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You lied. That wasn’t funny at all. I want my money back.
Ask Bonnie Prince B’racky for yer monie, lassie!
Didn’t NPR get the memo that Obama has a vetting team?
I mean, you’ve got to feel sorry for Baracky. Him trying to be pricipaled and all that, but he’s surrounded by politicians. He’s not a miracle worker. Good thing NPR’s got his back, and can explain all this to us.
Polls!!!POLLSS!!!!! POLLS!! For the love of GAIA, POLLS!!!
(in b4 paralphie)
Poor Obama. Why must The One Lightworker be cursed by being surrounded the wretched human refuse of the Democratic Party?
The thing is, Baracky is simply better than the rest of us. He has standards that we just can’t live up to.
Him trying to be pricipaled and all that
You are too kind.
So the New High Bar is somewhere between $34k and $128K in back taxes owed, we have established that, but what is it with lobbyists now? I think it was Allahpundit said it looked like maybe one hired a day, is that it then?
Yes, The One is allowed one lobbyist a day in his hirings. They are cleansed when touching the hem of his garments.
Oh COME ON B Moe. Like you don’t have a limo driver you forgot to claim on your taxes. Or a few nannies in your closet? Honestly, the holier-than-thou attitude I’m sensing here is rather off-putting.
We’re days away from a “everybody does it” moment on the View.
They left Hillary off the list of “nominations that raised ethics questions” but they include this?
NPR would have us believe it raises ethical questions to take a certain amount of care not to give our neophyte presidential dipshit a filibuster-proof carte blanche to remake America into a dirty socialist redistributionist third-world hellhole. That’s beyond propaganda to where they’re just sticking it in their audience’s faces and telling them to lick it.
“The word is out,
All over town,
King Baracks folks,
Are-a-goin’ down…”
Wow…I gues sthe hineymoon is over when NPR is aready a-wag about the most ethcal administration, EVAH!
But they did sneak in a bit’o damage control…
‘But, Boyle adds, “he’s also delivering on his promise to set a new bar. He issued an executive order on his first day on the job limiting the role that lobbyists could play in his administration. So what we seem to be seeing is the old way of business smacking up against the new high bar.”
‘
Yeah…Too bad he’s issued an exception per day…
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/02/03/the-list-of-lobbyists-in-the-obama-administration/
But, a smile and a nod from the one! and NPR will be right back to the “Tiger Beat” pieces we’re used to seeing…
I might have a few nannies buried in the backyard, but I don’t think that really affects my taxes.
Not that unprincipled washed-up no-talent socialist collaborators like Gregg are particularly ethical really, now that I think on it.
Bob, covering stories like this proves that they are unbiased. They don’t want to appear as smitten as types like our Thorazine.
Anyone listen to Medved today? He had this lady FREAK out about how he should just leave obama alone.
The polls are a lagging indicator of support, techie.
I am certain that O! has not gone up in the opinion of most people since the swearing in. Most swing voters are just watching and scratching their heads with a “hold on a second, what the hell is going on here…” under their breath.
It will get worse for the One. Soon.
Just think, if only Bush had set such high standards, the Republicans might still be a national party.
Bless you, Obama!1!
I don’t recall nearly 1/4 of Bush’s Cabinet nominees being tax cheats, but I have this dreadful curse called a memory.
All the article could name with respect to Bush’s staffing up was a Linda Chavez nanny tax problem. But Baracky runs with a different crowd.
I guess that “Absolutely.” is what amounts to “New Standards” at NPR these days.
Snippy needs to bring up his comment value.
Does Obama stand behind Daschle like he stood behind Rod Blagojavich?
But, Boyle adds, “he’s also delivering on his promise to set a new bar. He issued an executive order on his first day on the job limiting the role that lobbyists could play in his administration.
That may be the funniest thing I’ve read this year…
They’re so proud of their little dipshit. It’s like you wouldn’t be shocked to see them post his executive orders on the fridge in the NPR breakroom or something.
Are we forgetting such winners as Bernie Kerik, happy?
*giggle*
Keep up the ineffectual carping.
Let me guess: nipply is bringing the industrial-strength stupid again.
Hey, nipply, why don’t you see if you can book a cruise to Nome this month, just to show us how it’s done?
Kerik surrendered to authorities on Friday, November 9, 2007, was arraigned before Magistrate Judge George Yanthis in White Plains, New York Federal Court, and pled not guilty to all 16 charges.
*giggle*
Ah, so I see the talking points have been issued, so the trolls can safely return.
Kerik wasn’t a part of the transition. That came later. This is Baracky’s transition, and it’s an unprecedented clusterfuck.
Keep making the mindless rationalizations, happy.
You should try a career in advertising.
