Posted on 02/07/2009 2:31:09 AM PST by JohnHuang2
Leon Panetta, a guy who has not formally held an intelligence job, is Obama's pick for the head of the CIA and he already demonstrated the most important qualification for that office – that he is an awfully nice man.
A little on the background importance of niceness:
First, Obama has made plain that the War on Terror has been canceled outside of Afghanistan, and droves of terrorists are now leaving every country in the world except Afghanistan because they always obey the rules, just like Obama does. These developments are deeply essential to the coming victory of niceness, and because the military will no longer be involved in the War on Terror in 95 percent of the world, the CIA director's office becomes all the more important. For projecting essential niceness, that is.
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President Screw Up: Leave no tax cheat behind
How many tax cheats and cronies does it take to fill a Cabinet with "Hope" and "Change"? Obama says his corrupt vetting process deserves kudos since the majority of his nominees aren't tax cheats. And only one got through!
Focusing on what's really important, Obama asks each of his job applicants, 'Have you ever owned a gun?' and not, 'Have you ever paid taxes?'
(Update: The questionnaire was just revised: Have you ever cheated on your taxes in excess of $43,000? Have you ever engaged in senseless savagery, such as murdering patriotic wolves from airplanes?)
At this rate, the $780,000,000,000 pork 'stimulation' package could be paid for with the surge of Democrat tax filings if Obama keeps nominating. Democrats 'stimulate' themselves into paying taxes for the first time when nominated.
Obama ran around the country during the campaign insisting that his administration would bring on a tidal wave of ethical progress -- the most ever in history. Democrats were already wrestling with those 'little' ethics problems called Charlie Rangel, Barney Frank, William Jefferson and Christopher Dodd, but in two short weeks Obama has made significant progress assembling a Cabinet filled with Al Capones.
Obama won an "early victory" when the Senate approved his tax cheat Timothy Geithner for Treasury. For years, "financial guru" Geithner refused to pay $43,000 in taxes by "mistake". He'll have lots of credibility overseeing the IRS.
Tom Daschle, considered a health-care "expert" by liberals because he wrote a book, refused to pay over $128,000 in taxes by "mistake"; Nancy Killefer, named by Obama to be budget honcho and the federal government's chief performance officer, refused to "perform" her unemployment compensation taxes for her household servants by "mistake"; Rep. Hilda Solis sat on the board and was Treasurer of a group that was lobbying Congress and Hilda Solis on bills Hilda Solis had co-sponsored, violating multiple House ethics rules. Armed with this knowledge, Obama picked her for Labor Secretary. It was at that precise moment that her husband made a shocking discovery about tax liens. He had refused to settle $6,400 in tax liens against his business for 16 years by "mistake", which suggests Obama will find a top Cabinet post for him too.
And, in the words of Sen. Patrick Leahy, to "restore the Justice Department and to restore the American people's confidence in Federal law enforcement," Obama named a porn lawyer as deputy Attorney General.
Obama vowed never to name 'lobbyists' to his administration, so he names lobbyist William Lynn as deputy Pentagon honcho, lobbyist Tom Vilsack as Agriculture sec., lobbyist William Corr as HHS deputy, lobbyist Mark Gitenstein as DOJ honcho, lobbyist George Mitchell as 'Middle East envoy' -- or, more precisely, envoy to push the Jews into the sea -- and Goldman Sachs lobbyist Mark Patterson for a gig as chief of staff to that pillar of ethics, Timothy Geithner.
As the Washington Times reports, around two dozen registered ex-lobbyists are working in Obama's lobbyist-free administration -- from yawneroo "executive-branch hires, all the way to Cabinet level." Not to worry, all this frantic lobbyist hiring falls within the new ethics guidelines simply by waiving the new ethics guidelines.
Daschle rode around for years in a chauffeured limo on loan from an investment firm owned by his chum Leo Hindery, and got paid millions for lobbying, but, not to worry here either. Obama says his useless ethics guidelines allow hiring Daschle because he failed to register as a lobbyist.
(For the record, lobbyist Mark Gitenstein -- lead candidate for a gig to oversee the office that oversees judicial nominations that oversees legal policy -- may not require a blanket waiver but a somewhat waiver rather than a waiver of recusal or waiver of the right to waiver when waivering over lawyer-client privilege waiver forms or waiver letters needed to finalize a waiver . . . OK, that doesn't make sense. I think I messed up. I screwed up. I screwed up in not recognizing the perception that even though this is an honest mistake, I believe, on my part, that, you know, ordinary people are out there paying waivers every day and, um, uh, whether it's an intentional mistake or not, it was sending the wrong message that there are two sets of waivers, one for prominent people and one for ordinary folks who have to pay their waivers every day.
Capping Obama's streak of stellar nominations is Leon Panetta, a budget guy to run CIA. This regular James Bond raked in big bucks last year from "speaking fees" and from BP Corp. and from PR firms and from banks which took bailout money. Panetta's sole qualification seems to be that he took money from everybody except Blackwater and Halliburton. With little or no intelligence experience, Panetta was a shoo-in for CIA.
For two years, Obama ran a campaign against Washington insiders with a campaign filled with Washington insiders, now he's named a Cabinet with ethics standards so high it doesn't need ethics, and the media claim they're shocked, stunned and astounded that their lover is already making Jimmy Carter look good. Oh dear. Pass the popcorn.
Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"
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And the MORONS who ELECTED Obama thinks it’s all just FINE, because the corruption was being dome by DEMOCRATS!!
Not all of them.
We are hearing moans and witnessing physical panic reactions among the successful and formerly wealthy. “I didn’t think he could be this bad.”, is an example from a self-made millionaire whose business is decimated and who has spent the past weeks laying people off.
Not sure they would vote GOP, yet. But it has only been two weeks.
I should add that the comment “I know why Democrats raise taxes. It is because they don’t pay them.” has become a meme even among those who voted for the zero.
Was that line (”I didn’t think he could be this bad”) quoted somewhere in the press??? Or was that a friend of yours?
The line was from the almost-bankrupted business owner. But, it is ubiquitous in almost every forum, these days. I have to limit my TV viewing, just due the stress, but I haven’t heard it it yet from FNC, which is all I watch.
Bear in mind that this person (not a friend, just a client)was so gung-ho 2 years ago, that once it was clear 1) Finegold wasn’t running and 2) Finegold had no interest in even an uber-liberal, deep-pocketed business man on his team (self-made business people often have intuitive economic skills), this client began looking for entree into zerO’s campaign. He was stiffed, although they were willing to take his money.
This administration, the DNC and the entire rotten crew are a closed corporation. The client I quoted cannot be the only one who had the same experience of their money being welcome and their input, not so much. He cannot be the only liberal who is hurting badly. That he used a phrase that is ubiquitous on this forum meant, to me, that is now a meme.
I am just afraid that there will not ever again be a free and fair election.
Using “Leon Panetta” and “intelligence” in the same sentence is a joke.
Excellent - really excellent it is hard to see the humor in such corruption and idiocy that some call the democratic party. It has become the Lampoon Party.
You would have to say something such as Democrats in Congress have self control and ethics to get a laugh.
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