news.yahoo.com - 2/3/2009
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WASHINGTON Barack Obama promised a "clean break from business as usual" in Washington. It hasn't quite worked out that way. From the start, he made exceptions to his no-lobbyist rule. And now, embarrassing details about Cabinet-nominee Tom Daschle's tax problems and big paychecks from special ...
news.yahoo.com - 2/2/2009
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news.yahoo.com —
AP - President Barack Obama, speaking as the
nation's chief executive and a father, promised a comprehensive...
review of the Food and Drug Administration amid a salmonella outbreak linked to a Georgia peanut processor.
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Obama promises review of FDA operations
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motherjones.com - 2/4/2009
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motherjones.com —
How hard is it to change the ways
of Washington? It turns out it can be quite...
difficult if you rely on the same old Washington players. On Tuesday, two high-profile Obama appointees withdrew as nominees, citing tax problems. Former Senate ...
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Is Changing Washington Too Hard for Obama?
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PROMISES, PROMISES: No lobbyists at WH, except … …
Instapundit —
PROMISES, PROMISES: No lobbyists at WH, except …
The list of lobbyists in the Obama administration
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... : Here are former lobbyists Obama has tapped for top jobs: This doesn’t count Tom Daschle, who never registered as a lobbyist but got paid millions for his political connections in pursuit of preferential treatment for his clients in the health-care industry. The AP notes this in today’s look at the Lobbyist Administration: Sloan and others said embarrassments over Daschle, one of several top Obama appointees with a history of influencing government for clients, should not detract from the president’s first-day vow to sharply limit the role of lobbyists in his ...
Obama: Drop AlQaeda charges & stop drilling Utah
The Anchoress —
... And she is married to a former liberal talk-radio exec, but that is irrelevant.
Item: Unthuthers, even those given full credit by sympathetic media are still not telling the truth. Tax Cheats are still being offered up for positions of leadership by an administration that increasingly seems contemptuous of the rest of us little people, who should not mind it so much, and um…evaders are still evading. Broken pledges are broken pledges
Item: Here’s your hat, what’s your hurry? ...
Obama: Drop AlQaeda charges & stop drilling Utah - UPDATED
The Anchoress —
... And she is married to a former liberal talk-radio exec, but that is irrelevant.
Item: Unthuthers, even those given full credit by sympathetic media are still not telling the truth. Tax Cheats are still being offered up for positions of leadership by an administration that increasingly seems contemptuous of the rest of us little people, who should not mind it so much, and um…evaders are still evading. Broken pledges are broken pledges
Item: Here’s your hat, what’s your hurry? ...
Obama’s Broken Promises Were Entirely Predictable
Pajamas Media —
... to his sea of idolizing worshipers. That was then; this is now. President Obama has allowed seventeen exceptions to the no-lobbyist rule. And remember that “sunlight before signing” ...
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PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama tax pledge up in smoke
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