[JAKE TAPPER UPDATE] Bill The Judas Is Dropping Out
By SusanUnPC on January 4, 2009 at 7:00 PM in Current Affairs
(bumped up by SusanUnPC)
UPDATE: Jake Tapper has the behind-the-scenes good stuff in “Obama Team Feels Richardson Wasn’t Forthcoming About Investigation Before Being Offered Commerce.” [I've just added quotes from Jake's article below the fold.]
(H/T American Girl In Italy!)
Pay-to-play, pay-to-play, pay-to-play, pay-to-play, pay-to-play, … GOD! Where have I heard THAT phrase before? (See section below the fold.)
Richardson to withdraw as Commerce secretary:
New Mexico governor cites pending investigation of business dealings
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, tapped in December by President-elect Barack Obama to serve as secretary of Commerce, has withdrawn his name for the position, citing a pending investigation into a company that has done business with his state.
“Let me say unequivocally that I and my Administration have acted properly in all matters and that this investigation will bear out that fact,” he said Sunday in a report by NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell. “But I have concluded that the ongoing investigation also would have forced an untenable delay in the confirmation process.”
A federal grand jury is investigating how a California company that contributed to Richardson’s political activities won a lucrative New Mexico state contract. …
The Jake Tapper update is at the end.
SNIFF! GET YOUR HANKIES OUT!
A person familiar with the proceedings has told The Associated Press that the grand jury is looking into possible “pay-to-play” dealings between CDR Financial Products and someone in a position to push the contract through with the state of New Mexico.
Richardson said he plans to continue in his role as governor. “I appreciate the confidence President-elect Obama has shown in me, and value our friendship and working partnership. I told him that I am eager to serve in the future in any way he deems useful. And like all Americans, I pray for his success and the success of our beloved country.”
Obama said Sunday he accepted Richardson’s decision to withdraw with ‘deep regret.’
“Governor Richardson is an outstanding public servant and would have brought to the job of Commerce Secretary and our economic team great insights accumulated through an extraordinary career in federal and state office,” Obama said. ….
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UPDATE from Jake Tapper, ABC News in his new article, “Obama Team Feels Richardson Wasn’t Forthcoming About Investigation Before Being Offered Commerce“:
It sounds like Obama and Richardson had a LOT of telephone calls this weekend. It also sounds like Richardson’s “camp” is unhappy because they believe that Richardson has been “forthcoming,” but that Obama’s team did not see it that way:
Sources tell ABC News that officials on the Obama Transition Team feel that before he was formally offered the job of commerce secretary, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson was not forthcoming with them about the federal investigation that is looking into whether the governor steered a state contract towards a major financial contributor.
Here’s why, writes Tapper:
Once the investigation became more widely known through national media reports last month, sources tell ABC News, the Obama Transition Team realized the FBI would not be able to give Richardson a clean political bill of health before the new administration is ready to send his nomination up to the Senate for confirmation.
[...]
There were some discussions about whether the confirmation process could be delayed a few months until the investigation concluded, sources say, but it became clear that wouldn’t happen any time soon, and no one wanted to be seen as pressuring law enforcement officials to wrap up their investigation.
The governor spoke with the president-elect several times over the weekend, their last conversation being Saturday, when Richardson told Obama he was withdrawing his name from consideration
I bet Obama loved those phone calls.
I have a question: Who’s the muscle on the Obama team?
Not included here: Tapper’s succinct summary of the investigation. Read all of “Obama Team Feels Richardson Wasn’t Forthcoming About Investigation Before Being Offered Commerce” for a deeper understanding.
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Sojourner, you are sooooooo right. Now pray tell me why Obama regrets Richardson’s withdrawal and says he is an outstanding public servant,(when the suspicion is another pay for play investigation) and on the other hand he condemns Blagojevich and urges him to step down. Shouldn’t he also urge Richardson to step down? Different strokes for different folks? Seems the 30 pieces of silver that Judas got for betraying Hillary wasn’t the first that crossed the fat palm of Bill Richardson.
Toldja that moniker of Richardson’s would stick — now he will REALLY be known as Judas for the rest of his life. Thanks, James Carville — that was the only good thing you did this election season.
Yes, and let’s get used to hearing the following phrase:
O wait–we already know that line by heart.
influence peddling corporate whore Daschle (and his wife) next and then a long line of Chicagoland crooks to follow.
Yes we Dems won the WH, now we must win back our Party!
I for one am ecstatic about this richardson judas being called to the floor for his bad behavior.
ROFL I wondered how Obama was going to pay back all those many, many politicians who sold their souls backing him….how, did we ask, could he possibly return all those favors? Answer: He’s doesn’t have to pay them back!! Just start the investigations and watch the bodies being buried under the bus….got rid of that pesky governor and that pesky governor and that….end of favors owed. Oh, unless you are a female from a political dynasty with never ending fundraising skills, then you can step to the front of the bus.
He needs to watch his back. Payback is a bitch and I don’t think Blago is the only one who will go down without a fight.
I’m just thinking that these people aren’t going to like taking up residence under the Fraudbama Bus and might start talking. One can only hope.
ahhhh, finally Obama Is A Fraud….. I, too,am feeling the hope
Obama has moved from the land of Lincoln to never…never land.
But he’s also moved as quickly as he could to a hotel as close as he can get to the WH after Bush told him he couldn’t move into Blair House early. Is he afraid someone is going to yank his prize away from him if he doesn’t get there and squat on the property?
The girls have to start school this week supposedly. I’ll cut him some slack on that, but only that.
I heard they start school tomorrow, so I don’t have a problem with this. There are a lot more troubling things to worry about.
I am curious as to who pays for the early move, though.
I wouldn’t think that we the taxpayers would be paying as Squatter Elect is not a Federal job. Most likely the tab is being picked up by lobbyist and Hollyweird Glitternatzi’s like the bill for the Hip Hop Rappadazzle Inaugural Ball.
Talk2Paw
Love it! SQUATTER-ELECT! Let’s hope he doesn’t finish his tenancy term….
Judas Richardson always looked shifty. He sold out and betrayed Hillary and Bill…what a crook.
Let’s hope Squatter-Elect has many more…Think the only one who’s probably gonna stay on is HIll. But soon they’ll know she’s her own Woman and not a xeroxed squatter-prez phony….
Talk2ThePaw…OMFG…”Squatter Elect?” “Hollyweird Glitternazis?” LOL. You got that right.
inaug commitee
Some are blatant players and others play with a wink and a nod. It makes no difference to me what style is chosen….slime is slime. Speaking of players…how about dirty Harry?
Hill and Bill said 0bama was “unelectable” and suddenly they are racists? What does that make Harry when it comes to JJJ? Oh, right … a realist ….
Yes and let’s hope that woman, you know, Caroline You Know, Kennedy gets embarrassment treatment soon. To think they vilified Sarah Palin (who supported both gay rights and abortion rights, even tho not personally inclined; she read her constitution) and put out those dirty rumours of her daughter’s child being her own fake pregnancy….The Obamabots deserve a good Embarrassment Trail…The misogynist creeps suffer from ObaMyopia, but it is a curable affliction. Hopefully, they’ll see the Light!
