Obama scores well for first year on ethics, say watchdog groups

The Hill ^ | 12/27/09 | Kevin Bogardus

[Nachum]

President Barack Obama scores well among ethics watchdog groups in his first year in office, though they’d still like to see more from the president.

Obama has wielded the power of the White House to craft an executive order that limited lobbyist hires in his administration, push federal agencies to share more of their data with the public and begin releasing visitor records for the executive complex on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

[Nachum]

Obama wins the most applause for putting senior aides in place whose primary job is better ethics and transparency in the federal government. The appointees include Norm Eisen, Obama’s Harvard Law School classmate and the administration’s ethics czar who is stationed in the White House Counsel’s office; Beth Noveck, the deputy chief technology officer who is leading the Open Government Initiative; and Vivek Kundra, the chief information officer.

Sorry, I forgot the "barf alert"

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[aruanan]

Obama scores well for first year on ethics, say watchdog groups

The hooker with the heart of gold?

[RichInOC]

Solid B plus.

[scott7278]

Except that he lies nonstop and spends other people’s money like a drunken sailor while putting in a minimum number of hours of work on a full-time salary while blaming everyone else and throwing others under the bus while actively seeking to destroy the nation from within.

But other than that, he’s great.

[rawcatslyentist]

Parently them dawgs got glaucoma, and a scrip.

[stylin19a]

Obama has wielded the power of the White House to craft an executive order that limited lobbyist hires in his administration, push federal agencies to share more of their data with the public and begin releasing visitor records for the executive complex on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

the only truth here, is, he signed an executive order

[A_Former_Democrat]

Lord have mercy

ROFL

What a freakin joke

[sionnsar]

Except that he lies nonstop and spends other people’s money like a drunken sailor

Drunken sailors spend their own money, not other peoples' money.

[thecabal]

Must be the same “ethic” outfits who believe that infanticide is OK if the baby is disabled or inconvenient to you.

[Faith]

You’re kidding, right?

[packrat35]

So true, drunk sailors are getting a bum rap when compared to obama!

[tumblindice]

“ethics watchdog groups”

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
All the cops have wooden legs

And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth

And the hens lay soft-boiled eggs
The farmers’ trees are full of fruit
And the barns are full of hay
Oh I’m bound to go
Where there ain’t no snow
Where the rain don’t fall
The winds don’t blow
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.

[packrat35]

I really don’t know how this was written with a straight face. Seriously, over half his senior aids were tax cheats.

[ntmxx]

Really, is being a liar ethical? Or is being just a natural born sneak, cheat and liar have to be proved first?

[catarac]

He is truly the greatest liar in the history of Presidents. 1.”No ear marks” 2. “transparency” 3. “no increase in deficit in health care” 4.”reach across the isle” 5 “bring our Nation together”. This lying sack of crap is a disgrace to the office and dark hour in American history. This nightmare will end at the ballot box if we can simply find a leader.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

The author should change his name to Kevin BOGUS. What a POS. The Obama administration is full of crooks, commies, and crazies, and that’s just the czars and czarinas.

Loaded with ex-lobbyists, tax-cheats, global-warming nuts, communists, children of communists, including the son of a Soviet agent of influence, all other kinds of security risks, and a child pedophilia promoter.

Transparency? Attended any big issue meetings lately? And I’m talking about Republican congressmen, not the public.

The Hill is made of horse manure and its writer is BOGUS.

[maggief]

Pffffffffffft ... first google hit.

http://www.fas.org/sgp/

Project on Government Secrecy (Federation of American Scientists)

The Project is directed by Steven Aftergood and is supported by grants from the Open Society Institute, the Rockefeller Family Fund, the Herb Block Foundation, the HKH Foundation, the CS Fund, and the Stewart R. Mott Charitable Trust.

[skinkinthegrass]

Obama scores well for first year on ethics, say watchdog groups

n/p...the title said it all, they're (all) brainless twits.

[ColdOne]

The last sentence in the article says...

Don’t let the fact that you are being stroked take away your sober judgment. Let’s see what is accomplished,” McGehee said. “The taste of that nice wine may be great but don’t drink the whole bottle.”

Seems to me McGehee drank the whole case of wine!