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You guys deserve a cabinet of your choosing. As indicated in prior posts, I voted for McCain/Palin at the top, but Democrats otherwise this year, because I figured my favorite VP nominee of all time would probably lose, and we might as well let the liberals run the show for awhile (also, my democratic congressional candidate was vaguely pro-life, so I could live with myself in doing so). Now, here you folks are getting 58-60 Senate seats, and unhappy the appointments are not far enough left. Honestly, I think you deserve to get your way. Why shouldn't you?
Of course, the news for leftists is even worse. If Congress lacks the guts to raise taxes, and goes on a borrow and spending spree instead, how does that relate to Dick Cheney's boast that deficits don't matter? As long as the economy is in peril (which is always, from a politician's perspective), just borrow, borrow, spend, spend away. Without new tax revenue, you won't get national health care or anything else on the agenda. Of course, you'll get pro-Roe replacements to the Supreme Court, but unless a conservative steps down, that will just be status quo, not change.
