Another Corrupt Democrat?

Is the sheen coming off the Obama juggernaut? Bill Richardson has withdrawn his name from nomination for the post of Commerce Secretary, citing an ongoing investigation into possible political pay-to-play during his term as governor of New Mexico. Richardson was one of a long string of Clintonites and corrupt Democrats that Obama has appointed to his cabinet after being elected. And there's more to come...Obama has apparently settled on Leon Panetta to head the CIA. The corporate media have played up the notion that Obama is dissapointing his progressive supporters, and to a certain extent that's true. And the Richardson fiasco exacerbates this view, however fair or unfair it may be.

I've said from the beginning that I'll give the Obama Administration a fair shake. If they govern progressively, they'll get my support. If they revert to Clinton-style triangulation and faux-centrism, I'll revert to my Green Party roots. So far, Obama's picks are mostly disappointing...but we'll see what happens. Our country is facing the most dire crisis in generations, and the type of free-market thinking that got us here will not get us out of this mess.