I think parsnip believes that if Obama’s image is entirely up to the press. He may be right if they keep up sucking his cock like this:
“An old story, with new actors, played out Tuesday: A new president’s team imperfectly vetted top nominees. The nominees, it turns out, had not paid taxes for household help or other services when they were private citizens. The news media and political adversaries bored in. And rather than spend more valuable time and political capital defending the appointees, the administration dropped them and moved on.
in other words, Obama may be more ordinary than some admirers would like to admit. He will surely struggle, over the coming weeks and months, with the economy, health care, military matters and Congress, much as other presidents have.
That’s hardly an indictment. But Obama’s rocket ride to the White House, his extraordinary speaking skills, and his smooth, I-don’t-sweat style had some people calling him “the one,” a once-in-a-generation political leader who could rise above his predecessors’ foibles.
On Tuesday, at least, he seemed to be trying to learn from their mistakes to cut his losses.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090203/ap_on_an/obama_cutting_losses_analysis_1
Hey, nipply, what’s Barky doing about that European trade war, the Iranians developing space (i.e, ICBM) capability, the ice storm disaster, the “bailout”, the looming stagflation?
Oh, and where’s my free gas, bitch?
Sarah Palin attended an Alfalfa Club dinner with Obama. They shook hands.
Apparently hobnobbing with terrorists isn’t such big deal these days.
Hey nipply, how come Barky gets to keep his office at 90 degrees, drive a Gigantor-sized Hemi-powered vehicle, and eat hundred dollar a pound steak?
I thought we couldn’t keep our houses at 72 degrees, drive SUVs, or eat as much as we wanted to any more?
Hey nipply, I thought there weren’t going to be any lobbyists in the Obama administration?
Hey nipply, I thought all the troops would be home from Iraq by now?
Hey, nipply, what happened to Barky’s promise to “cut more than he was going to spend”?
Snippy needs to bring up his comment value.
Sadly Carin, that well is pretty dry. Snippy will still be peeing into the wind with, “but, but, Boooosh was worse!” when the Iranians are testing their nukes on Tel Aviv and MSNBC is spinning away the most convictions of cabinet members of any Prez in history and how unemployment actually broke the 10% mark.
You know when a troll has to actually put “giggle” and “lulz” in their droppings, that they have already taken a reality break. They have no real friends to speak with, so they create this laughing ‘audience’. It’s like when the lonely little kid has to create imaginary friends.
Sad, really.
I remember this play from the 90’s. “So he lied about lowering taxes and instead raised them more than any president ever? It doesn’t matter look over there at his poll numbers!!!! Oh what he lied and committed 3 felonies? Oh look over there at the fantastic economy!!!!!”
Keep making the mindless rationalizations…
Can you even see yourself when you look in a mirror, tuberhead? Can you see yourself in photographs?
But, are you, gasp, comparing The One Lightworke to the Bushitler?
Blasphemy!!!!
Alphie has enough projection to run a chain of movie theaters.
That’s the plight of you right wing extremists, anything Obama does, your guy Bush did worse.
Do keep up the ineffectual carping instead of doing something that might actually help you win in 2010, though.
*giggle*
That’s the plight of you right wing extremists, anything Obama does, your guy Bush did worse.
That’s the best you can say about Obama? “Bush was worse”?
High bar you’ve set for yourself there, nipply.
Squirm, you little weasel. Barky screwed you and all your dullwitted hippie buddies with no lube, and sooner or later you’re going to have to admit it.
Wow, they’re fully in “He may be a bastard, but he’s OUR bastard” mode. All it took was one week and 3 Nomination withdrawals.
So, by your benchmark, Obama is already ahead of Bush like 3-1 (3-2 if we aren’t talking about transitions)
Jeff is paying you to extend the comments section, isn’t he?
Hey – Spies, Brigands, and Pirates – who could have predicted Conservatism would be failed once again by Non Believers and Squishes, thus leaving an ideological vacuum?
Certainly not me. I blame the American educational system.
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That’s the best you can say about Obama? “Bush was worse�
It was you right wing extremists who set such high standards fo Obama, SBP.
Us real Americans are just happy to see a decent guy in the office and will let the little things go.
It is a bonus that Obama pisses off all the right people, though.
“Comment by parsnip on 2/3 @ 5:21 pm #
Just think, if only Bush had set such high standards, the Republicans might still be a national party.Comment by parsnip on 2/3 @ 5:21 pm #
Just think, if only Bush had set such high standards, the Republicans might still be a national party.”
NOBODY can match the Chicago-Little Rock Axix of Corruption.
“let the little things go”.
Now I know you are purely planting bait.
Or are you not filing this year?
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Comment by parsnip on 2/3 @ 5:41 pm #
Are we forgetting such winners as Bernie Kerik, happy?
*giggle*
Keep up the ineffectual carping.”
Another democrat corruptocrat/tax cheat bites the dust and it’s “inefectual carping”.
Did your mother repeatedly drop you on your head when you were a baby?
