Daily Archives: December 28, 2008

Dec 28 2008

Obamas Liberal legal group

Sixteen appointees and advisers helping president-elect Barack Obama’s Justice Department transition efforts all recently sat on the board of a little-known organization: The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy.

The liberal legal network, which blossomed during eight years of Democratic exile, counts as its veterans Obama’s attorney general nominee Eric Holder, Vice President-elect Joe Biden’s chief of staff Ron Klain, and future White House Staff Secretary Lisa Brown.
The ACS links also reach far into Obama’s past legal career. Harvard University law professor Laurence Tribe, a member of the ACS Board of Advisors, taught Obama constitutional law and later advised his campaign on legal issues. Read More

Looks like Barack is well protected?

Dec 28 2008

Obama struggling with “the glass bubble”

All presidents and would-be presidents struggle with “the bubble” – the security detail and the always-there reporters that impose barriers to any spontaneous interaction with the outside world.

But Obama seems to be struggling particularly hard, particularly early.

As rapid as Obama’s political rise has been, so too has his family’s introduction to the bubble.

Obama no longer gets out for an impromptu lunch or a haircut. The barber he’s gone to for 15 years now comes to him, and he mostly orders out. Soon Obama likely will be forced to give up the BlackBerry he often kept attached to his hip during the campaign. Read more

Barack you’re finding out that keeping secrets from the American people is getting harder to do. When they take your BlackBerry you will be totally in that bubble. What you do or say will be highlighted by the press and yes there will be some media that will report it.  Anyone feeling sorry for Barack?  I was thinking along the lines of the Tony Rezko and Blagojevich dealing. 

Dec 28 2008

States Thinking About Selling Off Roads, Parks

Like families pawning the silver to get through a tight spot, states such as Minnesota, New York, Massachusetts and Illinois are thinking of selling or leasing toll roads, parks, lotteries and other assets to raise desperately needed cash.

Massachusetts lawmakers are considering putting the Massachusetts Turnpike in private hands. That could bring in upfront money to help with a $1.4 billion deficit, while also saving on highway operating costs.

In New York, Democratic Gov. David Paterson appointed a commission to look into leasing state assets, including the Tappan Zee Bridge north of New York City, the lottery, golf courses, toll roads, parks and beaches. Recommendations are expected next month. READ MORE

My question is, what will happen to Obama’s one trillion dollars to build Infrastructure to make more jobs if the states sells or lease them? Does the government know what it wants to do or not! Something about this stinks!