Obama & Co. "Making Offers You Can't Refuse"

Michelle Malkin has a new book on the best sellers list. "Culture of Corruption: Obama and his team of tax cheats, crooks and cronies".

Her piece today "Bully Boys a Brief History of White House Thuggery" outlines Obama's brass knuckles style of Chicago politics as usual in brief detail.

"Six months into the Obama administration, it should now be clear to all Americans: Hope and Change came to the White House wrapped in brass knuckles.

Ask the Congressional Budget Office. Last week, President Obama spilled the beans on the Today Show that he had met with CBO director Douglas Elmendorf – just as the number-crunchers were casting ruinous doubt on White House cost-saving claims. Yes, question the timing. The CBO is supposed to be a neutral score-keeper – not a water boy for the White House. But when the meeting failed to stop the CBO from issuing more analysis undercutting the health care savings claims, Obama’s budget director Peter Orszag played the heavy.

Orszag warned the CBO in a public letter that it risked feeding the perception that it was “exaggerating costs and underestimating savings.” Message: Leave the number-fudging to the boss. Capiche?

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