Posted by
Always To The Right on Monday, February 02, 2009 2:23:43 PM
Too bad the American media hasn’t kept as close an eye on Barack Obama and his promises to clean up government as the Times of India
has. Noting that Obama has already issues 17 exceptions to his
no-lobbyist rules in the first two weeks of his inauguration, they
wonder how it could worse
Well, that’s Hope and ChangeTM, isn’t it? When anyone has to issue more than a waiver a day
on any standard, it ceases being a standard and becomes a joke. The
no-lobbyist rule has become just that — an ironic joke on all of the
saps who fell for Obama’s populist pap over the last two years.
Why do we have to go to the Times of India to hear how many
exceptions to this rule Obama has invoked? If the Bush administration
had publicly imposed such a restriction on itself and then quietly
ignored it, we’d hear endless editorials about Bush’s hypocrisy and the
influence of the rich and powerful on his administration. We heard
exactly that when Dick Cheney assembled a group of advisors, without government positions or enforcement authority,
to help him build an energy policy during the first term. Some
watchdog groups went to court to force Cheney to reveal their names so
that they could make that exact point.
But Obama appointing lobbyist after lobbyist to government
positions, with enforcement power, despite his promise not to do that
at all? Crickets chirp among the American media. I guess they’ve
outsourced their Truth-to-Power divisions to India.