Only with a hard reboot, as it were.
Another Obot mythic hero bites the dust. When he has to say “unequivocally,” let’s see, isn’t that what Blago’s lawyer said? or was it JJJ–anyway, there are some quivels in the woodpile, you can be sure. Boo hoo. I wonder if there aren’t other construction handouts in the background.
Oh well. The long awaited and much needed Destiny USA in Syracuse finally got funded! Kudos to Hillary. It was teetering on failure due to lack of funds. Destiny will provide many jobs and revitilize the area.
So ahem, it was USA funds to Bill. It IS LEGAL!
So OBOT, tell us about the 350B of illegal campaign funds that Obarfy got from HAMAS?
Are you calling me an Obot?
If so roll on, please.
I have no idea about this Destiny USA place. Are you saying Hillary was getting a handout? What does that have to do with Bill Richardson anyway? I was thinking of his unpopular “spaceport” and commuter rail projects and how the best justification for them was probably that they kept someone employed.
The O got plenty of illegal funds from a lot of disreputable types, but I don’t think Hamas ever had $350 Billion either.
no bemused..it was meant to post under the obot post..it jumped.
No offense taken where none meant.
I just read this on Yahoo and was laughing my butt off. Judas gets investigated, but Obama doesnt.
If it wasnt for the whole serverity of this whole mess and all the crazy news surrounding Obama this would be better than watching the 3 stooges.
Two Governors down and how many left to go. Yes kin this is getting to be like a 3 stooges movie. All of the junk that surrounded Obama and the media totally ignored it. Now the media is probably taking bets on how long it will be before Obama becomes the first black president impeached.
Philip Berg is having two conferences with Supreme Court Justices on 9th January and the 18th January, strategically timed.
Berg on the 9th will have the standing that would have been denied him before the Congress confirms Oblabla on the 8th. He has to produce his original Birth Certificate (not phony Certification that has on it “African”! In l961, they used “negro”–not African!) and dislose his medical records and his Columbia, N.Y. and Harvard school records to avoid investigation. If he didn’t get authorization from Immigration when he left public school in Indonesia to go to Hawaii in l971, then he is an Illegal ALILEN and not qualified to be Senator even….
Please visit Mr. Philip Berg’s (Deputy Att.Gen. PA) “OBAMA CRIMES” site for latest info….Guess Biden should get ready on the 9th and/or 19th January for some Constitutional pyrotechnics!…Amen, brothers and sisters….the Squatter-Elect may be vacating the White House….before the 20th! Now that’s HOPE and CHANGE we can pray for, eh?…
Mary…
God bless America if all of that is true and this mess of a “Selection” is fixed and we get a REAL FRIGGING PRESIDENT. I pray for this every day.
Amen!
Looks like the Clintons are next!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28485901
Good riddance!
Ok, they are vetting all of Obama’s appointees. Will they ever get around to vetting Obama I wonder.
Vet everyone except the guy who won’t show his bc and his health records. Racist! Oh, my bad, that term only works if it pertains to barry.
I dunno, but it looks like Richardson, Schumer and Clinton are gonna have a lot to answer for!
Not looking good for any of them…
I see reading comprehension skills are not your forte.
It’s a non-story and there was no corruption involved. It’s not like Hillary was accepting thousands in illegal donations from Hamas connected “fans” in Gaza or government officials in Nigeria for her campaign unlike some people.
While the media is “vetting” they can start with Obama and ask him about Yesse Yehudah.
Nobama is up to his eyeballs in caca. The shit for brains biased media has spent 2 decades trying to get the Clintons on NOTHING and they’re completely ignoring the political scandal of the century right in front of their nose. Barky is going to make Watergate look like a parking infraction.
Not so fast… I can read just fine, and this is not necessarily a “non-story”. There’s more to come on this one.
“Hillary, The New York Times says, helped enact legislation allowing the developer, Robert J Congel, use tax-exempt bonds – green bonds – to help finance the construction of the Destiny USA entertainment and shopping complex, an expansion of the Carousel Center in Syracuse. She also helped secure a provision in a highway bill that set aside USD 5 million for Destiny USA roadway construction, the daily added. The bill with the tax-free bonds provision became law in October 2004.”
That’s more than one bill and Schumer is knee deep in this along with her- seems to be a pattern of collusion possibly. Will HRC be next to drop out???
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/hillary-helped-developer-a-donor-to-bills-foundation/406625/
Nope, nothing here. If he would have donated to her campaign, I’d say there might be. But he donated to Bill’s charity. Not really a pay to play kind of thing. Poor people getting help. How did the Clintons benefit from this personally? But hey if it makes you feel better about Bill Richardson stepping aside. Be my guest. The people of New York actually benefited from this bill. There were quite a few jobs created. Not to mention poor people in the third world receiving help from the Clinton Foundation. Now that’s a reach even for an Obot. They hate the working man and the poor.
So what is it you expect your senator to do for you? Oh pardon, what you did for your
countryI mean senator? Work to bring pork home for another state?And to what end? Hillary and Bill suypport BO. I don’t get you party poopers. All for party and poop. Where is your “hopey changey” genie now? Whats the matter? Ya had your three wishes and now it’s free?
Badwolf.
Bad Wolf..
So loving the sign-off.
Ya, I got a remote controlled Dalek under the tree and
the Tardus too!
Obots remind me of Daleks
Or the cybermen.
ooh- lucky you! I really want the remote controlled Dalek.
heartland dem/repub..
Nope! I read the story and your interpretation is wildly optimistic–in getting the Clintons investigated and kicked out! Hold it, there! Not so fast. Read it again. This is just a January 3rd slow-journalism type of NOTHING story–as empty as the Empty Suit that’s on its way to the White House.
Had it not been for the misogynist media frat-boys and the incompetent cheerleading of the DNC, Hillary would now be the Prez-elect. Oblabla was running neck to neck with McCain, whereas Hillary was almost 7 points ahead of McCain.
If the Soros-engineered economic meltdown had occurred back in April, Oblabla wouldn’t have had a chance in hell or Washington. Hillary would be in. And if the meltdown occurred in December, McCain would have gotten the Top Dog’s job. And God knows how he’d have screwed up, given his self-professed “lack of knowledge on economics” and, being Republican, he sure would not have stimulated the Economy in a way to help the low and middle classes. We’d have Bush Term 3 with McCain. Now, we only have Obama’s Bush-lite term…
The country and world missed a golden opportunity to prosper and get healthy–only with Clinton! Undeniable! Progress,Universal Health Care and Economic prosperity for all would have been far more probable with a pragmatic, intelligent, conciliatory, hard-working-like-hell Leader like Hillary Clinton. Certainly not with Oblabla.
I don’t think anyone should worry about Clinton. Hil and Billo both have massive dirt on Obama and he is going to kiss their asses forever because of it. They sure made nic pretty quick, didn’t they? Hillary is secure or she wouldn’t be playing. If she goes down she will take Barry boy down, too.
