Posted on 09/08/2009 9:29:52 AM PDT by RobinMasters
After all of the explosive controversy of having a 9/11 Truther in the Obama administration exposed, perhaps an ordinary case of hypocrisy and subterfuge will seem like a respite. The Washington Times reports that Barack Obama’s appointee for Undersecretary of Homeland Security - Science and Technology has forgotten to mention that she worked for a firm that lobbied Congress on the exact same area that she will now run. Will we get yet another waiver of the White House’s no-lobbyists executive order?
President Obama’s nominee at the Department of Homeland Security overseeing bioterrorism defense has served as a key adviser for a lobbying group funded by the pharmaceutical industry that has asked the government to spend more money for anthrax vaccines and biodefense research.
But Dr. Tara O’Toole, whose confirmation as undersecretary of science and technology is pending, never reported her involvement with the lobbying group called the Alliance for Biosecurity in a recent government ethics filing.
The alliance has spent more than $500,000 lobbying Congress and federal agencies — including Homeland Security — since 2005, congressional records show.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Meh, they will issue a waiver or two.......
Maybe Barry’s lesson today to the kiddies could be about how important it is to keep your word.
Well, he did tell us he's a socialist...
You’ll have freepmail in a few on this one.
So, can we now put to bed the term “McCarthyism”?
Now it’s “Beckism”!
Thing is, BOTH WERE CORRECT! There are commies in the Administrations!
Go! Beck! Root the devils out!
"(Dr. Tara O'Toole) never reported her involvement with the lobbying group called the Alliance for Biosecurity in a recent government ethics filing."
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Energy nominee’s hearing off until August
The Advocate (Baton Rouge, La.) - Tuesday, July 27, 1993
Author: JOAN MCKINNEY: WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON - Some U.S. senators want to know if Tara O’Toole is - or ever was - a Marxist , but Louisiana labor unions say O’Toole is a qualified advocate for a safe workplace.
In letters mailed last week, the unions pushed U.S. Sen. J. Bennett Johnston, D-La., to break the logjam on O’Toole ‘s nomination to a top U.S. Energy Department job and to schedule an immediate confirmation hearing at the Senate Energy Committee, which Johnston chairs.
That’s not going to happen, however. The Energy Committee will not meet on the O’Toole nomination until after Congress’ August recess, a committee spokesman said Monday.
Reportedly, President Clinton asked that the hearing be delayed, or he agreed to the delay, in order to find out more information that might resolve senators’ questions about O’Toole .
Johnston himself is noncommittal.
U.S. Sen. Malcolm Wallop, R-Wyo., blocked a previously scheduled July l hearing on O’Toole , after raising questions about O’Toole ‘s membership in an organization that 20 years ago was called the “ Marxist -Feminist Group I.”
The organization changed its name in the late 1970s to Northeast Feminist Scholars.
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See also post #8.
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`MARXISM’ ISSUE DOGS NOMINEE
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Saturday, July 17, 1993
Author: Clifford Krauss, The New York Times
In another trying twist for the confirmation of administration appointees, Senate approval of Tara O’Toole as assistant secretary of energy is in serious jeopardy because of her affiliation to a feminist group that once characterized itself as Marxist .
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee has delayed confirmation hearings for O’Toole indefinitely.
Two conservative senators have denounced her membership in a study group, Northeast Feminist Scholars, originally called Marxist -Feminist Group I.
The affiliation raises questions about her philosophy and judgment, conservative senators say. The White House said O’Toole joined the group years after it had changed its name.
The conservative challenge to O’Toole comes as Republicans try to sidetrack appointment of Joycelyn Elders as surgeon general for supporting sex education and abortion rights. Administration officials say they will stand by both nominees.
``We believe she is superbly qualified,’’ William White, deputy energy secretary, said of O’Toole . ``This administration and department do not embrace any Marxist ideology. According to Dr. O’Toole , she does not, either.’’
Supporters in the Senate have speculated that conservatives do not like certain writings of O’Toole that suggest she might make private Energy Department contractors more accountable and liable for errors made in nuclear and other projects.
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Spartanburg, SC, November 3, 2007
Obama:
"One year from now, we have the chance to tell all those corporate lobbyists that the days of them setting the agenda in Washington are over. I have done more to take on lobbyists than any other candidate in this race - and I've won. I don't take a dime of their money, and when I am President, they won't find a job in my White House. Because real change isn't another four years of defending lobbyists who don't represent real Americans - it's standing with working Americans who have seen their jobs disappear and their wages decline and their hope for the future slip further and further away. That's the change we can offer in 2008."
http://www.barackobama.com/2007/11/03/remarks_of_senator_barack_obam_30.php
From post 8.
“...questions about O’Toole ‘s membership in an organization that 20 years ago was called the “ Marxist -Feminist Group I.”
The organization changed its name in the late 1970s to Northeast Feminist Scholars.
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Thanks maggief
Another dimocrap- another liar- another whore with an agenda- another NObama appointee.
SOOO where is the news in this story?
Dr. Tara O’Toole is a female idiot like Costanza:
“Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?
I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon... you know, cause I’ve worked in a lot of offices, and I tell you, people do that all the time. “
Humming a few bars of "It Seems To Me I've Head That Song Before."
: )
Bombshell quote. The Money Quote. Very good. Send it to Beck.
bttt
BUMP! BUMP! BUMP!
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