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Great article from the WSJ:
INC on February 3, 2009 at 12:00 AM

Compare the WSJ article to this total whitewash and cover for the Obama administration from the same press that hounded Bush for years with scandals and accusations that proved to be nothing but partisan witch hunts and lies:

This is how the press covers for Obama!!
PROMISES, PROMISES: No lobbyists at WH, except ...
By CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press Writer Charles Babington, Associated Press Writer
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090203/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_reform_promises_2/print

Maybe he shouldn’t have promised so much, some open-government advocates say. They’re willing to cut him some slack — for now.

“Even the toughest rules require reasonable exceptions,” said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.

“It was probably a mistake to come down so hard on lobbyists,” said Melanie Sloan, who is not shy about criticizing lobbyists or politicians as executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. “I think the Obama folks’ intentions were great here,” she said. “But sometimes you realize you can’t actually govern on just what you campaigned on.”

Daschle, a former senator tapped to head Health and Human Services, is not technically a lobbyist. But he was paid more than $5.2 million over the past two years as he advised health insurers and hospitals and worked in other industries such as energy and telecommunications.

Fred Wertheimer of Democracy21 is one of Washington’s best-known advocates of more open and honest government. He called Obama’s executive order “unprecedented and almost revolutionary in nature” and “a direct attack on the culture of Washington and the way business is done here.”
“A few waivers will not undermine it,” he said, provided they are justified and limited.

Over and over and over the AP/Yahoo article does nothing but justify the hypocrisy and corruption of Obama.

It is just sickening to watch the MSM work so hard on scarring up their knees and forcing their heads as far up Obama a$$ as they can in defending this Paparazzi President.

Baxter Greene on February 3, 2009 at 12:12 AM

Baxter Greene on February 3, 2009 at 12:12 AM

That’s pathetic. Typical, but still disgusting. They should be raking him over the coals. If he were an R, they would be.

INC on February 3, 2009 at 12:16 AM

Exactly right!!

Unfortunately the WSJ article is an exception instead of the norm.
We watched for 8 years as the MSM pumped bogus scandals like Bush stole the 2000/2004 elections,Bush lied about pre-war intel,Bush did 9/11,the bogus Plame scandel,torture,constitution being ripped up…blah..blah…blah.

Not one single rant or conspiracy theory ever evolved into the truth and was dis proven over and over.

We watched hour long specials on CNN and NBC/MSNBC/CBS about Foley,Rove,Abramoff to name a few.

Now we have Rangel,Jefferson,Dodd,Barney Frank,Richardson,Blago,Spitzer,Geithner,Daschle and many others from the democratic party and all we get is

“minor mistake,could happen to anybody”,

“distraction,nothing to see here,move along”,

“This is just a red herring”

The democrats know that the press will cover for them no matter what.
Pravda west at it’s finest.

Obama could pull out an AK-47 and shoot 20 polar Bears while yelling “take that you ni$$er Fa%%ots”

and all the press would do is congratulate him for providing food and clothing for the poor.

How pathetic!!!

Baxter Greene on February 3, 2009 at 12:40 AM

Daschle was an A$$hole!!!

Baxter Greene on February 3, 2009 at 1:03 AM

‘$$’ being the operative word.

Limerick on February 3, 2009 at 1:05 AM

Synopsis translation: The senate has become Den of Overlord Thieves.

MB4 on February 3, 2009 at 1:44 AM

Yes it has,and this “pay for play” trillion dollar rip off of the American people by using “the depression” to push it just makes this all the more corrupt.

And the hits just keep on coming:

Bankrolling charitable gifts
By Silla Brush and Kevin Bogardus
Posted: 02/02/09 08:17 PM [ET]

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/bankrolling-charitable-gifts-2009-02-02.html

Financial firms and other companies receiving billions of dollars in federal bailout money spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay for meetings and charitable gifts on behalf of lawmakers.

At one event in December, several of the biggest financial firms in the country sponsored a reception on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and dinner at the NYSE Club where Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, was the keynote speaker.