Bet on it!
They don’t have any dirt; if they did, they would have used in during the primary.
See told ya. The Obots had to sober up and put on some clean underwear. I’m sure they’re not happy to be woken out of a drunken stupor to play CYA for Bill Richardson.
These bots are just computer viruses attached to websites. Skinny here was alerted by some trigger words (ie anything Clinton) and rebooted just for our pleasure.
And the bad thing is that we get the moron obamabots (kinda sounds like a tautology) here. The ones with IQs over 50 are out scrubbing the web or working on the transition.
Yeah.
And the creep Jon Favreau is busy polishing his “Director, Office of Speechwriters” on his door. Close to the office of his boyfriend the basketball player…
Scrawny Malawny: When did you become omniscient? Oh, when you were absorbed into the Obamatron collective. Never mind, shill.
Okay, Ferd, if the Clintons have dirt on Obama, why wasn’t it used during the primaries? You mean she preferred being SoS?
She could have many reasons, none of which you are privy to and that was my point. You just expel a lot of gas which reeks of cheap booze, Skunky Malunky.
Skinny you have not understood the most basic attribute about Senator Clinton. She is “scary smart”.
She Josh have Page 33 and 34 of Donna’s diary.
Bots don’t get smart and can’t fathom it. Programming, though, they get in
spadesboatloads.I’d love to put a smiley below Berfle, Esq. prose in response to the obamabots…but i can’t….ha!
Heartland dem is a troll from the the big orange cheeto.
http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2008/5/29/174635/352/7#c7
Methinks his field has lain fallow too long.
Interesting… that’s not me though.
Heafty Dem:
But, but, but – that’s not the name I know. I’m more pristine and more refined:-)
Stop the hate!
Start the love!
Who’d you
plagerizeborrow the tag from, Deval Partick or Neil Kinnock?Heartland Dem
Why did you say “Good riddance” to the Clintons after you gave your illogical, inebriated or coked-out interpretation of the silly N.Y. Times article on the “donor”….Just wondering…
I say: Good riddance to your repugnobotic statements! got your no., troll…go squatter in red fields….
Heartland Dem
Go suck Obamarama’s basketball, asshole
yep..heartland dem LOVES to slam the Clintons. Heartland dem lives to slam Hillary. Heartland dem also supports Fraudbama even though heartland dem KNOWS and ADMITS there is low satisfaction and no guarantees. But hey, Heartland dem is absolved now of their racist heart now that they voted for Fraudbama…HD is Still not satisfied though. Um uh hmmmm
Heartland Dem is a real genius who posted an old, tired “whitey tape” video on another thread. Y-A-W-N.
Yeah.
How about vetting 0bama for God’s sake. When is that gonna happen?
But I don’t care if Hillary has to withdraw her name. I didn’t want her in his administration anyway.
This way she can remain Senator and let Caroline go suck an egg somewhere.
It’s fine with me.
Let’s see 0bama handle things without the Clintons help.
Yeah, let’s see about that!
mimi –
Thanks for such a great wish list!
But mimi, that means the COUNTRY has to handle things without the Clinton’s help.
And I’m not sure that is a good thing, no matter the stench of Obama.
Oh well, who knows?
BWHAAAAA!
…
Happy New Year to ya Heartland Dem, Someone finally plowed your keyboard?
Oh well. The long awaited and much needed Destiny USA in Syracuse finally got funded! Kudos to Hillary. It was teetering on failure due to lack of funds. Destiny will provide many jobs and revitilize the area.
So ahem, it was USA funds to Bill. It IS LEGAL!
So OBOT, tell us about the 350B of illegal campaign funds that Obarfy got from HAMAS?
(REPOSTED IN THE RIGHT SPOT)
*CORRECTION
350mm
Not so fast. The article says that Clinton supported legislation of which one of the beneficiaries was upstate developer Robert J. Congel, who several weeks later contributed to Bill Clinton’s foundation. There has been no link made of collusion between the two events.
From the article:
You might also consider one Barack Obama. Obama, who voted for FISA, and was a direct beneficiary via subsequent campaign contributions from telecoms. Was he aware that his vote would be so rewarded?
The original source of the story was the NYT. Unfortunately, another Savage piece on the Clintons (pun intended). At least the writer, Charlie Savage of the NYT, made a clarification in the same article: “Hillary Clinton, who as a Senate candidate in 2000 supported other tax breaks for a Carousel mall expansion to create jobs, did not work alone in getting the subsidies through Congress. The measures had other supporters in the New York delegation, including Sen. Charles Schumer, a Democrat, and Rep. James Walsh, a Republican.”
So wouldn’t it have been better if he had a clearer/fairer-sounding title like: “Clinton Foundation donor benefited from legislation backed by Sens. Clinton and Schumer and Rep. Walsh“? Guess not, because singling out the Clintons would have made it more titillating. This scumbag should be sent by his newspaper to Gaza! And woe to those who peddle the usual calumny against HRC and WJC; there’s a special place in hell for you!
Methinks the story on Hillary is not only grabbing at straws but is one of FraudO’s distractions from Blago and Judas.
Great analysis, Dora! Thanks. Now Heartland Dem can take a hike.
Stop with the bashing of the Clintons. As always people try their best to drag them down. Not going to happen. Hillary is one of the few shinning stars of the PE scandal ridden incoming admistration.
Hillary was just voted in for the 7th straight year as ‘woman of the year’
bite it bots.
Yes! HILLARY has been voted BEST, MOST ADMIRED WOMAN IN THE WORLD for 13 YEARS SINCE 1993! She’s the Best, and you can’t argue with the Voters.
It was Schumer’s bill.
http://schumer.senate.gov/SchumerWebsite/schumer_around_ny/record.cfm?id=265017&%20
Well that’s some pretty slack vetting from the Obama Team! If they cannot even properly vet an appointee, this strongly suggests ineptitude on the One’s behalf.
“Not the Judas, er, Richardson I knew” won’t cut it.
What page of the form did he not fill in?
What goes around comes around.
Buh-bye Bill Richardson.
Karma is great!
KARMA, baby, Karma! And amen to Judas’ Departure!
“Governor Richardson is an outstanding public servant and would have brought to the job of Commerce Secretary and our economic team great insights accumulated through an extraordinary career in federal and state office,” Obama said. ….
I guess pay-to-play now qualifies as “great insights” to an Obama economic team.
What was the name of the horse Billy rode into town on in that “Wild West commercial?
…and it is “Pay to Play” coming on strong…but here comes “That’s not the pol I knew” close behind…
and it’s “Windy City” by a photo finish..
lol
…and it sure won’t be that MILK that he’s spilling.
Karma is a bitch!
It is a good day in America!
And if Caroline Kennedy is appointed how would that be any different? Her appointment would be because of her ability to raise money for the Democratic party and endorsement of Patterson in his bid for re-election.
Ah, but she’s a Kennedy, see, so of course it’s not the same thing ….
