Monday, November 17, 2008

Fannie Mae Lobbyist Named As Joe Biden's Chief of Staff...

"CHANGE" you say?
lol...
NY Times:
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday named Ronald A. Klain, a former lobbyist and Clinton White House lawyer, as chief of staff to Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.

His selection is one of several early appointments to Mr. Obama’s White House and transition staff that calls attention to the limits of Mr. Obama’s sweeping self-imposed ethics rules, laid out to fulfill a campaign pledge to “wrest the federal government out of the hands of lobbyists.”

Mr. Klain, who was chief of staff to former Vice President Al Gore, is an executive at Revolution, the investment company of the AOL founder Steve Case.

He worked until 2005 as a lobbyist at the law firm of O’Melveny & Myers, where he lobbied for clients including the failed mortgage giant Fannie Mae; an industry group seeking help with asbestos lawsuits; a drug maker under federal investigation; the cable and media giant Time Warner; and "an airline".

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Monday, October 27, 2008

Ahhh, ...So When Obama Said "Change", ...This is what he meant.

Thanks to Michelle Malkin and Jeff Goldstein

In Obama’s America, we’ll finally be able to break free of the “constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution” — and in so doing, achieve “social justice” through “redistributive change.”


"Redistributive change".... that has a nice ring to it doesn't it?

Break free of the constraints of the Constitution?

Maybe just shorten it to "change" so as not to confuse those folks out there clinging to their bibles and guns who might think redistribution sounds like socialism (because it is).

"Change".... yeah, go with that one.

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