Illness
Posted on November 21st, 2008 by Kevin G
I will be out at least through the weekend due to illness. Please indulge your thirst or information by visiting E.L. Burton’s blog in the meantime. With luck, I shall see you on Monday.
I will be out at least through the weekend due to illness. Please indulge your thirst or information by visiting E.L. Burton’s blog in the meantime. With luck, I shall see you on Monday.
Back when Barack Obama selected Joe Biden as his runnig mate, I said that it showed he was not the agent of change that he was professing to be. Instead, I pointed out that it was nothing more than reverting to the old ways.
Over the past week we can now see that the ‘change’ mantra was a smokescreen, just as the Bill Ayers denial was. Obama does NOT care about change and - as always with the Democrats - feels that his own rules don’t need to be adhered to when it comes to Democrats in his administration.
Tom Daschle has been selected to be the Health and Human Services Secretary. This is all good and wonderful until you read in the NY Times article that he should NOT be eligible for this post - at least according to the stipulation that Obama made for lobbyists in his administration.
Now one has to ask whyu Obama chose this man who, by the notes in the article, will have to recuse himself from just about every policy decision that affects the Mayo Clinic and any other issue that Alston & Bird lobbying corporation (they lobbied for medical and health companies) had an interest in.
Mr. Obama, why can’t you follow even the rules that YOU laid down?
Of course, with the choice of Eric Holder to the position of Attorney General and the supposed selection of Hillary Clinton to the Secretary of State position, we see what basically amounts to this administration re-constituting the Clinton era. Not change, but rather a retrograde movement. Certainly, not something that his supporters believed he would do, based on what they were told.
Then we have a NY Times article that points out how many former ‘influencers’ are getting jobs in the administration. Most of these are jobs that don’t require Senate confirmation.
It appears to me that the Clinton-ista’s are singing the song “Happy Days are Here Again”, while the country - most notably the people who fell for Obama’s ‘change’ mantra - are singing quite a different tune. One can only sit back and wait to see what other former Clinton cabinet members will be getting positions soon.
People, I can only say that I told you so. Yep. We are having change. The problem is that it is change back to the 1990’s and not change that takes us further into the 21st century.