Voice your opinion about the appointment of Caroline as The Stepford Senator:
Call Silver’s office: 212-312-1420
Call Gov. Paterson’s ofc.: 518-474-8390
Yeah and don’t forget to ask how much money Caroline Schlossberg offered to
bribepay for the seat.I think, you know, like, that other woman, you know, what’s her name, you know, Sarah, you know, Palin, was so much, you know, more coherent, and you know, more experienced than Caroline, eh?
Que Lastima pinche pendejo
What a pity dumbass!
At this rate, and with the SOSA fourth in line to the presidency we could have another Clinton in the house!
Amen! A Clinton in the Whitehouse at this rate…
Judas Billy Richardson rest in peace….
ooops SOS
Billsbury Doughboy Richardson has just been the recipient of his own bad juju.
Heartland Dem–just what do you have against the Clinton Foundation? Is it the helping out poor people part or improving our country’s image around the world part? If I had big bucks I’d be thrilled to make BIG donations to eradicate AIDS and feed people. As such I donate from my limited resources. How ’bout you?
Hey I told you so…..Barry Soetoro, Chicago Cess Pool politics will bring this charlatan down. It will all catch up with him. Not yet Prez and already he is up to his ears in scandal! I can see his former drug dealers popping up as time goes on! Larry Sinclair showing up in Washington, time after time! Tony Rezko sining like a canary! Rhamn, Wright, that “God Damn,” fool speaking out. Upset Middle Eastern financial contributers, getting even.
Our poor country. I hope Senator Clinton plays her cards right and, who knows, can we say, Prez, 2012! Old man Biden, past his prime and a slush!
President Clintonshould be appointed Senator of NY. Since he will not run in 2010. Than all of Dem contenders can earn the public’s vote for Senate. None of this entitlement shit! This a Pagan Rome!
Susan, aint Karma a “Bitch!” (hope that’s not sexist). Watch out Barry Soetoro, its coming!
Wait until Dirty Harry gets voted out in 2010. Oh boy. All we have left is to oust Nazi Pelosi. And the DNC needs to give the boot to Alice (thugface) Germond and Donna Brazille donkey ass.
Tell ya’ His Nevada constituents are through with him. They are done.
Then if Barry Hussein Soetoro is in at the time he will come tumbling down.
I can’t think of a better person to have as Prezselect during these times…LOL
Tough times.
Lay it all on his shoulders and he will take the blame.
I can’t WAIT until 2010. It will be like an exorcism when Congress gets hosed of all the trash.
I guess team Obama finally had the realization that even their hypocrisy was too great for voters to stomach, especially in the wake of threats to block a legally appointed Senator from arriving on the floor of the Senate, merely because the Govenor who selected him was accused of pay for play….and here Barry is hiring the same to his cabinet. lol
How right you are!
And, this may just end Democrats control in New Mexico. Especially now that Val Kilmer is considering running for Governor and he’s an Independent.
You nailed it!
“It’s O.K. for me, but not for thee” – Barack Obama
Just the first domino
Check this out:
http://savagepolitics.com/2008-a-hell-of-a-year
Anthony
Your link to SavagePolitics “Governors Gone Wild” is….wild! What a laugh, to see Chrissie Matthews dressed up as a ‘Ho’ and Bill Richardson on the toilet….funny ha ha
Hey, I think the Senate, especially Harry Reid is are being racist! Holding up the appointment of an honest Black man from Ill. from being Senator! Those racist pigs!
Yep, they all called us racists simply because we chose to support the qualified candidate instead of Obama. I think I may rather enjoy paying back the hypocrits in kind.
That Karma sure is a bitch, ain’t it Judas Richardson?
You screwed your friends for your own political gain and ended up with nothing to gain for your sellout.
Personally, I’d like to see Karma catch up with Claire McCaskill next.
That would be sooooo satisfying…talk about arrogant! I detest her almost as much as MEchille.
Ditto.
OxyCon
OMG how could I ever have forgotten our Dear Dear Claire.. Please if what goes around , comes around take Claire next….!!! And If Karma isn’t too tired from all it’s hard work lately , maybe Donna Brazile???
Claire sort of got hers already. She couldn’t pull MO out of the bag for Zero, so no plum assignment for her! Maybe she’ll be given Doughboy’s job.
Claire got
punkedusedEXPLOITED.Couldn’t have happened to a nicer brown noser. She should have
bribedoffered money for an appointment.OT
HILLARY’S LAST FUND RAISER
http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20090104/en_top_eo/77346
Me too.
OxyCon I agree with you.
Good ridance? For Senator Clinton? Get f’ng real. That article is bullsh&t with two events that happened dont even coincide. Believe me, I know, I researched it and send the NYT a email stating if there online rag cant report the truth, then they should think about quitting.
Don’t try to bring her into this mess because as it stands now, we are damn screwed! All of this shit going on around the world, and we have people acting as if this is *how to run the country 101*. Don’t get it twisted. President Clinton put out his donors list a while back to jump through hoops just so Obama can ride Senator Clintons godd^amn back to the finish line. Please.
They threw so much shit at her in the primaries to take her down even accusing her with one of the most far fetched schemes that let me know they were equivalent to bottom feeders when they attempted to say she was waiting on a *assasination* for something that got twisted, pulled, and adjusted to look as if it applied to Obama. Live in the fairytale that is your life, but don’t think for a minute they stopped the *clinton machine*.
They released more information on there business dealings when we havent got jack shit from the PEBO. This is sickening how badly we look as a country right now. We cant even get our own government right. Who the hell would even trust any of our own decisions when we couldnt even vet the vetters.
They vetted the Clintons to the point, that I know so much about there business dealings they could claim me as a dependent on there taxes as if I am part of the family. We are at war. We are fighting two wars. We have a financial crisis, people losing there jobs and some even there jobs and homes. But yet we are focusing on things that should of been handled before.
We tried to tell these assholes this shit in the primary. We emailed. We faxed. We called. And they still didnt honor our votes, they ignored our voice, and they took the values and just plain down hard threw that crap out the door.
Instead of focusing on Clinton. They need to focus at the man at the top and wonder why everything is going down hill and they are not in office. You people, some of you, the haters, dont understand the concept that there is so much going on military wise right now my black ass feel like running to the border of New Mexico to leave this shit behind. People have no idea and clue.
It’s like watching a fucking train wreck about to happen. The pay to play crap is going to bring down this country. Yes, country. Because while they are twiddling there damn thumbs with all of this who knew what and when and how much it costs. We are distracted and cant focus on anyone sneaking up from behind.
The next election we have, take the time out and ask questions on who the fuck we are electing so we dont have to get THE DAMN ANSWERS from countries that would like to take our asses off the map. Yes, I am mad. Yes, I am angry, and hell yeah I am beyond pissed. Yeah, you might want to listen to Biden and gird your damn loins whatever the hell that means. The man got up there and sad what the hell was going to happen so no one better not be questioning who they voted for now. The man on the ticket of the president stated exactly what was going down.
But people wanted to drink the hopeychangey juice and not ask themselves why would he make that statement by saying thats just *biden being biden*. I doubt very highly Biden is psychic but people are so desperate for change the right person coming along saying what they want to hear, they flock to them like flies on shit.
