Just Get On Board Republicans.

Fortunately not all Republicans exhibit Boner’s Pavlovian reflex.  There are many good Real Conservatives (not the NeoCoNazi type) that are able to control their political autonomous responses and will crew the ship of state for the sake of America.

AZMod would roundly condemn a Bush appointee who leveraged their government contacts and connections as a lobbyist to engineer the merger of 2 large businesses in a regulated industry, who sat on the board of a government backed agency collecting bonuses based on cooking the books while gobbling up bad mortgage paper. No doubt AZMod would treat us to bunches of animated emoticon criticisim for a Republican who called the CEO of the company he used to lobby for to get permission to take the government appointment. We'd hear again about the Republican culture of corruption when we found out the CEO was in the midst of trying to get regulatory approval to form the largest company in the industry.

But nooo, this is a Dimocrat selected by he-of-the-pristine-judgement. Rancorous partisan, unimportant, lobbyist for Exelon, doesn't matter, confidant of a CEO with a case before government regulators, irrelevant, Freddie Mac board member, trivial.

AZMod demands we check our critical thinking on the dock before we board the Dear Leader's ship of state. Sorry, I will not be joining the cult. 

AZWinger, AZ Moderate does not require anyone to check their critical thinking at the door.  Quite the opposite: AZ Moderate encourages you and himself and everyone else to think critically. 

I like Obama’s style and rational approach.  I am on the one hand perplexed by his stacking the ranks with Clinton old-timers.  On the other hand, if he can form them into a team all pulling in the same direction, they will be powerful workhorses, regular government Clydesdales!  Whether or not he is going to drive them in the right direction remains to be seen. 

Now the Dimocrats on the other hand …  We gotta get them under control!

Yes, and I think that STARTS with criticism of Emanual, who's loyalties apparently lie with Zionists...who are more akin to NeoCONS than Constitutional America..

And a throwback to Clinton's administration.

Emanuel is Obama's first high-level appointment and it's one likely to disappoint those who hoped the president-elect would break with the George W. Bush Administration's pro-Israel policies. White House Chief of Staff is often considered the most powerful office in the executive branch, next to the president. Obama has offered Emanuel the position according to Democratic party sources cited by media including Reuters and The New York Times. While Emanuel is expected to accept the post, that had not been confirmed by Wednesday evening the day after the election.

Rahm Emanuel was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1959, the son of Benjamin Emanuel, a pediatrician who helped smuggle weapons to the Irgun, the Zionist militia of former Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin, in the 1940s. The Irgun carried out numerous terrorist attacks on Palestinian civilians including the bombing of Jerusalem's King David Hotel in 1946.

Emanuel continued his father's tradition of active support for Israel; during the 1991 Gulf War he volunteered to help maintain Israeli army vehicles near the Lebanon border when southern Lebanon was still occupied by Israeli forces.

As White House political director in the first Clinton administration, Emanuel orchestrated the famous 1993 signing ceremony of the "Declaration of Principles" between Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. Emanuel was elected to Congress representing a north Chicago district in 2002 and he is credited with a key role in delivering a Democratic majority in the 2006 mid-term elections. He has been a prominent supporter of neoliberal economic policies on free trade and welfare reform.

One of the most influential politicians and fundraisers in his party, Emanuel accompanied Obama to a meeting of AIPAC's executive board just after the Illinois senator had addressed the pro-Israel lobby's conference last June.

In Congress, Emanuel has been a consistent and vocal pro-Israel hardliner, sometimes more so than President Bush. In June 2003, for example, he signed a letter criticizing Bush for being insufficiently supportive of Israel. "We were deeply dismayed to hear your criticism of Israel for fighting acts of terror," Emanuel, along with 33 other Democrats wrote to Bush. The letter said that Israel's policy of assassinating Palestinian political leaders "was clearly justified as an application of Israel's right to self-defense" ("Pelosi supports Israel's attacks on Hamas group," San Francisco Chronicle, 14 June 2003).

In July 2006, Emanuel was one of several members who called for the cancellation of a speech to Congress by visiting Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki because al-Maliki had criticized Israel's bombing of Lebanon. Emanuel called the Lebanese and Palestinian governments "totalitarian entities with militias and terrorists acting as democracies" in a 19 July 2006 speech supporting a House resolution backing Israel's bombing of both countries that caused thousands of civilian victims.
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