Obama’s Personnel Problems - Mark Hemingway - The Corner on National Review Online
Just to keep track, I’ve compiled a list of Obama’s personnel missteps below. Feel free to let me know if I’ve missed anything and I’ll update the list:
—Governor Bill Richardson bows out of the running for Commerce secretary amid questions over a pay-to-play scandal.
—Hillary Clinton is appointed Secretary of State despite concerns there’s still no real transparency about her husband’s foundation accepting large donations from international donors and foreign governments.
—Timoth Geithner, appointed Treasury secretary, hit with major tax evasion problems.
—Nancy Killefer, who was to be appointed Obama’s “performance czar,” withdraws after it’s revealed she didn’t pay taxes on domestic help for over a year.
—Tom Daschle, HHS nominee, withdraws over serious tax evasion problems and not before several questions about his role as a high-paid influence peddler have been raised.
—Geithner appoints as chief of staff Mark Patterson, a former Goldman Sachs lobbyist, who will be overseeing the Treasury’s $700 billion TARP program. Goldman has already received $10 billion of that money.
—Obama appoints an acting Secretary of Labor, because his nominee Hilda Solis used to be the treasurer of American Rights at Work, which is strongly in favor of card check legislation, angering Republicans. Further, ARW is a labor lobbying group and Solis’ position as treasurer there calls into question — again — Obama’s commitment to reducing the influence of lobbyists.
—The administration waived its lobbying rules for William Lynn, who lobbied for a defense contractor as recently as last year, to serve as deputy Defense secretary. When asked about this during a visit to the White House press room, Obama “flashes irritation,” according to Politico.
—Politico eventually publishes an extensive list of lobbyists who have made their way into the Obama administration.
—Initially, it was announced that Mark Dybul, Bush’s much praised Global AIDS coordinator, would be staying on. Then during Obama’s first week, Dybul was dumped without warning and told to leave by the end of the day, earning opprobrium across the spectrum from conservative columnists to the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle.
At this rate, Obama could be polling below GWB by the end of this year.
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End of the year…at this rate, I give him six months, tops, before meltdown reaches record proportions.
As I’ve stated before, these people are going to give us plenty with which to strangle them - and Hussein The Won himself is going to be by far the greatest source, him and the First Momma together.
All that’s required is that we keep reminding The Obamacrusade of its own statements - and how few of them turn into anything helpful or even truthful.
I loved Kevin Depew’s comment on this:
I wonder, what’s the Missus saying to Oba-Won about these developments? She strikes me as the type that would really lay into his ass when he screws up.
The Obamas strike me as the Clintons redux. All screw-ups are a joint effort. My gut feeling about the Obamas is that they don’t yet realize they’re in over their heads.
My contention has always been the One didn’t expect to win the nomination or the election. He was in it for the publicity, reulting in a later run. Circumstance led to the nomination and winning. He isn’t ready now nor would he ever. He’s simply not smart enough to know when his advisers are advising him wrong. His left wing views do not work, for him or anyone else, but he is not smart enough to package them for the short term.
He will quickly pass the peanut as worst ever. He will make Bush look good. He’ll have help from dingbats like Pelosi and Reid. The three of them have a total IQ of someone mildly retarded.
The bad news is, it’s going to cost us. The good new is, when this is over, it will stomp out leftism for a few years.
The 60s and 70s brought us Thatcher and Reagan.