At this point we need ALL hands on deck and I dont’ care if they are Democratic or Republican but we need some people who know what the hell is going on. Look at Richardson, Reid, Rahm, & god knows who else. Clinton is not perfect but she is the last one standing so these new *smear* attempts are going to get beat down with a quickness. All the bots are out in force to attempt to make this about HRC and not about the fact that Richardson must not of filled out his questionare with facts. But by all means please continue. Knowing what I do about what is going on, I have zero problems whatsoever knocking down and running over bots with CDS. Because I am very sure when its all said and done, you will feel the need to want Clinton as SOS just like a addict needs crack.
Soldier, Ditto, I hear you. The shit will and is catching up with the phony one! Clinton is looking better as evry day goes by and another scandal pops up regarding Barry Soetoro! Chicago Cess pOol is not over with yet! Blago knows alot more dirt on the phony one. I wonder what deals are going on, cover-ups, in the end, those cover ups will always get you! Fitzgerald will not play with them as they slowly start to twist in the wind!
Yea! Solider 4 Hillary, you are awesome!
Soldier – I think “gird your loins” means don your body armour and prepare for battle. In the Bible, it means wear the truth of the Lord as your protection from the enemy.
I don’t know exactly what Joe Biden meant by the phrase, but I sort of think he meant the #$%$#@ is going to hit the fan, so you’d better be ready for it.
In the olden days the knights would don their metal armour to protect their bodies from the spears of the enemy.
In the O administration, “gird your loins” will mean “cover your butt.”
Or shred the evidence.
Soldier.
Well done as usual.
Amen to that, Soldier.
We are distracted and cant focus on anyone sneaking up from behind.
Maxwells Silver Hammer?
or Ladybugs. Amen S4H!
Exactly, we may not be able to find Sir Galahad today and we had better not be too unforgiving and picky with what we have.
Soldier4Hillary
You said it eloquently, and to the point. It’s scary, but yes, Hillary will be the LAST one standing and boy do they need HER in the White House! Biden did say that there will be a crisis and he did say that Hillary is more qualified than him, Biden, and he did say that Hillary is more qualified than anyone to be President!
But the Obamabots had left Kindergarten for their lunch break….and they’re still on it!…God save us!
Soldier last week or there abouts, the NYT actually printed a story with a fake letter from i believe the mayor of Paris trashing Caroline for wanting Hillary Senate seat. They didn’t even check to see if it was real. Sure they called the office but they didn’t wait to get a reply back. Come to find out it was as phony as a 3 dollar bill. If these people had any crediablity it’s long gone by now. they just make stuff up and hope people don’t notice they are lying, they have be come a tabloid.
Can someone please vet Fraudbama? I mean, it looks like the rest of the sewer rats are getting a look-see.
WASHINGTON – New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on Sunday announced that he was withdrawing his nomination to be President-elect Barack Obama’s commerce secretary amid a grand jury investigation into how some of his political donors won a lucrative state contract.
Richardson’s withdrawal was the first (first? -naw third) disruption of Obama’s Cabinet process and the second “pay-to-play” investigation that has touched Obama’s transition to the presidency. The president-Select has remained above the fray in both the case of arrested Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and the New Mexico case. (ABOVE THE FRAY because no one is vetting him huh?)
WE DON’T KNOW VERY MUCH ABOUT THIS TRANSPARENT PREZ SELECT, DO WE?
Well, we can see right through him.
Good aim there Annie.
Soldier4Hillary – you just said a mouth full and all of it is right on the mark. I can’t speak quite as eloquently as you do, but I agree with every @$#$^&% word you said.
Already the obots are looking for a scapegoat, and as someone said on this blog once before, “as soon as something goes wrong they’re going to blame Hillary”.
It’s about time someone vetted Obama and point blank DEMANDED that @#$^% Vault Birth Certificate. He is spending so much money to hide it that I would think the SCOTUS would take that as proof alone that he is hiding something big.
This is the thing that saddens me the most about America today. That SCOTUS must be receiving fat checks from Soros too. There’s no other explanation for the fact that they refuse to do the job WE PAY THEM TO DO. If anyone has a better answer to it, I would love to hear it. At this point it seems that this country has been 100% bought and paid for by some really nasty people who don’t wish us well.
Tom Waite has written an explanation of what he thinks is going on at the Supreme Court. It is the only explanation I have seen that clarifies the SCOTUS behavior on the birth certificate issue. I sure hope he’s right. It’s posted at Hillary’s Village.
http://www.hillarysvillage.net/showthread.php?t=4426&page=2
I read Waite’s analysis, KFaye, and it made me feel some hope, and then I remembered that Hope is not to be trusted.
Thanks KFaye. I had read that before. I wish I could say it gave me hope, but the demeanor from SCOTUS, IMO, has been disrespectful of America and the Constitution. I guess I have to stick with the “they’re being bought and paid for” theory until we see what happens. This issue is so out in the public eye that I can’t BELIEVE they are so dismissive of it. They are PAID to uphold the Constitution. NOT to choose a President Select themselves.
I only have a tiny smidgen of hope left. Even if Obama was born is the US, his dual citizenship is a problem to me. Duly citizenship comes with duly loyalty. I can’t fathom that the Supreme Court wouldn’t think dual loyalty is pertinent to the natural-born status.
I have a cousin who was born in the US, mother American, but father Jordanian. It was a huge concern when he was contemplating joining the army. The family had many discussions about the moral dilemma that dual citizenship can present. He has served proudly in the US military for over 10 years now, but only after some very frank dicussions with family and the military about his dual citizenship.
KFaye…I agree with you. But I can’t for the life of me figure out why SCOTUS wants to wipe their behinds with the Constitution. It really is upsetting. And, yes, the dual citizen thing is particularly scary with Fraudbama and all of the psycho friends, mentors, advisers, etc. he has.
Precisely. That’s one reason I think Tom Waite MIGHT be on to something. The Berg case was the first one filed, yet they have waited ’til last to take it up, while dismissing the others. Why? I don’t know enough about Constitutional law to judge the merits of his argument beyond that. It just seems like it should have been dismissed by now if they were handling the Berg case like the others.
Since O never served in the military, he cleared that hurdle with flying colors! On to the presidency!
Tom Waite’s Hillary Village article is elucidating and it looks as if the SC has “cornered” Obama.
I have spent close (or more than) an hour viewing what I consider the best video available discussing the issues facing Obama’s eligibility. Mr. Philip Berg, (Dept.Att.Gen.PA) is a loyal Democrat and he’s brought the action against The Chosen One for reasons he makes crystal clear in this videotaped National Press Conference that he called December 17th.
Please visit Philip Berg’s site:
“ObamaCrimes.com” \
\View the National Press Club Conference he called to discuss Obama’s “unqualified” status and the lawsuits pending in the Supreme Court right now, conferences Jan. 9th and Jan. 16th. This is a real crisis–thank Zeus Hillary’s in there; who knows, she’s 4th in line, but the way they’re dropping….
