Friday, January 7, 2011

Corruption In The Obama white house? What A Silly Question

Tomothy Carney of the Washington Examiner lists the different corruption episodes in the Obama administration:
Ex Google lobbyist Andrew McLaughlin working as the No. 2 tech policy guy in the White House discussing net neutrality with Google lobbyists (registered and unregistered) while Google stood to profit from the administration's Net Neutrality rules.
Former Goldman Sachs lobbyist Mark Patterson taking
a job as Treasury Department chief of staff within 9 months of his work for Goldman.
Former H&R Block CEO Mark Ernst being
hired by Obama's IRS and then writing new regulations on tax prep -- regulations that H&R Block has endorsed, and that will help H&R Block.
Obama officials
meeting off campus for official business for the sake of avoiding the Presidential Records Act.
And this nugget from the
same NYTimes piece: "Two lobbyists also cited instances in which the White House had suggested that a job candidate be “deregistered” as a lobbyist in Senate records to avoid violating the administration’s hiring restrictions."
The
firing of AmeriCorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin. As my colleague Byron York has explained: "The method of Walpin's firing could be a violation of the 2008 Inspectors General Reform Act, which requires the president to give Congress 30 days' notice, plus an explanation of cause, before firing an inspector general."
Giving a car company (Chrysler) to a political entity that spent millions to get you elected. This deal
involved alleged threats by a since-indicted car czar to knee-cap investors who didn't want to agree to the White House's deal. Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/01/their-corruption-obama-administration-including-video-me-vs-jonat#ixzz1AQdYfvox
Carney says the Obama administration is not in the top two corrupt administrations in the Country's history. But after two years, he is probably in the top 5 and very close to the most corrupt. He already is the worst president ever, beating out Jimmy Carter, he might as well go for being the most corrupt. Being a narcissist, he always has to be number 1.

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