And now Obama has appointed/nominated Sen. Gredd who voted to abolish the Dept. of Commerce twice (reported by Matthews).

What position is the nomination – Sec of Commerce Dept of course.

Could that with some pay to play to ensure a Republican is appointed and some other winner votes like against 13 million for vets mental health care.

You have shown clearly that there is a job market for people to fill these roles in a government that the gop’s say is too large. What kind of jobs did the idiot dog boy and shooter show implement? They spent more than any government in history, and even though the percentage of bribery may not be as great as past administrations, the billions or trillions of dollars reaped, is.

The hypocrisy of the wingnuts….. whine and scream that welfare queens keep having babies to stay on welfare and get more money BUT when funding is put in a bill for Medicaid Contraception health care then they scream about that……

Low income women have a higher incident of high risk pregnancies…… they work long hours, a lot on their feet 10-12 hours. What a novel concept but how about giving these women the choice to plan their families……

Employment is created with adding doctors, nurse practitioners and nurses. Low income women are kept in the workforce (saving jobs) and there is reduced Medicaid expenses with caring avoiding high risk mothers and babies……

BUT hypocrisy is ok….. after all they scream about raising Medicaid costs, increasing numbers on welfare and where is that maid to clean my hotel room?

The lasting legacy of the Bush years (or at least one of the many legacies) will be:

Who could have anticipated [fill in the blank]

And the answer will usually be:

Anyone with a functioning brain and imagination.

When Hillary Clinton walked in the doors of the State Department on the morning after her swearing in, she was greeted with cheers by the career staff and it was televised live on at least a couple of the cable networks.

Other Obama appointees may not have had the applause and cameras, but they too have been greeted with sighs of relief by the folks who DID anticipate [fill in the blank] as a part of their jobs, only to have their expertise ignored because it didn’t fit the political agenda of the folks at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

There isn’t an agency in the government that GWB hasn’t managed to nearly destroy under his rapefest in DeeCee.

Yeah, they scream about killin’ the bebbies…but they have no problem starving them and keeping them from having medical care and edjikayshun.

I did this diary back in December when the WaPo0 was about half way through the review of the various Federal Agencies and the troubles facing them.

I would hope the career staff who actually do the work and believe in Government Service in the various agencies are all standing and cheering that they are now dealing with folks who will not denigrate their efforts and will support them moving forward.

Peterr,
so nice to see you posting. .)

It is going to be necessary to out all of Bush’s el destructo minions that have managed to burrow in

The mere existance of the Republican Party proves that there’s a lot more horses asses than there are horses…

and that’s the truth.

LOL

I think they will do a fine job of outing themselves. With proper supervision, however, they will be nowhere near as destructive as they have been in the past. “No, I will NOT sign off on that proposed regulation. I don’t care what your old boss said back in 2008.”

More “fine” examples of your government at work. How long will we need for significant improvement? Who knows, I guess.

From the friends, family members, and others I know who work for (or with) various federal agencies, there is a great deal of relief at having new bosses at the political levels — especially in science-based positions (Interior, Energy, EPA, NIH, CDC, etc.).

Is it possible that POB is lining up a bunch of people (by appointing them) that he can then fire at will as time goes on; thereby ridding us of them…

That sounds nuts…I know…just wishful thinking…

They are everywhere, the FAA supervisors who attempt to discipline inspectors doing their job, OSHA inspectors who have ceased inspecting, It will be a chore and take a while.

That is good news.

Digg

One distant relative who works in State told me in August that they could not wait for a new leader and new direction.

A group of them had just returned from Iraq and were saddened at the carnage wrought in the name of America and freedom.

File that under “No one could have anticipated . . .”

man, it gets scarier and scarier, how many generations will pay the bills from the bush administration

Assuming the Republic lasts (which is a big assumption in itself), probably as many generations as the Republic has been in existence to date.

I thought the rethugs support the concept of employment discrimination, not merely the concept that there should be less regulation of employers. I can think several rethugs in my acquaintance who affirm the “fundamental right” of employers to employ whomever they want, under whatever terms they want.

Now that they’ve burrowed as career service employees they have to do as they’re told. Give them tasks that entail going against their ideology. They either do a proper job or ignore it/do a lousy job and pay the consequences. Either insubordination or a couple unsat performance evals and it’s buh-bye. Normally ya usually have to kill somebody to get fired from the govt but that doesn’t apply if the agency doesn’t want ya to begin with.

Citizen Dakine01:

“I would hope the career staff who actually do thew work and believe in government service in the various agencies are all standing and cheering…”

That one hand you year clappin behind the one parched voice you hear cheein’ is the last honest public servant leanin on her crutch swingin on her missin leg.

here is someone i’d like to see hired back:

Top EPA offical resigns

The following letter of resignation was submitted on Feb. 27, 2002, by Eric Schaeffer, head of the U.S. EPA’s Office of Regulatory Enforcement, to protest White House and Energy Department attempts to weaken federal clean air policy. Schaeffer’s resignation has prompted Senate hearings into the Bush administration’s environmental record.

from the letter:

I cannot leave without sharing my frustration about the fate of our enforcement actions against power companies that have violated the Clean Air Act. Between November of 1999 and December of 2000, EPA filed lawsuits against nine power companies for expanding their plants without obtaining New Source Review permits and the up-to-date pollution controls required by law. The companies named in our lawsuits emit an incredible 5 million tons of sulfur dioxide every year (a quarter of the emissions in the entire country) as well as 2 million tons of nitrogen oxide.