That Tom Waite piece is incredible! I hope he knows what he’s talking about. NOTHING would make me happier….except HILLARY being our President.
What exactly does Obama’s vetting process entail if they allowed Richardson through?
Why was Hussein Obama never fully vetted??
My thoughts exactly. WHEN does Obama get vetted? WHERE will he BE VETTED? And, WHY is the nation being sold Obama with out him being vetted?
Crap.
Because Fraudbama is the biggest joke on America in our history and America just stood by and watched it happen. Nancy Pelosi, the biggest moron of all, is the one who signed the certification for Fraudbama, apparently. I hope she is now liable for FRAUD charges too. Crap is right.
Obama is a Fraud.
Yes! Good point. Nancy would be guilty as hell for the certification of Oblabla’s creds!…Please view at “ObamaCrimes.com” Philip Berg’s National Press Club Conference. It’s lengthy, but is it ever shocking! Nancy is a Moron alright….
OBOTS- Barry Hussein Soetoro doesn’t give a damn about you.
But you all still voted for him even though you admit you have no guarantees and no hope that he’ll succeed. . Stupid is as stupid does.
And Hillary didn’t kill Vince Foster. The Department of Justice did over Israel problems.
Most likely, the majority of Obama voters would not know who Barry soetoro is. Unaware.
ame
The lawyer suing Obama, Philip Berg, apparently has evidence that these are names The Empty Suit has also used:
Barry Soetory
Barry Dunham
Barack Muhamed Obama
Barack Soetoro
Barack Dunham
Thank God, our Leader Prez-elect has huge experience in international/foreign affairs–he took a backpacking college trip with his Indian boyfriend-roommate to Pakistan in 1980! And went to public school in Indonesia up to Gr. 5! Wow!
And….under the bus Bill goes!
Obama Team Feels Richardson Wasn’t Forthcoming About Investigation Before Being Offered Commerce
January 04, 2009 4:15 PM
Sources tell ABC News that officials on the Obama Transition Team feel that before he was formally offered the job of commerce secretary, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson was not forthcoming with them about the federal investigation that is looking into whether the governor steered a state contract towards a major financial contributor.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/
It’s Judas’ fault we didn’t vet him!
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/04/richardson.withdrawal/index.html
But Democrats who talked with CNN noted the withdrawal is in keeping with the Obama philosophy of resolving issues quickly.
uh … um … uh …. really?
Its never Obama’s fault Obama is always blameless.
As some comedian once said, “He’s willing to take the responsibility, but not the blame!”
That’s why he wants Hillary as SOS.
I look back at Bill Clinton and Richardson meeting. Bill tried to tell Richardson….
about da bus!
Does anyone get the feeling that the Obama presidency is already either in the lame duck zone or won’t happen at all?
Just a hunch that won’t go away. No wishful thinking involved, but all the turmoil and change without Obama even being in office causes one to wonder…
Bill “Phaht So” Richardson gets his just desserts. I love it. Now he can do that new James Bond picture.
Buzz, I have never thought Fraudbama would ever actually be “President.” It’s probably a lot of wishful thinking from MY side, but I just never have “seen” it happening. We still have time. I just keep thinking some Divine Intervention will occur and save us.
A feeling I had early in the primaries – he would peak really, really early. It’s why I voted for what some saw as horror of horrors, McCain/Palin.
You and Michelle Whitedove (America’s number one psychic) have the same feeling.
I don’t usually believe in psychics, but this prediction makes me feel better. Plus she still sees Hillary as POTUS:
http://www.michellewhitedove.com/Blog-ElectionOverview.php
Speaking as one who has in the past ridiculed Ms. Whitedove’s predictions, I nevertheless went to her page and was surprised by her appearance. This is not what I expected. I’m trying hard to dispel all sexism and chauvinism from my soul, but sometimes the dark night of the soul is difficult.
this is why i didn’t vote for obama just because i want to hear something i won’t believe it if it doesn’t jive with reality. Obama is not inspirational his speech writers are should be a preacher my ass, does he even believe in a god other than himself? and as for the massive voter fraud and the shadow government it seems more likely obama and friends more so than McCain. Obama is an evil jerk off of Dick Cheney Proportions. A true Maverick? And if anyone assassinates him i will personal kick their ass, not because I care about obama but because i don’t want my day time soap interrupted for almost a whole week like they did after nine eleven. Note I don’t even watch them anymore, but it’s just the principle of the thing. I rather have four years of obama as president and allow him to revel himself for what he is especially to the irritating bots that frequent this board, than give legitimacy to the biggest con artist of the century, just so i can cross my fingers and toes and wish he not be president cause some psychic says so. If she can’t get obama’s character right, then i dont believe a damn thing she says about the future. The whole world needs to know what this man is and i’m all for them finding out. Because it’s down right irritating.
To thine ownself be true.
Buzz Latte
You are a true prophet! Your feelings should be trusted. I’m saying this as I viewed today the National Press Conference with Philip Berg who’s suing Obama for being “unqualified” under the Constitution to be President.
See this movie for a good laugh. Classic Marx bros.
“DUCK SOUP” –great comedy made more than 60 years ago. How true! Obamarama is in there!
And another one down
And another one down
And another one bites the dust!
Or is that……another one under the bus!
ha ha ha
And to think the O chorus is still rapturously singing “We Are the Champions.”
Or:
Another one rides the bus (out of WA DC)
And another one’s on
And another one’s on
Another one rides the bus
Hey, I’m gonna sit by you…
When Richardson dropped out of the primary, I heard it was because he was afraid of being outed over a woman problem…guess there’s more than one way to pay to play…
They also say that he was born in Mexico. Do you think that matters?
No one seems to have a problem with a foreign born president ….
Tons of people have a problem with Kenyan born, Constitution violating, azzhole Fraudbama. If our elected officials like SCOTUS would do their jobs….
I must say I find it interesting in the timing of this announcement.
Done after all the Sunday Political shows are over and most people have gone onto other things for the day. Uhmmmmmmm??????????
Do you think this was planned that way, so as to do the least amount of damage to ODrama Queen??
Nahhhhhhhhhhhhhh..not possible …or is it??
Strange the MSM didn’t have any inkling this was about to break before hand???? Not possible either.
Actually the best time to deliver bad news is Friday afternoon, most people just want to get home, slip on their dancing shoes and party their asses off. It’s a long time until Monday and hopefully something else happens to draw away the public’s short ass attention span, like Britney’s hoo hoo or Paris’s latest sex video. Bush was famous for this. I always waited for Friday with anticipation because something interesting was always trying to be slid under the radar. So for this to be let loose on a Sunday when all the world was sitting down to watch the talking heads bleat about Israel…well somebody dropped the ball.
I can’t wait for the bombshell that may drop on Super Bowl Sunday . . .
Having written this, I am uncomfortable. I remember the movie where a nuclear bomb was planted in a phony coke machine at a football game and detonates when the stadium is full . . .
Not a joking matter. I meant “political bombshell.”
Love it!
