THERE IS HYSTERIA, THERE IS AGONY, THERE IS SUFFERING – AT 7:35 P.M. ET:  I urge you all to look up your local Red Cross chapter, so that you may make a contribution to the pained and frightened liberal bloggers, whose medical condition is precarious.  Why?  Because President Obama named a new chief of staff who symbolizes everything in the old Democratic Party that the libs despise.  From The Politico:

President Barack Obama on Thursday introduced William Daley as his new chief of staff, tapping a political heavyweight with an unusual combination of high-level experience both in the business world and in Washington to oversee the White House as it grapples with a more Republican Congress and prepares for the president’s expected re-election campaign in 2012.

At a brief East Room ceremony Thursday afternoon, Obama described Daley, a former Commerce secretary who currently works as a senior executive at America’s largest bank, as “an experienced public servant, a devoted patriot, my friend and fellow Chicagoan.”

He is also the brother of the mayor of Chicago, and a symbol, by name and family, of one of the most powerful, and old-fashioned, political machines in the country.

Daley’s selection was immediately hailed by business groups. But reaction among liberal Democrats was more mixed, with some predicting Daley would bring a breath of fresh air to Obama’s insular White House operation and others fretting that the new chief of staff’s centrist politics herald a shift to the right in Obama policies.

And...

“With Wall Street reporting record profits while middle class Americans continue to struggle in a deep recession, the announcement that William Daley, who has close ties to the Big Banks and Big Business, will now lead the White House staff is troubling and sends the wrong message to the American people,” Justin Ruben of MoveOn.Org said. “Americans are looking to the White House for economic plans that will create jobs and reign in Wall Street’s excesses, and it’s up to Daley to prove that he’s not carrying water in the White House for the big banks that took our economy over the cliff.”

COMMENT:  Did we ever think we'd see the day when Barack Hussein Obama Jr. would drive the left nuts?  Is this a conversion, worthy of ecclesiastical note, by our president?

I don't think so.  I think it's a maneuver, a fake to the center to position himself to win back independents for 2012.  The thinking probably is, "The left has nowhere else to go.  But without the center, we lose."  That's reasonable thinking, but, considering the adolescent nature of the left, it's also risky thinking.  They are professional whiners, who might well stay home in 2012 rather than cast their vote for the impure, Daley-whipped Obama.  They did that in 1968 and cost Hubert Humphrey, a liberal's liberal, the presidency.

The leftist Dems in Congress probably feel very much alone right now.  Their health plan covers psychiatry.

January 6, 2011