Now, Gore is appointing a government. Moderates get key foreign policy jobs. But attorney general goes to Harvard liberal Laurence Tribe. Friends of the Earth picks the interior secretary. AFL-CIO President John Sweeney is named secretary of labor.
Liberal groups are ecstatic.
Not on your life. They would going berserk and doing everything to block anyone left of Joe Lieberman. Democrats are hobbled by several problems. First, their unity is undercut by their own center-right. Republicans, by contrast, have repeatedly allowed a single senator to block an unpalatable nomination while GOP moderates went meekly along.