“Odrama Queen” lol
BO knew about this investigation? Or not? If not, that’s what he gets for not vetting people.
What I fear the most and have posted this before, is that he will wait for Hillary’s NY Senate seat to be filled, for Hillary to be confirmed by the Senate and THEN, low and behold, ’someone’ (wink*wink) will come up with a ‘conflict of interest’ in Bill Clinton’s Library donations and he will fire Hillary. They will have washed their hands completely of the Clintons. I hope I’m wrong, but I don’t trust that SOB as far as I can throw him…..ESPECIALLY where Hillary is concerned.
I think it was this morning when I heard Fox and Friends mention something about a Clinton donation and asked “Is this a conflict of interest?” I missed the report though. They WILL find a way to get rid of her. I know they will.
When this Bill Richardson story came out today, it just confirmed my feelings. I did’t think he wanted Richardson in his administration, but had promised him something for his endorsement…which totally screwed Hillary at the time. IF BO knew about this investigation of Richardson (and he could have and pretended he didn’t…as Freud said, “nothing happens by accident”) and still nominated him for Commerce…..
Poor Bill Richardson. There he went and screwed over his good friends, Bill and Hill and has NOTHING to show for it. He burned the wrong bridge…fool.
I share your skeptical views of O’s intentions regarding Hillary. However, I think she will indeed be confirmed as SOS. She will then be useful as a lightning rod for whatever worldwide thunderstorms might befall the O presidency. Once she is burnt to a crisp, O can safely dispose of her.
Yep, the fall-back is always to blame the Clintons for everything from solar flares to global warming to any mistakes made by sundry lizard-lipped politicians.
You nailed it11
You nailed it!!
You’re giving PEBO too much credit. He’s just not that intelligent to plan that far ahead.
With Judas stepping aside, PEBO already looks pretty bad that a) he didn’t vet him and b) the drama.
In the case of Jusas, OPampers was caught off guard.
Just like in the gangster/mob movies. I wannabe crook does something for the big boss when asked and then comes into the “office” sure he’s going to get a nice big reward and a move up the ladder. The boss thanks him alright and then blows his head off while saying thank you. Poor Bill. Mr. happy Mexican thought by ditching the Clintons and licking the One’s feet while doing as told, that he would be rewarded with a place at court. Instead he find’s his a** dragging under the bus. Too rich. Honestly, someone is going to make a ton of money by writing all this down in a novel. They don’t even have to be very creative because no one could make up a better story if they tried. It has everything a best seller needs except the happy ending. So far at least. I sure hope Hillary doesn’t resign too soon from the Senate. She must know better than to trust Obama. I really think he didn’t give a rat’s a** about Richardson and planned to get rid of him whenever it was convenient.
Richardson had way too many skeletons in his closet and the Obama gang knew it, but wanted his help with the LA votes. The used him, abused him and threw him awayhat’s whst sny good turn coat deserves.
Wow fat finger syndrome. Sorry. Should read Used him, abused him, and threw him away. That’s what any good turn coat deserves.
HAHAHAHAHA! YES! YES! YES! I love that the first person to go is JUDAS, one of the first traitors during the primary. What goes around comes around baby. Bye bye Judas!
Bill Clinton popped a bottle of bubbly, ya’ think?
The only thing the Clinton’s are doing at this moment are consulting their lawyers… and perhaps their contacts at the NYT, lol…
heartland dem
Why don’t you go and consult your psychiatrist. His office is close to your Probation Officer! It’ll do you good, dear boy, to secure a double appointment. And make sure they give out the white jackets that’ll fit you…
Wait, the Obama transition team feels RICHARDSON couldn’t pass the FBI smell test? And Barky can? Wow. Can anyone ever remember a president elect coming into office with this much baggage? The walls are closing in on Barky. If this keeps up there is no way he can govern properly. He’s already looking weak and slimy…er. I wonder how much loyalty Obama has surrounding him right now. Barky is going to have to watch his back 24-7. I feel an Et Tu Brute moment coming on.
It’s UNBELIEVABLE that Fraudbama has THIS MUCH filth around him ALREADY. If this isn’t already making the Obots scream WTF then America is in worse trouble than I thought. I pray Patrick Fitzgerald is going to get Hot Rod, Rezko and the other rats to squeal like pigs on Fraudbama.
I was watching MSNBC (not on purpose, I was trapped on the treadmill at the gym, damned Christams ham) and even they seem to be changing their tune towards the ONE. Nonstop clips of Barky side by side with Richardson. All smiles and hugs…between this and Blago I can’t believe even the die hard Obot isn’t having a few doubts right about now. Well we shall see, the bots should be here later on today or early tomorrow with the talking points. Can’t expect them to actually work on a holiday weekend.
Can’t expect them to actually work on a holiday weekend.
ROFLMAO…I still scratch my head about Fraudbama and the paid Obots. That’s just way too WTF for me.
The Blago scandal probably won’t touch Obama, and in this case they decided not to go forward with a nomination that was planned; it’s not exactly Iran-Contra. Just because the people on this board obsess about this kind of thing doesn’t mean that it’ll matter much to the general population, and it doesn’t mean that this will make Obama look bad. A lot of people will think Obama took proactive steps to not nominate Richardson once the extent of the investigation was realized.
Yep,
That’s exactly what they will think. The delusion and efforts to contort the truth into anything that looks like a compliment to Obama will continue. But how long will that hold up under the pressure? His past is not going away.
It is true, in American culture, there is an obsessive desire to create icons out of undeserving people and what’s more true is that Americans love to watch those icons fall from that pedestal. Obama’s been pushed so high, even if he didn’t have a never before seen level of incompetency in a president coupled with an astounding amount of corrution surrounding him, he’d still have the furthest to fall than any in the recent past- Messiah is a little hard to live up to.
He should have been careful what he wished for and so should have the Obots who had no clue what they bought with their magic beans.
When you promise the impossible , there is no choice but to break that promise.
Spoken like a true moral relativist, there, Sparky Malarkey. The common practice fallacy and appeals to the public are irrelevant to the issue at hand. This wasn’t the kind of change you Obamatrons promised us now was it? You and your fellow travelers are just Bushbots gone completely mad and your Master is another Shrub.
Unlike you, no one here was fooled by That One or his creepy supporters.
The fat pig Richardson ends up with no power
Justice has prevailed See you fatso, slime ball
On top of this, OPampers just appointed gay marriage banner Tim Kaine as head of the DNC.
OMG and isn’t he pro life, too????
From wikipedia:
Tim Kaine has stated he is personally opposed to abortion[30] but he opposes overturning Roe v. Wade. He supports restrictions on abortion, such as requiring parental consent and banning so-called partial-birth abortions in cases where the woman’s health is not at risk.[31]
In the 2006 Senate election, Kaine supported Democratic Senate candidate Jim Webb.[32] Kaine also opposed an amendment to the Virginia Constitution that would define marriage as that between one man and one woman, though he has publicly stated that he personally opposes same-sex marriage.[33]
The bots ought to love that!
I guess it’s just fine to be a bigot, as long as your objection is purely “personal.”
