Cornyn: How about filling out an org chart instead?
posted at 5:20 pm on March 19, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
The chair of the NRSC took his shot at President Obama during a floor speech ripping the administration for their handling of the AIG bailout. Look for it at about the five-minute mark if you’re impatient, but Sen. John Cornyn’s whole speech is worth watching:
CNN offers the quote:
Texas Sen. John Cornyn took a much harsher tone Thursday in a floor speech, saying that Obama might want to spend less time making basketball predictions and more time filling the many job openings still at the Treasury Department. Having more hands on deck, he said, might have led to better oversight of the AIG situation.
“I appreciate that President Obama has completed his ‘March Madness’ Tournament Bracket,” Cornyn said. “Yet the organizational chart of his administration still has far too many open slots.”
The White House still only lists Tim Geithner among its appointments for the Treasury, meaning that it still has not nominated anyone for the seventeen other Senate-confirmation senior appointments. We’re coming up on two months. How much longer will it take?
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I thought about a witty comment, but you can’t beat that headline.
Vashta.Nerada on March 19, 2009 at 5:22 PM
How about filling out a grocery list. Maybe he could get that right.
bloggless on March 19, 2009 at 5:22 PM
http://www.beatcanvas.com/pics/obama_scratches_vet_insurance.jpg
Otrama’s priorities are so not in line…
beatcanvas on March 19, 2009 at 5:23 PM
Above his paygrade.
bloggless on March 19, 2009 at 5:23 PM
It will probably be 18 spots to fill next week.
WashJeff on March 19, 2009 at 5:23 PM
You know that’s the one advantage to this whole mess. When this whole country turns into The Worker’s Paradise of North America, us Texans can just legally take back our ball and secede.
CapitalistPig on March 19, 2009 at 5:23 PM
And another thing. Why do I have to miss American Idol for an American Idiot?
bloggless on March 19, 2009 at 5:23 PM
Never in his life has Obama constructed an organization chart. When the teleprompter wants him to build one it will portray the dots for him to connect.
rplat on March 19, 2009 at 5:25 PM
How about actually showing up for work? Instead of hosting endless parties, insult allies, go on Leno and all the other crap this sorry excuse of a President has managed to do in his first 50 days?
Norwegian on March 19, 2009 at 5:25 PM
Sadly, the civil war ended that option.
Vashta.Nerada on March 19, 2009 at 5:25 PM
Because Obama thinks he is way more important than prime time television. Sadly, he is not.
myrenovations on March 19, 2009 at 5:25 PM
Org charts are dull! In accordance with Obama’s past practice of spending all his time ignoring the office that he is currently in and running for higher office, it is time for O to start his campaign to become Dictator Of The World.
Realist on March 19, 2009 at 5:27 PM
So the man can organize a community but not his administration?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on March 19, 2009 at 5:27 PM
Yo dawg! Bein’ the Pres is the BOMB! I get to pick who wins the NCAA title!
Anybody up for quick game of T-A-X-T-H-E-R-I-C-H?
BobMbx on March 19, 2009 at 5:27 PM
No one wants to be run over by the Obama Bus.
HornetSting on March 19, 2009 at 5:27 PM
At the rate we’re spending now, we won’t need a Treasury in 6 months.
BobMbx on March 19, 2009 at 5:29 PM
I think the plan is that there will be a follow-up show the next day and he will be voted off.
WashJeff on March 19, 2009 at 5:29 PM
How about filling out a resignation form?
thomasaur on March 19, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Obama is the Play-in-Game Winner up against the overall number 1 seed. It’s not even half time, and he’s trailing by 40 points. He’s in way over his head – just happy to be there.
Ted Torgerson on March 19, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Organize = get people excited about him personally.
Isn’t that all that it takes?
Unfortunately, Michael Steele was reading from the same playbook.
beatcanvas on March 19, 2009 at 5:30 PM
So the Community Organizer appearantly sucks at organizing as well.
Norwegian on March 19, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Barack Obama couldn’t organize a sock drawer.
sherry on March 19, 2009 at 5:31 PM
Jeez, how long is the GREATEST TRANSITION EVAH! going to last?
