So here we go again, only the slant has changed. Unreal. Look for your selves, I am exhausted after reading the links; reading about locked files, refused records, fines, court decisions, qwest field hidden studies morfe colurt sdecsions and fines, more financing skullduggery, to say nothing of the ballots and lack transparency, etc…this is now into full blown embarrassment now.


Hot Air Blog Archive Obama names “most fined” Washington State bureaucrat to HUD


So what the FUCK!!!!!!!!!!! Is the yardstick for a governmental appointment or chance at a position now? You must be involved in some impropriety etc….is that the benchmark now?

Oh and rumors have it that Hilda Solis is up next, for what maybe nefarious dealings with the SEIU...



okay I feel bettttttter now, my Soma is kicking in.....ahhhhhhhh

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we keep forgetting that the O is looking at people from a Chicago perspective. none of these people's problems would raise an eyebrow in comparison to Chicago politicians. I'm sure he's totally baffled by all the fuss.

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"Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others."

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I think you're getting upset about something relatively minor. Some guy showed up asking for copies of studies regarding the creation of a new football field in Seattle. King County, of which Ron Sims was the County Executive, "repeatedly deceived and misinformed Yousoufian for years." The guy was awarded $5 for every day he didn't receive the information. The fine was then bumped up to $15 for every day. Now the guy is appealing again to try and get more money.

Based on your capitalization of the word "fuck," and the 11 exclamations points that follow, you appear to be quite put off by the fact that a Washington county is being sued because Armen Yousoufian didn't get the information he wanted regarding a new football stadium.

I agree that what the county did was wrong. And because Ron Sims was the County Executive, he should bear most of the responsibility. But it's quite misleading of Hot Air to essentially declare Ron Sims the "most fined" Washington State bureaucrat when the size of the county's fine hasn't even been determined, and such discrepancies have virtually no impact on whether or not he's capable of being deputy secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

I suppose, through a similar line of reasoning, one could argue that because the state of Florida was forced to settle with the NAACP and the ACLU after the 2000 election regarding voting irregularities, governor Jeb Bush should be precluded from holding any office equal to or greater than deputy secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

I will admit, however, that I'd be much happier if all of these appointees had no discrepancies whatsoever on any of their records. Also, I think those calling for Tom Daschle's removal-from-consideration might be regretting doing so if he's replaced by Howard Dean (who's name is being batted about).

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I also think Ezra Klein provided an interesting perspective on the problems Obama has had with these appointments:

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if he knew these people were dirty then why nominate them ? thats the purpose of vetting.

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"Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others."

Ayn Rand

Keep in mind the questions asked on the Obama admin's applications to get a "peon" job with them. Evidently the executive positions have an application with NO questions.

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But it turns out that Obama's words, well, mattered. They made it harder to ignore scandal, as the Bush administration had done. The endlessly long vetting forms forcing deep tax and income transparency, which in turn uncovered embarrassments that would never have emerged under past regimes.

This has made for a more troubled transition, but will probably also result in a cleaner administration. For all the embarrassments, this, in a concrete sense, is what change looks like. It's not an administration that decides to be clean so much as one that has little choice in the matter.

I mean are you *ucking kidding em with this rfk? come on man....

Change my ass, so now there is some congratulations due him for running the campaign he did, Oh and don’t forget, of course that- drum roll please-“words matter”.
Hes being held accountable see; “it works”!!!
The One has done it again….by being sloppy and duplicitous, he actually facilitated a parable…messiah be praised… hes still the One!!!!!



Talk about tortured logic Throw in the usual “bush scandal” attempting to buck up some off brand verisimilitude to buttress a weak case, he sounds like he trying to convince himself he still did the right thing by voting for obama, hoping to tease out some strangled logic that will, like aroma therapy and the Columbia review, help him live with himself.

I see this as the usual; off the hook because the environment is bad" liberal weenie roast, there ios no personal responsibility anymore, the system is to toxic you see, ipso Tom had become bad because well, the system is bad. Let us pray.

He should stick with making his "mean" kung pao, and add plenty of spice, he needs a wake up call for god sakes.


Oh, Yes it’ll be cleaner ( well that is except for geithner, and well the 14 waivers hes written since his much hailed and slobbered over rule against lobbyists etc. )

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But that's part of the point. He set the bar so high for himself, by promoting virtually unrestrained transparency and the "strictest, most far-reaching ethics rules of any transition in history," that any discrepancies on the part of his appointments and the "waivers" he has given to certain individuals make him look considerably worse than if he'd just said, "We're going to hold ourselves to the same standard as every other president, rather than try and set the bar higher."

I'm not saying that violating his own standards is acceptable. I just think he set the bar too high with some of these rules. Had he implemented rules that weren't so focused on transparency and ethics, we'd probably just shrug our shoulders and say, "That's about on par for the political game." Instead, because he's setting such a high standard, many are more upset that certain violations are taking place than they would be otherwise.

I think it would have been more politically convenient for him to not implement these rules. However, by doing so, he now has to answer any time any of them are violated. Had he taken the politically convenient route, the electorate would only be able to really criticize him for completing actions that all presidents complete. Instead, they're now able to criticize him for violating new standards that he, himself, implemented.

I am of the opinion (and I can certainly see how some would disagree with this) that I'd rather have a president who sets the bar high and, therefore, has to answer to the electorate when he doesn't meet his own standards, rather than a president who sets the bar low and, therefore, has little trouble meeting the standards.

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I actually choked while laughing at this.