Cleaning Up DC, or Sweeping w/ the Same Ole Broom?

deacon blues · #1 02-04-2009, 10:53 AM

So Obama promises to clean up Washington for months during the campaign but is hardly a month in office and it looks like more of the same: three cabinet nominees who haven't paid large sums of taxes, three cabinet appointees who have strong ties to lobbyist firms after BO signed some of the strongest ethics measures for the executive branch. BO promised no one in his administration will be former lobbyists. These three appointees, one of which is the deputy secretary of state, all worked for lobbyist firms prior to nomination. BO signed "exceptions" for these three, doing an about face on his promise to not allow such in his admin.

A new argument is materializing against Prez BO and the Dems as the economic debate continues: Democrats are cavalier about taxing other people because they do not abide by the tax laws themselves.

A pattern seems to continue from before the election with corrupt persons surrounding BO, through the transition and Blago and the corrupt Chicago political machine, and now this. And its less than a month into the new admin.

I hope BO really gets serious about politics as usual. I hope he really takes steps to do some real cleaning up. DC needs more than some surface cleaning. It needs a major deep clean.

Pressing-On · #2 02-04-2009, 11:03 AM

I agree with Michael Reagan!!!!!!!:

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You can't help but wonder if Democrats ever pay taxes. It seems from the headlines that the way it works is that Democrats levy taxes but only Republicans have to pay them.

Democrats can do just about anything they want. They can avoid paying taxes, wrap $90,000 in bills in tinfoil and put in a freezer, and it's written off as just another mistake.

No Democrats ever commit crimes. They merely make mistakes.

How many more mistakes are we going to hear about as President Obama goes about picking nominees for top administration posts?

Make no mistake about it -- if what we have seen so far is any indication, there will be other mistakes.

http://townhall.com/columnists/Micha...istakes?page=2

That is why Rush Limbaugh has every right to say what he did, without his words being chopped:

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So I’m thinking of replying to the guy, “Okay, I’ll send you a response, but I don’t need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails.” (interruption) What are you laughing at? See, here’s the point. Everybody thinks it’s outrageous to say. Look, even my staff, “Oh, you can’t do that.” Why not? Why is it any different, what’s new, what is unfair about my saying I hope liberalism fails? Liberalism is our problem. Liberalism is what’s gotten us dangerously close to the precipice here. Why do I want more of it? I don’t care what the Drive-By story is. I would be honored if the Drive-By Media headlined me all day long: “Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails.” Somebody’s gotta say it.

Sam · #3 02-04-2009, 12:30 PM

BHO is a politician, how could he be trusted to keep his word.

This will be "business as usual" as he brings Chicago politics to Washington DC, just like Carter brought Georgia politics, Clinton brought Arkansas politics, and GWB brought Texas politics. Somehow I don't know how Georgeia, Arkansas or Texas politics could even compare to Chicago politics. I would think they would all be "small time" compared to Chicago politics.

Pressing-On · #4 02-04-2009, 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Sam

BHO is a politician, how could he be trusted to keep his word.

This will be "business as usual" as he brings Chicago politics to Washington DC, just like Carter brought Georgia politics, Clinton brought Arkansas politics, and GWB brought Texas politics. Somehow I don't know how Georgeia, Arkansas or Texas politics could even compare to Chicago politics. I would think they would all be "small time" compared to Chicago politics.

Sounds like what Dennis Miller said - "I don't trust any politicians."