CDeb on March 19, 2009 at 5:31 PM
That’s just what them there history books say. Us real Texans know the real story. We are just biding our time. :)
CapitalistPig on March 19, 2009 at 5:32 PM
Not in Texas . . . that option is still open.
rplat on March 19, 2009 at 5:32 PM
I’m a Texan and the whole secede things is starting to sound not quite so fringe and wacky…
John D on March 19, 2009 at 5:32 PM
The next one could bring it back. You know, nostalgia and all.
thomasaur on March 19, 2009 at 5:32 PM
NATO Politicians – No Action Talk Only
Christian Conservative on March 19, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Depends on the State, Vasha.
upinak on March 19, 2009 at 5:37 PM
Ahhh, he’ll just blame Bush or something.
“This administration that I inherited….”
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on March 19, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Where did you get the idea he is an American?
hamnj7 on March 19, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Isn’t the fact that Obama is present enough?
Tantor on March 19, 2009 at 5:40 PM
Communists do not need a treasury department! Although the big 0 could claim to be creating jobs by staffing Treasury from Accountemps or some other temp agency. There is no need for a permanent staff after he succeeds in stealing all the money from the people I depend on for a job. The only rich folk left will be athletes, celebutards, and the friends of the big 0.
I’ve never been on welfare before; /does it pay more than the minimum wage?
calguyintexas on March 19, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Go, Big John.
publiuspen on March 19, 2009 at 5:41 PM
A little-known fact of the Constitution is that two of the largest states — Virginia and New York — made the right to withdraw from the union explicit in their acceptance of the Constitution. And in such an agreement between parties as is represented by the Constitution, a right claimed by one is allowed to all.
nolapol on March 19, 2009 at 5:43 PM
SO FUNNY!
Especially all the bitterness!
Dave Rywall on March 19, 2009 at 5:46 PM
Ummm, wasn’t that settled by the whole Civil War thing?
If not, in your opinion, are you calling for Texas or any other state to secede?
I want the whole country back: I won’t settle for trying to break off a Chunk. Those a++holes in New England and Kallyfornia will need to accept rule by reasonable adults rather than Demented Socialist Lying Twits & C++ksuckers
Janos Hunyadi on March 19, 2009 at 5:49 PM
The Republic of Texas does have quite a ring to it.
herrevery on March 19, 2009 at 5:49 PM
They move your rock, drywall?
HornetSting on March 19, 2009 at 5:51 PM
It’s not funny, you Fake Canadian troll. the ‘life savings’ of millions of Americans are about to erode too quickly to reclaim.
Janos Hunyadi on March 19, 2009 at 5:51 PM
Cornyn’s my new favorite guy. Taking the Administration to task over this is something we need to hear more of from the wank and softies in Congress.
GoodSamaritan on March 19, 2009 at 5:51 PM
…And his trip to California, and Leno, where is the damn media….oh yeah, they’e in CA too, up his arse.
HornetSting on March 19, 2009 at 5:52 PM
You bet, DRywall. I’m clinging to my gun and Bible as I type. What goes on top of the hypocritical sundae that TOTUS is eating? Wegyu beef and Region 1 DVDs?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on March 19, 2009 at 5:53 PM
Texas, as part of the confederacy, had to be readmitted to the union. Here is the reference material. No longer a mention of a right to voluntarily secede.
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/secession/30march1870.html
Vashta.Nerada on March 19, 2009 at 5:54 PM
One day .. maybe soon .. there will be another Texan in the White House.
Texas Gal on March 19, 2009 at 5:54 PM
Doesn’t some conservative blog or website need to put up a counter on the number of days the top Treasury posts go without nomination? This sounds right up Ace’s alley.
swellhotair on March 19, 2009 at 5:55 PM
Before anyone secedes, think about how much more advanced the Union military is going to be this time around.
Not that I wouldn’t be happy to legally imigrate to the Republic of Not Obamica.
myrenovations on March 19, 2009 at 5:55 PM
Found this old quote showing the internal thought process on his public bracket-filling:
econavenger on March 19, 2009 at 5:55 PM
Replacing the Treasury Department with….
The Department of Debt
With all the Debt Star references floating around, maybe the obvious Secretary would be Dr. Kevorkian.
Peri Winkle on March 19, 2009 at 5:58 PM
Unfortunately … Vashta is right.
Texas was required to amend their State Constitution as a requirement to reenter the Union after the Civil War.
Article I of the Bill of Rights, subjugates that right to national authority.
Texas Gal on March 19, 2009 at 6:00 PM
This is silly. He just would spent the extra hour in his day finding more creative ways to screw up the economy. It’s probably a blessing in disguise when takes time off work.
