Posted on 03/21/2009 1:29:27 PM PDT by lt.america
Who would have thought 55 days into this administration we would be asking the question, what did he know and when did he know it? Word that a provision in the stimulus bill gave the green light for AIG to hand out bonuses using taxpayer money sent the media bloodhounds hot on the trail of whoever is the culprit. For a time, it looked like Senate Banking chairman Chris Dodd would take the fall, but after 24 hours of twisting in the wind, Dodd said the change that exempted past agreements to pay bonuses was made at the request of the administration.
President Obama likes to remind voters that he inherited a mess, and that's true, but this one is of his own making. And until he comes up with a satisfactory explanation of who did what when, and why, his credibility will suffer. Forty-eight hours ago, I didn't think Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner was in trouble, but if the transaction with Dodd turns out to have Geithner's fingerprints on it, his job could be in jeopardy. The deadly chain of events may have started innocently enough, with Treasury Department lawyers raising questions about the government retroactively curtailing private-sector contracts, but did Dodd, who authored the restrictive language, capitulate to some Treasury flunky, or did someone more senior lean on him?
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All this mess and to top it all off... The Supreme Leader of Iran told him to go and ‘pound sand’. Not a good week, but it’s probably only the first of many for this media freak known as Barrack H. Obama.
The media managed to get Jimmy Carter elected and then reality set in... He was a fool and a dud, and apparently history is repeating itself. Hopefully the second part of history will also come through... 4 years of disaster followed by 12 years of Republican control of the Presidency.
The only problem is the damage he may end up doing. The world continues to pay to this very day for Jimmy’s awful screw ups.
By Eleanor Clift?? C’mon Eleanor, fess up. Who are you trying to cover for and who are you trying to skewer? Honest, straightforward reporting and you are total strangers.
I give up, what does General Washington have to do with anything?
“Trying to put a military spin on Obama’s last week...”
OH, GOD, MAKE IT SO!
Next elections are not for a while. So, it is safe to criticize the Messiah. It also attempts to get them a bit of cred against the bias charges (”see..in 2009 we did criticize the President so we are not biased!”).
Were the elections in a few months, this sort of articles would not be published, of course.
Obmam was created by the celebrity culture and he cannot survive without it. It’s like a pitcher without a secondary out pitch.
Ours is a 24-7 classical station with a very welcome 3 hour unelectrofied (music, that is), very cool bluegrass break Sunday night. “News breaks” every two hours. Even their tin cup rattling twice a year is tolerable. Can’t imagine life without ‘em. They support the local symphony and other arts which xm sirious can’t.
It is sad that our only hope to save this country is to hope for gridlock, but I think that is the best we can do right now because no one in this administration has demonstrated any leadership on the economy thus far
Washington didn't have too many "good" winters during that war.
About as much as your defeatist attitude toward the country's future.
Obama was the second largest recipient of campaign funds from AIG behind Dodd. This mess could go straight to the oval office.
Obviously didn’t mean it that way when I typed it out because we still have four more years, but maybe this is his last week of “good will” (whatever that means).
I think you’re projecting, abb. I said nothing “defeatist.” More like “prepare for the long haul and don’t expect it to be easy.”
Where I come from, difficulty breeds character.
YMMV.
unelectrofied is what the spell checker wanted. It should be unelectrified. spell checker now doesn’t like either. Screw it.
and they are all DEMOCRATS!
The only subscribers left are Dr. and Dentist offices. Trying for a few sales?
No, no no Newsweek. Obama is your baby. You and your comrades in the drive-by media put him there. You can’t back out now that you find out he’s a jerk.
You should have researched and find out before the election.
It’s your fault. May your children and grandchildren suffer all the consequences of your journalistic malpractice.
I have read that zero got the most and Dodd was second.
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