Charles Pierce is right to be outraged after seeing President Obama appoint former Bush 43 Press Secretary Dana Perino to the Broadcasting Board of Governors. As Pierce writes over on Altercation:
I know it doesn't matter much in the great scheme of things, but it is wholly indicative of the ongoing frustration I have with President Civility and his Folding Commandos. Ms. Perino's checkered history as a hired obsfuscator has been well-documented in and around the web. (She compared the administration's criticism of Mr. Murdoch's Toy News Network to something "dictators" would do and this from a woman who didn't know what the Cuban Missile Crisis was.) The president is doing Mitch McConnell a favor here. (How about doing, say, Bernie Sanders a favor?) What I don't understand is why.
Why indeed. Could the White House really not find a single Republican qualified to serve who hadn't compared the president to a dictator recently?
Pierce is just warming up in the excerpt I quote above. As he notes later, Obama's attempts to reach out will not work. They cannot work. The Republican Party is not out to negotiate with him, its elected leaders and leading interest groups are out to destroy him.
I fail to understand why the Obama administration is so willing to help with that effort.
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