As the scale of pollution from these coal-fired smokestacks is immense, so is the damage to public health. Data supplied to the Senate Environment Committee by EPA last year estimate the annual health bill from 7 million tons of SO2 and NO2: more than 10,800 premature deaths; at least 5,400 incidents of chronic bronchitis; more than 5,100 hospital emergency visits; and over 1.5 million lost work days. Add to that severe damage to our natural resources, as acid rain attacks soils and plants and deposits nitrogen in the Chesapeake Bay and other critical bodies of water.

Fifteen months ago, it looked as though our lawsuits were going to shrink these dismal statistics, when EPA publicly announced agreements with Cinergy and Vepco to reduce Sox and Nox emissions by a combined 750,000 tons per year. Settlements already lodged with two other companies — TECO and PSE&G — will eventually take another quarter million tons of Nox and Sox out of the air annually. If we get similar results from the nine companies with filed complaints, we are on track to reduce both pollutants by a combined 4.8 million tons per year. And that does not count the hundreds of thousands of additional tons that can be obtained from other companies with whom we have been negotiating.

march. 2002. almost 7 years ago.

If you ever really wanted to comprehend how the global economy came to this point, and how everything REALLY works, you must listen to this lecture:

THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS
The Great Depression of the 21st Century
with Michel Chossudovsky

http://www.globalresearch.ress…..4-2009.htm

How are you doing Norske ?

there really should be a personal liability clause in the exercise of presidential authority… we should be able to withhold a portion of his future earnings, take his homes and turn them into museums, put a liens on his daughters’ trust funds, etc, etc.

This was one of the things that I tried to document in my scandals list.

First, put someone to head an agency who is fundamentally opposed to its core mission.

Second, cut funds and staff.

Third, pass rules that weaken the core mission as much as possible

You can see this pattern in virtually every bureau, agency, and department in the government.

Unintended consequences usually aren’t unintended.

Sooner or later, President Obama must realize that he is going to have to draw the line on creeping Wingnutism and just say “no” to their unreasonable demands.

He famously said, “I won.” Now he needs to follow up: “…and therefore…”

Unintended consequences usually aren’t unintended.

certainly not the 2nd, 3rd, 4th,…. nth time.

that smarts

The DOJ hired back one of the fired attorneys from the AGAG era, so maybe there’s a possibility that you could get your wish.

At the very least, I’d love to see some “Where are they now?” stories about these folks who were voices in the wilderness.

yup, the entire purpose was to destroy our government

I have said from the start, if a novel were written with the decisions of this president, that novel would have been dismissed as trash, that the american public would allow a man so clearly determined to destroy this country would not be removed from office

I’d love to see some “Where are they now?” stories about these folks who were voices in the wilderness.

there’s a chance (although probably small) that i could get some info from eric – i know someone in his family a little bit.

Here is a story that suggests that there may be bushies who have burrowed in that are deliberately trying to sabotage Obama
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/….._0203.html

Here is a story that suggests that there may be are bushies who have burrowed in that are deliberately trying to sabotage Obama

fixed

Thank you

A question for the legal experts on this blog.

Would it be possible to investigate the banks and AIG for violations of the SOX and money laundering legislation? If they can’t assess the extent of their toxic assets, what has happened to due diligence, and transparency? A lot of legal jobs could be created.

Since we already have given TARP money; would the taxpayer be paying again for the same debt if aid is given to homeowners?
I’m all for helping individuals, but I want to be sure that we as taxpayers are not giving money to the banks twice for the same thing.

How are the banks applying the TARP money to assist homeowners?

“yup, the entire purpose was to destroy our government”

In most historical contexts such intent would have been deemed treasonous, methinks.

If you do get a positive answer from him, drop a note to Jane or put a comment in the threads.

A little confused here. Ian just had a nice post which disappeared and now “Never say die” Coleman is up again.

DUGG better late than not digging pups!
Left ya a Comment Neuro!

Great post Peterr!!! ya know, this is all ringing familiar, though it’s on a magnitude as of yet imagined. i remember when i was working for the feds during Carter’s administration, enter the GREAT now dead guy, and tons of us were RIF’d. It was suckage and remained suckage until Clinton got in and I returned on temp contract, eventually to be rehired and had a permanent stable job again.

My bad, I pulled it back for Coleman since Coleman has breaking news in it. I’ll put mine back up this evening.

My idea of a stimulus AND revamping of the entire financial system of the United States AND each individual state is elucidated in A Radical Plan for Funding a New Deal.

Read it, demand it, live it.

When do progressives wake up and smell the coffee? Tonight Obama’s interview with perky Katie Couric was a disaster. The corporate media has framed the debate and Obama looked rather weak. Who is really surprised? When do progressives realize that what is needed is a new party that is willing to take on entrenched interests? Don’t count on Obama to take on the plutocrats head on.

That’s “Senator Coleman”. Are you so naive to think the Republicans will ever concede defeat?

Texas Repukes pushing to rename a court house after him!! WTF after how Bush ignored the LAW. Just who does he think he is?? Maybe they should wait to see if he gets convicted of War Crimes.

It’s in the same spirit as naming a DC airport after the guy who fired the air traffic controllers.

As only Repukes love to do! How ironic two assholes getting things named for them that they did the most to destroy!

man, if I were obama I would really declare war on that type of crap, first thing I would do is UN name the hoover dam, and then begin to educate everyone for all the damage reagan did to this country

what we see today in this economy started with reagan and festered, what we see today is the boil not the disease, the disease was and is reagan’s depraved redistribution of middle class assets to the wealthiest people on the planet