Daily Archives: December 7, 2008

Dec 7 2008

Obama promised to keep lobbyists at arm’s length, so did he?

During the campaign, Obama promised to keep lobbyists at arm’s length, and he has taken steps aimed at keeping out the taint of the influence business. He imposed first-ever rules that prohibit anyone on his transition team from working in policy areas on which they had lobbied in the past year an arbitrary time period and a withdrawal system was set up for anyone who might run afoul of the rule.

(1)  Maria Echaveste, lobbied for the United Farm Workers this year to protect immigrant agricultural workers as the Bush administration sought to ease hiring of seasonal farm labor and Congress debated an immigration overhaul.

(2) Bart Chilton, lobbied until last year as vice president of the National Farmers Union.

(3)  Keith Harper, has worked as a lawyer for Native American tribes, and wrote in a 2006 article that the Interior Department’s handling of Indian trust matters has been a “national disgrace.

(4) Bill Corr, lobbied to prevent children from smoking as executive director of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. The group has spent $675,000 this year trying to influence policymakers

(5) Mark Gitenstein, was registered until August to lobby on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, AT&T Inc. and financial firms such as Ernst & Young LLP and Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.

Obama is relying on to build his administration have represented unions; energy, environmental groups, insurance, and drug companies; Wal-Mart; the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; and the lobbying arm of the Washington-based Center for American Progress. The center is a think tank headed by John Podesta, former chief of staff to Bill Clinton and now co-chairman of Obama’s transition.

Despite Obama’s efforts to insulate his new administration from what might be tainted advice, lobbyists’ involvement in the new government warrants close scrutiny, said Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan institute that studies the influence business.

“They are taking a risk by taking these people on board,” Krumholz said. “If they’re viewed as being in the pocket of industry, that is not going to be beneficial to this administration that is trying so hard to claim a new mantle.”

SOURCE:  newsmax

Dec 7 2008

Obama: Days of ‘pork … as a strategy’ are over

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“You know, the days of just pork coming out of Congress as a strategy, those days are over.”
Source : CNN

Ok here we go, Obama says no more pork …as a strategy and you have to read between his words to get the true story. He is saying no more pork in bills unless it for a project that he wants. That sounds like a dictator to this American and if he sticks to his words then he has just lost the support of not only the Republicans but also lost the support of many democrats. The House Speaker ask for many millions in pork and so does most of the other democrats and yes republicans.
The left liberals are starting to get worried about what Obama will now do since he is the President! We’re starting to hear more about thats not the change he promised!
Obama is starting off on the wrong foot if he thinks that he can rule what congress does, he might be able to ask but to tell or order them will get him no where! This shows his inexperience!

Dec 7 2008

Will Barack Hussien Obama make spending look patriotic?

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Unemployment is on the rise. The stock market is in the tank. Is this any time for a party?
“We’re mindful of the fact that people in this country are hurting, that they’re going through hard times,” said Linda Douglass, spokeswoman for the Presidential Inaugural Committee.
The president shouldn’t be seen noshing on caviar, but neither should he dispense with glamour entirely, Troy said. Americans want their leader to be a man of the people and a celebrity superstar, both.

“Americans are people who love to indulge, and deep in our hearts want our leaders to be like the king and queen of England — but not too much,” he said.
SOURCE: Fox News

Lets ask the hard working Americans that has no job and no money for Christmas if they want Barack to be a celebrity superstar and to be like the king and queen of England while their own children go without this Christmas? How about it unemployed?

LINKS:

(1) Shorter Obama: “We’re in deep shit folks.”

If you look at the unemployment numbers that came out yesterday, if you think about almost 2 million jobs lost so far, if you think about the fragility of the financial system…read more

(2) COMMUNIST OBAMA REVEALS PLAN FOR DESTROYING UNITED STATES
Barack Obama continued following the Communist plan of destroying the dollar as he introduced a monumental spending plan in the wake of the American financial crisis.

Following the Cloward-Piven strategy of induced bankruptcy and social unrest, Obama proposed the largest spending program in decades, sparking uproar and controversy from critics who said the proposal would destroy the U.S. currency. Read more

(3) What should Obama do with his $30 million campaign surplus?

(4) Bill Ayers Watch: Holiday auction dinner with terrorists!
Meantime, a community organizing group in Illinois lists some of its holiday auction items, including: