Things That Will Not Happen
All across the progressive blogosphere today, there are calls for the Obama Administration to give Shirley Sherrod her job back, including from Obama’s staunchest defenders.
Newsflash: it’s not going to happen. if there’s one thing I have learned, it’s that this administration (like the rest of the Democratic party) likes the money and energy that progressives contribute to election campaigning, but it is not very excited about passing their priorities (please do not give me a lecture about how “health insurance reform is the same as “health CARE reform”, or how the financial regulations are “the best we could do given the circumstances”). This is, after all, the adminsitration that dumped Van Jones because Glenn Beck had a hissy fit. The same Democratic Party that voted (unconstitutionally) to defund ACORN, because of a different doctored video.
It’s not going to happen. I eagerly await what these same supporters, who now say that if Sherrod is not reinstated that the administration has “has no spine and no brain”, will do when that reinstatement doesn’t occur.
Happy to be proved wrong… but i don’t think I will be.
July 21st, 2010 at 5:06 pm
Vilsack just called her to apologize and offer her a job. But it’s not her old job, so technically you’re right. Also, someone from the White House called and apologized to her, and Vilsack is going to meet with the Congressional Black Caucus this afternoon.