Today we read of another St. Hoppen Change appointee problem. It's a two-part deal:
1. Obama says: "No former lobbyists in the new administration get to work on deals they dealt with while lobbying."
2. Except when President Obama decides they can.
The guy in question is Billy Lynn. Obama wants him to be deputy secretary of defense. That's the guy who actually runs the Pentagon while his boss, Bob Gates, thinks great thoughts.
Lynn comes to our defense fresh from a stint lobbying for Raytheon, the fifth-largest defense contractor. Obama says it's okay because Lynn won't deal with anything that could make Raytheon another buck or two. Hokay.
(Readers are warned against using the term "smudge" on Obamian ethical purity when referring to such peccadillos. Racist, don't you know?)
TBC.
2 comments:
Speaking of flawed appointments, how about a tax cheat for Sec'y. of the Treasury? I guess if a Democrat does it, it's just an honest mistake, while a Republican would be pilloried as the next Attila. Me good, you bad, at its worst. JAGSC
No kidding. I mentioned him earlier but missed the point that he may have been playing the statute-of-limitations card. Meaning that he wanted to -- and would have -- kept the $34,000 if Obama had failed in his search for a competent treasury secretary who was not a tax cheat.
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