Left’s freakout over Daley appointment turning enjoyably hysterical

“The appointment of the obscene corporate hack William Daley should put to rest any and all illusions people have on the Obama administration,” wrote progressive political consultant Joe Costello to his listserv of likeminded progressives within hours of the announcement that the JP Morgan executive would be replacing Rahm Emanuel as White House chief of staff…

“If you want to get some traffic on this one,” a former senior House aide told The Observer, “make your angle ‘Obama’s Fixers to End the New Deal.’ They are going to dismantle Social Security. I guarantee it. And he won’t suffer any push-back. But Obama is the extremist here; he is the wing nut. There’s been a total collapse of political power on the left. The left is not even at the table, and they don’t even realize it. You can’t blame the voters. In 2006 they voted out the party of endless war and corporate bailouts. In 2008 they voted out the party of endless war and corporate bailouts. And in 2010 they voted out the party of endless war and corporate bailouts.”

“These people are as clueless as World War I generals,” wrote Harper’s Magazine columnist Thomas Frank to The Observer in an email. “They have no idea what’s going on in the country or how to deal with it. They just take the advice of long-discredited Washington experts and political scientists. There is nothing original or inventive about them, and I am almost ashamed that I ever thought there was.”