Another Reason the Left Should Just Suck It Up [View all]

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Another Reason the Left Should Just Suck It Up
By Charles P. Pierce
at 11:20AM

I have my differences with the president, Lord knows. I hope to continue to have them for the next four years. There are a number of reasons for this, primary among them the fact that I don't think I'd like the looks of the what's left of the executive bureaucracy when President Romneybot and Vice President Cabana Boy get through with it. And I don't want the Supreme Court moved so far to the right that it inconveniences people reading in the Library Of Congress down the block.

(By the way, did you notice that, the other night, Willard went to a fundraiser at Dick Cheney's house and pronounced that evil sack of flesh to be exactly what he's looking for in a veep? If we hadn't looked forward, and we'd "relitigated" the previous eight years just a tad — I want to hit Axelrod with a pie every time he says that — the president's campaign might could've made an issue of Romney's praise for a truly horrid man. Like I said, I have my differences.)

Case in point: a judge from the NLRB whacked Target around for engaging in tactics during a union election that would've embarrassed Vladimir Putin. Anybody want to guess how this all would've worked out under the Romney administration?

Thought so.

Of course, and here's my bow to what Robert Gibbs calls "the professional Left," if the administration hadn't taken a dive on the Employee Free Choice Act, Target wouldn't have been able to blackjack this election the way it did. Politics is hard


Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/romney-cabinet-woes-9090975#ixzz1vkZO4KZn