatives have responded with their usual grace and wisdom to Obama's post-partisan inclusiveness when it comes to his appointments -- they've criticized him for including people who might be considered liberal. More after the jump ...
In today's Washington Post, we learn that conservative Roger Clegg is mightily worried:
"It is disturbing," said Roger Clegg, a conservative opponent of Lee's appointment who is now watching the Obama advisers at the Justice Department. "The transition team as described to me was made up of nothing but people on the far left. Though Obama is more moderate, that makes you wonder what kind of advice the president is given, and what range of choices he'll be given when it comes time to make appointments."
One of these "far left" advisers include "Roberta Achtenberg, a gay activist whose confirmation as an assistant housing secretary was famously held up by then-Sen. Jesse Helms", evidently because he decided she was a "militant-activist-mean lesbian". Another "far left" adviser was Bill Lann Lee -- opposed by the aforementioned Clegg "in 1997, when Clinton proposed Lee, a Chinese American civil rights lawyer, to be the Justice Department's assistant attorney general for civil rights." Oddly, the Post neglects to mention that Roger Clegg is the President of the Center for Equal Opportunity [sic], which fights against "racial quotas" by the government, presumably preferring that racial quotas be handled the old-fashioned private-sector way, which no doubt worked much better for Clegg and his allies.
(Credit where credit is due, I suppose: Clegg was the only one of the "staunch conservatives" who allowed the Post to use his name. No doubt the rest preferred to stand on their convictions in the shadows.)
Other "far left" Obama advisers mentioned in the article were William V. Corr and John Leshy.
Corr is "a vocal tobacco-control activist" who is such a radical lefty that he "attacked the Bush administration in 2006 for weakening the government's prosecution of tobacco companies". Meanwhile, Leshy showed his liberal leanings by calling for "strict interpretations of mining law".