Change you can believe in. Yeah right!
Simon Heffer writes a column in The Telegraph on the race for the White House in 2012. In that column he wrote this as well:-
The promise of change already rings hollow
The scandal of bonuses being paid out of public money to senior executives of AIG, the failing insurance conglomerate, sealed a horrid week for the administration, and for Timothy Geithner, the Treasury Secretary.
Senator Christopher Dodd, a Democrat who chairs the committee that is supposed to scrutinise such things, denied amending the stimulus legislation to allow the bonuses to be paid. He was lying, as he now admits. He was in fact bullied into it by administration officials, for reasons that remain unclear. Both Senator Dodd and President Obama had donations from AIG to their campaigns of more than $100,000 last year, which may or may not have anything to do with it.
Those of us who watched the Obama campaign at close quarters, and heard all the flannel about new dawns and decency, were unsurprised that this sort of flagrant dishonesty should become apparent so early in the day.
The buck seems, however, to be stopping with Mr Geithner, who has his job despite an admission of tax avoidance, and whose team still has vacancies because of the unsuitability of those chosen. “Change you can believe in” doesn’t quite do this state of affairs justice, does it?
Why is Adam not surprised. This administration is floundering.
Elsewhere in his column Heffer wrote:-
There are whispers around the political and business class here that if Mr Obama is not careful, he will emulate Jimmy Carter, and be a one-term president.
Now Adam is sure Heffer does not read this blog, but Adam came to a similar conclusion a while ago. Indeed, Adam made a similar comment yesterday.
Obama and his team are not governing. They are just reacting and reacting poorly. This administration exhibits little leadership, except in zeal for campaigning rather than addressing issues.
FIRST SPOUSE SURE KNOWS HER HISTORY. WHEN CONFRONTED ABOUT THE FOOD SHE SERVED AT A WASHINGTON DC SOUP KITCHERN, SHE SHOUTED “..LET THEM EAT RISOTTO–BUT MAKE IT PIEMONTESE; I DON’T LIKE IT ALA MILANESE.”
Further, if Obama does not veto the proposed special tax law then we have seen the US start down the slippery slope of McCarthy style witch-hunts ending in a Chavez style presidency.
The Obama administration are a bunch of clowns.. it was obvious a year ago, but the public wanted a cleanout.
Somehow, this administration has jumped a decade to a point where it’s as bad as Labour here was in 2008.. incompetent, greedy, stupid, arrogant and have a complete tin ear for whats going on.
It was clearly explained that the AIG bonusses were not being paid to the people who stuffed up, but to the people who are managing the loss down. Already they’ve got that loss down from $2.7 trillion to $1.6.. and now they catch crap from the administration. If they walk we can forget about an end to the recession.. AIG is that big and the Presidents false rage that stupid.
JC