Praise Be The One! He deigns to share our human follies!
Obama issues Mea Culpa.
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/02/03/formerly-perfect-being-admits-i-screwed-up/
The thing about the ‘limo and driver’ is expecting anyone who has had contact with government employees/elected officials to believe that Mr. Daschle didn’t know that it was a gift. I’m a government employee and I know that accepting gifts, no matter how innocuous they seem, is a bad thing. As in ‘fire you’ bad thing.
And to expect that Mr. Daschle had no knowledge of Nixon and the ‘Checkers Speech’ is beyond any rational belief.
Politico:
Baracky is just practicin’ right now, Techie. You just wait til he gets this administrative experience thing down. Then he’s gonna get everything all organized and shit. You’ll see.
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Comment by parsnip on 2/3 @ 5:54 pm #
Keep making the mindless rationalizations, happy.
You should try a career in advertising.”
What’s the lobbyist count in the O!bama administration now?
16?
17?
Does alphie realize that Barack is currently running a ~61% approval rating? The evil Bushitler managed to keep 63% well into the 3rd year of his first term.
MISERABLE FAILURE!!!!111!!!!!!
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Comment by Sdferr on 2/3 @ 6:22 pm #
Politico:
Obama is not just getting flak from predictable political opponents: the Daschle nomination was savaged Tuesday morning by the New York Times editorial page and has also been criticized by the Nation magazine, a touchstone of Democratic liberalism.”
The revolution starts to consume it’s own.
Geeze louise, I’d have given it 6 months befor it started.
#41 Log Cabin:
And *giggle* is so what little girls do.
I have a niece – the giggle and whisper and giggle is so fifth through seventh (as of now) grade behavior.
Shouldn’t we really be referring to the lobbyist rule exceptions he’s allowed as indulgences…
I mean, after all, he is the one!…
To be fair, there should be a comprehensive tax audit of every member of Congress. During the resulting amnesty, apply a chainsaw to the federal tax code once and for all.
It was you right wing extremists who set such high standards fo Obama, SBP.
What?
You’re not even trying any more, are you, nipply?
“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK.â€Â
– Barky Smoot Obama
It must be painful to know how hard you’ve been fucked up the ass by Plastic Jesus, huh, nipply?
Get used to walking funny, dude. The show has only begun.
#52 N. O’Brain:
If put under the same microscope, I don’t think the Obama Administration can match the Bush Administration in ‘Most investigations – Least indictments’.
Not if these first cabinet picks are anything to go by.
Richardson, Geithner, H. Clinton, C. Kennedy, Dodd, Rangel, Murtha, Daschle, Killener, etc…….
Almost like there’s a “culture” of something going on in the Democratic Party.
How could I forget William “Cold Cash” Jefferson and that douchebag in Florida who’s name escapes me?
Times UK
Thanks, router. So he surrendered on that one.
Good to know what a principled man of courage we have at the helm. One who sticks to his convictions (no pun intended).
Comment by Techie on 2/3 @ 6:32 pm #
But the news reports never report the political party of any of those individuals.
Why is that, alpo?
oh. Well see they made a threat.
“These are my principals………if you don’t like them, I have others”.
Cold Fury blog calls them “The Axis of Taxes”.
I like it, I like it.
I miss Katherine Harris’ tits. That was change I could believe in.
Formerly perfect being admits: “I screwed upâ€Â
The absence of vetting started over a year ago.
The vetting rots from the head.
What’s the matter, SBP?
You crackers are the ones who thought Obama was Jesus.
The rest of America just thinks he’s better than the Republicans.
Is that setting the bar too low?
Maybe, but it sure is pleasant.
“Comment by parsnip on 2/3 @ 7:16 pm #
What’s the matter, SBP?
You crackers are the ones who thought Obama was Jesus.”
[blinks in astonishment as alpo once again leaps over tall stupidity in a single bound]
Did your mother drop you on your head when you were a toddler, alpo?
Hollywood heavyweights made their pledges to Barack Obama in the video below. Directed and edited by Demi Moore, it features celebrity pledges by Cameron Diaz, Hayden Panetierre, Laura Linney, Dakota Fanning, Jaime Pressley, Ashlee Simpson, Nicole Richie, Ashton Kutcher, Tobey Maguire, Diddy, Alyssa Milano, Marisa Tomei, Courteney Cox Arquette and David Arquette, and others.
#78 is such a perfect example of projection that it should be bronzed.
Sigh, it’s a mere ploy. He’ll accuse you of raping your mother in due time, just to provoke a reaction.
The rest of America just thinks he’s better than the Republicans.
Is that setting the bar too low?
Maybe, but it sure is pleasant.
I think bliss is the term commonly used in this instance, tuberhead.
Interesting idea. But perhaps you meant “principled”.
you know like principal is my pal
Why do you folks respond to nipply?