Who's In A Tizzy?

By Patrick Appel
Marc on the left being upset:

What the left really objects to  -- if the left really objects to anything, and, really, there's no evidence that the "left" is upset -- ... actually, I'm going to interrupt this sentence and redefine "left" as that old Washington liberal interest group crowd; what they object to is Obama's decision to create an administration that does not give Washington-based liberal interest groups a privileged seat at the table, that does not use traditional political liberal means to achieve progressive ends, that does not, at least a priori, buy into the symbological, circularly stimulating priorities of liberal interest groups. (Case in point: Joe Lieberman.)

Ta-Nehisi weighs in.