From Little ACORNs…
Yesterday I asked if we were watching another Watergate growing right before our eyes. This morning, I woke to find the little scandal had risen like bread dough during the night (via memeorandum).
Like a certain cowardly Great Dane might say, “Rut Roh, Robama!” Firing one Inspector General under suspicious circumstances is one thing, but two? And stonewalling a third?
That’s the sort of thing that gets you flashing the “V for Victory” sign as you board Marine One for the last time.
It’s also what Pulitzer Prizes are made of, which is why I don’t think it’ll be long at all before some enterprising journalist not named Byron York starts looking into the story in earnest. I’m not talking about the gelded syncophants who work here, but other people who have been known to commit acts of journalism betimes. If such a person were to team up with a media outlet with a reasonable amount of ready cash who knows what might happen? No man can say.
I hear the weather’s quite nice in Sacramento this time of year, for what that’s worth.
For more Washington-bound journalists, there’s digging to be done as well.
It has not gone unnoticed among some Republicans on Capitol Hill that First Lady Michelle Obama’s former chief of staff, Jackie Norris, recently stepped down from her White House position to become head of the Corporation for National and Community Service. According to White House sources, Norris and Obama have already discussed how AmeriCorps could fit into the First Lady’s volunteerism projects.
According to White House sources, Norris’s shift to the CNCS was discussed not only with the First Lady, but also with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. “Her move was not done just give her a safe landing,” says one White House aide. “We have a very clear agenda and a lot of plans for that organization; we wouldn’t be giving it the resources that we are if we didn’t.”
Those resources amount to more that $6 billion in funds, and those plans include turning AmeriCorps into a supersized, taxpayer-funded ACORN-like organization, focused on the Obama Administration’s policy agenda, including health care reform, targeted stimulus spending, and possible work on the upcoming U.S. census in 2010.
Hmmm…corruption, cronyism, and a $6 billion pool of money from which certain beaks might drink their fill. It reminds me of that saying, “From little ACORNs, mighty scandals grow“.
See also Sister Toldjah and Dan Collins.
Other Posts of Interest:
- Do We Have Another Watergate On Our Hands?
- Rahm Emanuel May Be a Great Attack Dog, But He’s A Rotten Chief of Staff
- The Administration’s Response to the AIG Bonuses Smell Like Desperation
Category: Featured, Political Pontifications, President Barack Obama
None of this surprises me at all. The Obama's have been neck deep in shady stuff for a good deal of their careers. Michelle O patient dumping? Mysterious tripling of her salary when Barry got elected senator for a job she hardly did?
And Barry himself firing people that are preventing his massive forced volunteer organizations to push his agenda?
NO SURPRISE. We have to work 100 times as hard to cut his power out at the knees. Majorities in House and Senate. Defeat in 2012. Don't EVER let anyone tell you that Barry is undefeatable. He is NOT guaranteed a second term, and the climate is definitely shifting in our favor.
Many of his big policy initiatives are losing steam already. Health care public option? Losing support fast. Cap and Tax? Losing support fast. He's losing gay support rapidly because he's actually sticking to what he said during the campaign. (Silly gays thought he was just lying to get support, like he did in so many other areas.) His waffling on foreign policiy is a major vulnerability as well. Massive deficits that he signed into law that aren't working, massive power-grabs and shady firings.. Its all adding up.
He's VERY vulnerable and if he keeps up with the track record he has now, accompanied by near constant television exposure, I imagine people are going to be SICK of him by 2012. Add to that the fact that they can't elect the "First black president," you can strike that novelty off the list of pro's going for him. And imagine if Palin comes back stronger than ever. We'd have:
1: A popular personality able to attract tens of thousands of people no matter where she goes (even Liberal havens like New York)
2: First woman presidential candidate
3: A REAL person, not some Beltway elitist born and bred to become a national politician by Harvard/Yale
4: A strong fighter of corruption and supporter of good ethics, which Obama has shown a clear weakness on.
And what will they have? A washed up, mediocre fool. Carter Redux. I can't WAIT until 2012.
Then don’t – start pushing now for 2010. Gotta get those Dems out of the majority…
Their corruption is appalling.
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