That didn’t take long…

“Liberals are growing increasingly nervous – and some just flat-out angry – that President-elect Barack Obama seems to be stiffing them on Cabinet jobs and policy choices.

Obama has reversed pledges to immediately repeal tax cuts for the wealthy and take on Big Oil. He’s hedged his call for a quick drawdown in Iraq. And he’s stocking his White House with anything but stalwarts of the left.

Now some are shedding a reluctance to puncture the liberal euphoria at being rid of President George W. Bush to say, in effect, that the new boss looks like the old boss.

“He has confirmed what our suspicions were by surrounding himself with a centrist to right cabinet. But we do hope that before it’s all over we can get at least one authentic progressive appointment,” said Tim Carpenter, national director of the Progressive Democrats of America.

OpenLeft blogger Chris Bowers went so far as to issue this plaintive plea: “Isn’t there ever a point when we can get an actual Democratic administration?”

Bowers is as clueless as the rest of the uber-left crowd. The fact is that the democratic party is just left of center, but not far left and that’s where Bowers and the rest of the crowd upset with Obama is. They really do still think that they are the “mainstream” but the fact is that they are the fringe and always will be. America IS a right of center nation, but not far right. Obama ran as a moderate and won as a moderate. This in fact that his record – as sparse as it was – was decidedly far left.

Yet Obama knows that when Bill Clinton ran to the rabid left in 1993 he was punished by the voters in 1994 when he lost control of congress for the first time in 40 years. When you look at the election results for 2008 there were very few seats won by democrats with a sizable majority of votes. Many were just 2-3 points difference.

If the uber-left is mad now, they haven’t seen anything yet.