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The Note: The Note's Must-Reads for Thursday, October 29, 2009
Hit & Run: Reason Morning Links: Obama Donors Get Posts, Moderates' Public Option Looks Likely, Politicizing Business Decisions at GM
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More than 40% of Obama's top donors have secured posts in his administration: http://tinyurl.com/yjx2ml3 Link via @srubenfeld 26 days ago |
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RT @AroundHarlem RT @AdamSerwer 40% of Obamas donors who raised $500k+ got administration jobs http://bit.ly/R27Yn 26 days ago |
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Cronyism is great RT @AroundHarlem: RT @AdamSerwer 40% of Obama's donors who raised $500k+ got administration jobs http://bit.ly/R27Yn 26 days ago |
Perky Cons
Theo Spark —
... Top Obama Fundraisers Get Posts ...
The Note's Must-Reads for Thursday, October 29, 2009
The Note —
... public option” LINK
The Wall Street Journal’s Janet Adamy: “Business Groups Push Hard Against the Senate Bill” LINK
The Wall Street Journal’s Martin Vaughan and Naftali Bendavid: “House Democrats Set Deal on Government Option” LINK
Bloomberg’s James Rowley and Kristin Jensen: “House to Unveil Health Plan With Public Option, Millionaire Tax” LINK
PRESIDENT OBAMA:
USA Today's Fredreka Schouten: "Top Obama fundraisers get posts" LINK
USA Today's Richard Wolf: "Obama says he's just getting warmed up" LINK
The ...
Signal Visit: Powerful images as president prepares weighty decision
The Note —
... Twenty of the 47 fundraisers that Obama's campaign identified as collecting more than $500,000 have been named to government positions, the analysis found," Fredreka Schouten reports for USA Today. ...
Reason Morning Links: Obama Donors Get Posts, Moderates' Public Option Looks Likely, Politicizing Business Decisions at GM
Hit & Run —
... House health bill
to include a public option favored by conservative
Democrats.
Bailed-out GM being
micromanaged by politicians seeking favored treatment for
their constituents.
Swiss cracking down on "suicide tourism."
Brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzei
may have been on CIA payroll.
Forty percent of Obama's top-level donors given
high-profile posts in his administration. ...
The Internet is a Frikkin Valuable Thing
RedState —
... USA Today this week ran a shocking story which revealed just how easy it was to buy one’s way into cherry appointments, reporting that 40% of his top bundlers have been awarded administration posts. ...
USA TODAY: OBAMA PICKS DONORS FOR TOP POSTS
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS —
USA TODAY: More than 40% of President Obama's top-level fundraisers have secured posts in his administration, from key executive branch jobs to diplomatic postings in countries such as France, Spain and the Bahamas, a USA TODAY analysis finds. Twenty of the 47 fundraisers that Obama's campaign identified as collecting more than $500,000 have been named to government positions, the analysis found. Overall, about 600 individuals and couples raised money from their friends, family members and business ...
CHANGE: Top Obama fundraisers get posts. “More than 40% of President Obama’s top-level fundraisers…
Instapundit —
... CHANGE: Top Obama fundraisers get posts. “More than 40% of President Obama’s top-level fundraisers have secured posts in his administration, from key executive branch jobs to diplomatic postings in countries such as France, Spain and the Bahamas, a USA TODAY analysis finds.” ...
Obama’s Pay for Play
Blogs For Victory —
Ah, the Chicago way:
More than 40% of President Obama’s top-level fundraisers have secured posts in his administration, from key executive branch jobs to diplomatic postings in countries such as France, Spain and the Bahamas, a USA TODAY analysis finds.
Twenty of the 47 fundraisers that Obama’s campaign identified as collecting more than $500,000 have been named to government positions, the analysis found.
Overall, about 600 individuals and couples raised money from their friends, family members and business associates to help fund ...
Obama Spoils System Champ
Outside The Beltway | OTB —
... A USA Today report that “Nearly a year after he was elected on a pledge to change business-as-usual in Washington, Obama also has taken a cue from his predecessors and appointed fundraisers to coveted ambassadorships” and in fact has done so at “a rate higher than any president in more than four decades” combined with story in ...
No Bundler Left Behind
Michelle Malkin —
... and USA Today shed more light on the money men and women with access to the White House. Same old, same old. The Obama White House: Bundlers’ paradise by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2009 Like Captain Renault in Casablanca, I am ...
Hope And Pocket Change
Shot in the Dark —
Remember when the Administration was going to change the way things were done in Washington ? More than 40% of President Obama’s top-level fundraisers have secured posts in his administration, from key executive branch jobs to diplomatic postings in countries such as France, Spain and the ...