Bank of America contributed $35,000 for the Dec. 18 event, which was organized by the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, records show. Justin Nelson, the chamber’s president, said Citigroup contributed $17,500 and Goldman Sachs another $35,000, although records do not include those expenses. The three banks have received a combined $105 billion in bailout money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Bank of America and Citigroup have required repeated bailouts from the government.

Obama’s inauguration had plenty of fat cats riding in on their 600 private jets:

Obama hosting pricey party in a dicey economy
By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer Matt Apuzzo, Associated Press Writer
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090117/ap_on_go_pr_wh/inauguration_spending

Many of the fundraisers are well-known moneymen and women in Democratic circles. Those leading the list raised at least $300,000. They include two of Obama’s top campaign fundraisers: Louis Susman, who retired this month as vice chairman of banking giant and government bailout recipient Citigroup, and billionaire Hyatt hotel heiress Penny Pritzker.

How’s this for “hope and change”.

Pretty much staring us right in the eyes and telling us they are stealing us blind,while their friends in the MSM cover for them and tell the sheep :

“YES WE CAN!!”

Baxter Greene on February 3, 2009 at 2:30 AM

Not all of those 3 million “green” jobs are environmental jobs.

sethstorm on February 3, 2009 at 2:45 AM

I have heard that most of these “green jobs” are not jobs created at all since going green actually puts people out of many jobs they are doing now and switches them over to these
supposed “green jobs”.

If this is true, it’s not going to make a dent in that unemployment rate.

Baxter Greene on February 3, 2009 at 2:57 AM

I hear there would be plenty of folks already unemployed who have no issue with being with the IRS.

sethstorm on February 3, 2009 at 3:12 AM

How is working for the IRS a “green job”

Baxter Greene on February 3, 2009 at 3:48 AM

With a world wide economic crises,many countries like
China and India that are not “going green”,and global warming losing credibility each passing day,I think the American people need serious actions taken by Congress on job creation.
This “green job” plan is being shown as an absolute failure by the same people that liberals are so worried that we are liked and respected by:

Economic crisis threatens EU measures on climate change
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080921/sc_afp/euclimatechange
by Christian Spillman Sun Sep 21, 2:45 PM ET

BRUXELLES (AFP) – The recent economic downturn could push the European Union to adopt more modest ambitions in its fight against climate change.

Although the European Commission has said it wants to cut greenhouse gases by 20 percent by 2020, business leaders oppose the use of fines to oblige industry to reduce its emissions — especially in the current economic crisis.
The cost to industry is estimated at some 44 billion euros per year between 2013 and 2020, with a tonne (1.1 US tons) of C02 costing 30 euros.

Business leaders have denounced the policy as a “tax”, threatening to take their investments elsewhere and move their more polluting activities out of Europe.
Faced with the threat of job losses, governments are feeling the pressure.

Green tax revolt: Britons ‘will not foot bill to save planet’
Majority of Britons are opposed to increases in green taxation

By Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor
Friday, 2 May 2008
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/green-tax-revolt-britons-will-not-foot-bill-to-save-planet-819703.html

More than seven in 10 voters insist that they would not be willing to pay higher taxes in order to fund projects to combat climate change, according to a new poll.
The survey also reveals that most Britons believe “green” taxes on 4x4s, plastic bags and other consumer goods have been imposed to raise cash rather than change our behaviour, while two-thirds of Britons think the entire green agenda has been hijacked as a ploy to increase taxes.

Billions wasted on UN climate programme
Energy firms routinely abusing carbon offset fund, US studies claim
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/26/climatechange.greenpolitics
John Vidal, environment editor
The Guardian,
Monday May 26 2008

Billions of pounds are being wasted in paying industries in developing countries to reduce climate change emissions, according to two analyses of the UN’s carbon offsetting programme.

Raising taxes and making it harder for people to compete and conduct business is not going to create jobs.

Baxter Greene on February 3, 2009 at 4:25 AM