RightOFLeft on March 19, 2009 at 6:04 PM
Vashta-
Being a Texan myself and if it does get that far (//)…pretty sure we won’t give a flip what the union said back in the day. We will just do it. ~B
Brian on March 19, 2009 at 6:05 PM
Let me take this moment to link a taste of the video of my interview with Sen.Cornyn off the floor last month for Texas Magazine. I was very impressed with him.
http://rightwingsparkle.blogspot.com/2009/03/taste-of-my-interview-with-sen-john.html
Rightwingsparkle on March 19, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Remember, according to the Left, only cowboys and rednecks join the military. So when states start falling off, they’ll take the military with them.
Why do you think Obama has been calling for a civilian defense force just as strong as the military?
SPCOlympics on March 19, 2009 at 6:09 PM
New York?? Now there’s an idea. Can we just saw it off and tow it to France???
Or better yet, tow it half way there and then tell em’ to start rowing.
BigWyo on March 19, 2009 at 6:13 PM
Obama’s White House Organization Flow Chart
Me …….. TimboRahm …….. Me …….. TimboSoros …….. Rahm …….. Me ……..Timbo
fogw on March 19, 2009 at 6:25 PM
I’ll just add while we are on this subject that for all those who profess that the South did not have the right to seceded, the very fact that the federal government required Confederate States to add specific language to their State Constitution in order to rejoin the Union serves as evidence that they DID HAVE THAT RIGHT before the Civil War.
Texas Gal on March 19, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Silly Cornyn, Teleprompter Jesus has “Nobody messes with Joe” Biden and “what’s income tax” Timmy. And the functional idiot Gibbs.
He doesn’t need to find anyone else. Those four can totes take care of the Presidency and all the responsibility. Plus when Teleprompter Jesus leaves for yet another campaign stop for an election that happened four months ago, “nobody messes with Joe” Biden can totes be the President.
mjk on March 19, 2009 at 6:46 PM
The
MessiahMistake–Asleep at the wheel.
But…♪♫♪ the wheels on the bus go ’round and ’round. ♪♫♪
hillbillyjim on March 19, 2009 at 7:08 PM
Ditto. Kinda scary, but ditto.
smfoushee on March 19, 2009 at 7:10 PM
You start at arugula and end at waqyu…
karl9000 on March 19, 2009 at 7:12 PM
This from another thread seems so apt here, I’ll just repeat it:
The
MessiahMistake–Asleep at the wheel.
But…♪♫♪ the wheels on the bus go ’round and ’round. ♪♫♪
hillbillyjim on March 19, 2009 at 7:08 PM
hillbillyjim on March 19, 2009 at 7:14 PM
BAD tabs. BAD.
hillbillyjim on March 19, 2009 at 7:16 PM
Did Obama ever say he planned to run Treasury out the Treasury Department?
Dusty on March 19, 2009 at 7:50 PM
I’d like to know more about this “conference” system that allowed a bill to pass the Senate and get changed before the President signed it.
Bill didn’t sing about that in Schoolhouse Rock.
Jaynie59 on March 19, 2009 at 8:10 PM
I hope his picks fail.
bluelightbrigade on March 19, 2009 at 8:24 PM
I heard a little bit a couple of days ago and it might have been on Cavuto’s show where someone that was involved in the conference committee said that was just a photo op because the bill had been done between Pelosi, Reid, Rham and Geither before it even got to the conference committee.
Texas Gal on March 19, 2009 at 10:17 PM
Fill in an organizational chart…LOL…good one, Sir!
Dr. ZhivBlago on March 19, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Texas Constitution Article 1 Section 2
All political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for their benefit. The faith of the people of Texas stands pledged to the preservation of a republican form of government, and, subject to this limitation only, they have at all times the inalienable right to alter, reform or abolish their government in such manner as they may think expedient.
Sounds like we have the right to secede. Wonder what would happen? Would people from eastern states flock here to save their money from being taxed away? Would Obama unleash his ACORN thugs to start violence, then send in federal troops to “keep order”? Would the secession leaders be whisked away to a Federal Detention Center somewhere in Arizona? Could Texas join OPEC? Would Barney Franks’ head explode? Imagine the Time magazine covers and the endless MSM speculation. Imagine troops firing on Americans to keep them in line. Texas was an independent country before it became a state. How many other states can say that? Much as I might like to see the Texas flag be my country’s flag, I suspect that the Law of Unintended Consequences would be in full force. Nobody really knows what would happen and that is the scariest thing of all.
gordo on March 19, 2009 at 11:47 PM