It’s a Quarter to Three, There’s No One In the Place Except You and Me

Is he kidding?? “The new commander in chief has barred lobbyists from taking jobs…”
Apparently the report hasn’t watched many of Obama’s appointments.

So it’s longer acceptable pratice to “pay to play”!!!!!
Amazing—– now there’s no one qualified that can be considered for these key positions—- what does that tell you a about government and politics????
Last I checked there was an extreme overabundance of people looking for employment!!!!
What seems to be the problem??? Are you no longer allowed to hire your friends and family??

ABC’s Jonathan Karl reported last night on ABC Evening News that he reviewed the anti-stimulus bill and found thousands of earmarks.
He said they found so many thousands of earmarks they couldn’t count them all.

John:” “The new commander in chief has barred lobbyists from taking jobs…”
Apparently the report hasn’t watched many of Obama’s appointments.”
Apparently you haven’t been watching too closely. 90%+ of Obama’s appointments have never been lobbyists, and 97% conform to the letter of his executive order. This is unprecedented and not surprisingly this major change to the standard way of doing business is taking some adjustment.

The same old political faces making the same old political talking points. The same group of careerists vying for attention with their eye on the next election as if their congressional seat was a lifelong trust. The continual blurring of religion and politics where the candidates try to impress with their constant references to God. The bilking of the public with no one held accountable. The daily lies, deceit, subtrafuge, and broken promises fed to a gullible public who refuse to do their homework. The canonization of Obama from nearly every quarter with nothing to back up the assertions. The calls for reform which are merely that. The monies that are wasted and unaccounted for. An illegal war that goes on and on. The repeated calls for sacrifice which only affect us.

Memo to Senator Schumer:
Americans do indeed care about a “few” pesky earmarks. ABC identified so many thousands of them they can’t count them all.
Only in DC are a few in reality thousands.

It may be hard to find people less competant than Geithner and Summers to serve as underlings.

Concerned in OH:”Why would 0bama’s rule about lobbyists affect Treasury? It sure as heck didn’t affect any of 0bama’s appointments.”
Really? Last I checked Obama’s administration had fewer lobbyists in it than any in a generation. Do you have any citation that refutes this?
Is this just a coincidence? Is Obama inherently far less pre-disposed to hiring lobbyists than past presidents? Or might his no-lobbyist policy have had a strong influence on his appointments?
Just wondering if there is any factual basis to your insults.

I didn’t vote for the guy, but I believe he is making a good-faith effort to disrupt the revolving door in DC. It’s even worth accepting some delay in appointments this time — but only if it becomes the case (and remains so) that leaving to lobby means never coming back.

Maybe, even fellow Democrats and lobbyist don’t want to be associated with the direction the Obama administration is taking the economy.
Or, maybe those that they are considering need a little more time to file their ammended tax returns…

jpt writes:
“In the past two weeks, Geithner has moved quickly, outlining a revised approach to stabilize the financial sector and a program to assist struggling homeowners from losing their homes to foreclosure.”
STOP him, before he “plans” again.

Sorry – but why is Obama referred to as the “Commander in Chief” here by Jaffe? What branch of the military does the Treasury Department represent?
Is Ron reading from the teleprompter again?

from the Jaffe piece:
“right now Geithner [probably has 10 or 20 percent of the political appointees around him that he ultimately will have.’”
God help us. Geithner shouldn’t have been there in the first place, his daddy’s hiring of Obama’s mama notwithstanding.
ONE screwy thing about the Matt Jaffe article is that “the briar patch” — an Uncle Remus reference there — is NOT “nasty” to those who seek to be thrown into it.
The idea that the answer to the crashed economy is to turn even MORE Wall Street players loose — do we sense oncoming “emergency” appointments, at high pay, of a scad of at-liberty finance guys, Geithner’s associates left over from the crashes and mergers? — to help Geithner finish looting the Treasury for the corporations is quite weird, and not inherently believable.
Canning Geithner and Summers makes a lot more sense. Get Krugman in there. And John Edwards.

“The BDS is strong in this one, 0biwan.”
Wow that has to hurt coming from the Ashley Todd hoax spreader.

“ABC’s Jonathan Karl reported last night on ABC Evening News that he reviewed the anti-stimulus bill and found thousands of earmarks.”
Oh look Peach is conflating the stimulus bill which had no earmarks and the new budget which does.
Is it lying or stupidity?

As I went to pains to clarify with Peach, we are talking about the budget omnibus bill. The one that actually has earmarks.
There were no earmarks (which are a defined type of specified spending) in the stimulus bill (and lots of people looked hard for them), the stimulus bill is passed, and we’re not talking about it currently. Make sense?
jhw539 ,
No earmarks in the traditional sense, Just HUGE globs of money to be used in any old which way!
Seems like we saw this movie already!….oh yes…TARP !!!!
That’s ok; this time we have Obama here to “make sure” we have “traceability”. We can’t tell the American people how many jobs will be created (because we have no idea to begin with, hence the new term “created/saved”), but by God we will track every dime!
Trust me America, I have put Joe Biden on this!

Gosh, didn’t Obama say he wouldn’t sign any legislation with earmarks? Why yes. Yes he did.
But I can see his devoted Comrades don’t care that it’s just another broken promise.
Kudos to ABC for identifying thousands upon thousands of earmarks.

“That explains why Summers fell asleep during the lovefest at the Fiscal Responsibility Summit.”
On. the. nod, mayhap. Like the Japanese fellow who lost his job. (Have you listened lately to Summers’ attempts to SPEAK?)

“Obama’s idea are too stupid to even call them socialist.”
However, the ideas — if you want to elevate this across-the-board fiscal flim-flam to the “idea” level — are NOT too stupid to be called “corporatist”, i.e., fascist.
Paying CLOSE attention to what this cabal intends to introduce as “National Service” will, alas, illustrate this all too well.