We all know about the vetting problems with Timothy Geithner, Tom Daschle and Nancy Killefer. Today was a new day, and yes, we have another tax problem for an Obama nominee, this time Rep. Hilda Solis, Obama’s would-be labor secretary.
I guess it really is that hard to find Democrats who have as much enthusiasm for paying taxes as they do imposing them.
Moving on from taxes, how has Team Obama been doing on the foreign affairs front?
We all know he delivered on a promise to close GITMO. Of course, no details or plans in place on what to do with the terrorists, but that’s for another day. Second thing President Obama did in the foreign policy front, give a pathetic blame-America-first interview to a Saudi-based TV network.
For the foreign policy trifecta, how about disrespecting and throwing four-star Marine General Anthony Zinni under the bus?
Zinni had been offered the position of Ambassador to Iraq, accepted it, and had even received a congratulatory phone call from Joe Biden. While he made arrangements to live in Iraq, though, Obama and Hillary Clinton changed their minds — and never bothered to tell him
Moving on to domestic policy, Obama is losing the stimulus battle. I guess that means the taxpayers are winning?
How is that “ethics and transparency” thing working out for the Obama administration? Well, let’s just say it hasn’t gotten off to a great start,
The event announcing the new openness was closed to all reporters except the handful who are in the White House pool.
The very first WH press briefing of the Obama administration brought howls from the press corps over a lack of promised trasparency,
A growing media frustration with Barack Obama’s team spilled into the open at Thursday’s briefing, with reporters accusing the White House of stifling access to his oath re-do and giving Obama’s first interview as president to a multi-million dollar inauguration sponsor.
As we said, Obama (so far) has kept his promise to close GITMO. What about some of his other promises?,
Promise of candidate Obama: Ending the revolving door between government and lobbyists.:
President Obama signed an executive order doing just that, then, he nominated a Raytheon lobbyist as his number 2 person in the Pentagon! Even the New York Times is scratching their heads,
Obama’s Pledge to Reform Ethics Faces an Early Test
WASHINGTON — During almost two years on the campaign trail, Barack Obama vowed to slay the demons of Washington, bar lobbyists from his administration and usher in what he would later call in his Inaugural Address a “new era of responsibility.†What he did not talk much about were the asterisks.
The exceptions that went unmentioned now include a pair of cabinet nominees who did not pay all of their taxes. Then there is the lobbyist for a military contractor who is now slated to become the No. 2 official in the Pentagon. And there are the others brought into government from the influence industry even if not formally registered as lobbyists.
But besides that, everything is cool, right?
Here is what candidate Obama promised with regard to bill signings,
“Too often bills are rushed through Congress and to the president before the public has the opportunity to review them,†the Obama-Biden campaign website states. “As president, Obama will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days.â€
Here is what Obama did as President
President Barack Obama kept one campaign pledge Wednesday afternoon and at the same time violated another when he signed into law the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, which extends health care coverage to 11 million low-income children.
But Obama’s 5 p.m. signing came barely three hours after the House approved the bill, breaching Obama’s promise to have a five-day period of “sunlight before signing,†as he detailed on the campaign trail and on his website.
Remember that promise not to raise taxes on anyone making over $250,000/year. Already broken.
Yesterday, Victor Davis Hanson wrote the following about White House press secretary Robert Gibbs,
Gibbs as press secretary is a Scott McClellan nightmare that won’t go away, given his long McClellan-like relationship with Obama (McClellan should have been fired on day hour one on the job). Blaming Fox News for Obama’s calamities is McClellan to the core and doesn’t work. He already reminds me of Reverend Wright’s undoing at the National Press Club—and he will get worse.
Today, Gibbs did all he could to prove Hanson’s point,
Holy training wheels Batman! I’m too exhausted to continue the parade of horribles, but I know I’m missing about another dozen examples from the first few weeks. “Hope and Change” has already morphed into “I hope he can change!”