*****A
Ruh roh…The gay and lesbian community already aren’t loving the Rick Warren thing. Over at the Daily Kook are they going nuts about Tim Kaine too?
Thanks, Barrakula. You make our job easy. We don’t have to keep screaming what a phoney you are, you make it blaringly obvious!
Love it!
Obama himself has stated that he opposes gay marriage, and also opposes an amendment limiting marriage to a man and a woman. Kaine’s beliefs on this seem to match Obama’s exactly. So how does this make Obama look bad?
That One has contradicted himself so many times you need a lucky number program with a special obamabot decoder ring just to figure out where his multiple positions are on any subject at any given time (or else take a stab at reading tea leaves, which works about as well). Nice try, Skanky Malanky, but no one here buys your fluff.
Yep…That’s change you can believe in? Or is it BAD JUDGEMENT on FraudObama’s part?
“the Obama Transition Team realized the FBI would not be able to give Richardson a clean political bill of health before the new administration is ready to send his nomination up to the Senate for confirmation”
What a strict vetting process that BO Transition Team has! Kicken’ Judas Richardson to the curb because of a federal investigation where nobody has even been arrested yet!
Karma has done its work again. I am assembling a top five list for those that need Karma’s attention right now.
5. Jessie Jackson Jr. for calling the Clintons racists.
4. John Kerry for saying Obama is the best candidate because he is black.
3. Donna Brazile for pretending to be impartial on national television.
2. Nancy Pelosi for soooooo many reasons but particularly her interview with Greta where she said Obama was the best candidate because he is “new and fresh”.
1. Barack Obama for being the most divisive, dishonest and arrogant politician I have ever seen, and for dragging my party down with him.
1. Barack Obama for being the most divisive, dishonest and arrogant politician I have ever seen, and for dragging my party down with him.
Right on!
O and his transition team had to know about the Richardson problems in NM—that has been going on for 4 months! The responsibility for vetting cabinet members is not the job of the cabinet members. How convenient for Tapper and the MSM to start the riff that Richardson was not forthcoming—THAT IS THE O TRANSITION TEAM JOB. When these Dems all get together at the Ball, I think they may kill each other. What a loss???? Will they make it until Jan. 20??????
Team BO says Richardson was not forthcoming – Richardson claims he was:
NBC Nightly News reported that the Obama team knew about this in advance and thought it was minor or would’ve played out by now.
Team Obama did the vetting – therefore they are the ones LYING. Bill “Judas” Richardson is the latest to go under Barack’s big yellow bus.
I’ll just bet Bill Clinton got a good laugh from this one!
Robot; I don’t think Bill and Hillary are the type to hold grudges or revel in other’s mistakes. They are of high caliber, which is why we love them. Not perfect just higher than most, integrity-wise.
Also I smell Michelle O and Valerie Jarett all over this Richardson debacle. Totally unprofessional reaction. I can’t see him trying to hide something that is already public record, so I think O knew and decided to get rid of him for reasons unknown, Blagovich not withstanding. This makes me also fear even more for Hillary as SOS.
There is no political gain for announcing an appointment that is not going to fly. No this was bad work on the part of the transition team. The TT is now checking out how each of its nominees is going to fare in the Senate. When they checked up on Richardson, they discovered that he was in deep trouble probably with Sen Republicans and some Dems. But that should not have happened—you do not plan a political circus with Presidential cabinet appointments. O should be firing somebody on the TT—the person in charge of the Commerce appointment. Would not want to be that person.
But how would anyone on the transition team know to reject an appointee because of legal problems? After all, Obama slid through the “vetting” process, didn’t he?
Obama checked himself out and said he was clear.
Rumpled suit and all.
boo-hoo. it must have been traumatic for the slob.
ouch! LOL
who do you think will replace Judas?
Pontius Pilate?
lol
Didn’t the MSM praise Team Obama for the most extensive vetting process ever? Don’t forget AG nominee Holder had to add more information after it was discovered he had some contact with Blago. Somehow he forgot even though Blago had been all over the media for days just before he turned in the info for his confirmation hearing. I don’t trust any of these people. Can someone anwser–is Daschle pro-choice?
Judas got what he deserved. Its getting really crowded under the bus.
The derelict-elect is starting to look like a bumbling fool. Hes already started making Bush look like a walk in the park. Now thats a real miracle from the ‘One’.
And Bush was considerate enough to not
fracture the English languagespeak in public every time he screwed things up.ROFLMAO Ferd. Some of us have said it all along…As far as Bush goes, Fraudbama is going to be the gift that keeps on giving…:mrgreen:
I see a shiny, new PUMA. JJ, Jr. last week. People
United Means Action.
Oops…
For any Obamabite to say that if they had any dirt on BO, they would have used in the primaries forgets history. Does anyone remember Watergate?
Follow BO’s money……Rezko, Auchi, Illinois Pension Fund, Ariel Capital, Governor Blago, Cellini, Daley…etc.
I’m so glad that Richardson finally got his. I sooo knew that it was going to happen.
Here are 3 quick pay-to-play situations Obama was involved in, now will they ever be investigated?
1-Michelle Obama obtaining higher incomes and Board seats based on Obama becoming a US Senator!
2-After a major Exelon leak in upstate Illinois, Obama given and takes on the task of writing up strong legislation to protect the people from Nuclear spills and the forthcomings from it including clean up. Unfortunately, after Obama meets with John Rowe, CEO and Chair of Exelon, all the people of Illinois got was another bagman for Obama’s campaigning finaincing in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, and David Axelrod, who’s biggest client at the time was Exelron!
3- Obama finally caves to voter pier pressure and goes off to see the Crown family over the loss of jobs at Maytag and comes out of the meetings with huge bagman for his campaign financing and links for his wife to get better jobs at the U of C hospital, and add to this Obama changing his vote he proclaimed he’d fight to the bitter end on FISA because the Crown family are major stock holders in several phone companies in the US!
Let’s not forget Obama’s appointment approvals for hospital boards as recommended by convicted criminal Rezko while Obama was a State Senator and Rezko being Obama’s largest bagman at the time!
And the list goes on and on, Richardson is a peanut player compared to the Selected next POTUS…….lol
And that’s why I say “there but for the grace of Patrick Fitzgerald go I.”
From Tappers piece;
Compare this to the use of the Illinois Finance Authority to “build roads” as define in the The US Attorneys criminal complaint against “As the Hotrod Turns” Balgo-man.
They are remarkably similar.
OH, Richardon is so dirty. This is the man who has his appointees sign a letter of resignation when he hires them, so he can hold that over their heads and if they do something he doesn’t like….or don’t do what HE WANTS, he announes he has accepted their resignation. NO LIE.
Pay for play is a way of life with Billie Boy and brought a level of corruption that would choke Fitzgerald if he had the opportunity to investigate NM. Hard to believe the NM politics could get that dirtier with Richardson, but they did.
And as a local State Senator vented in a farewell letter, he is almost as guilty, because he let Richardson strong arm him.
Here’s the letter he wrote.
11/30/08 – Journal North – State Senator John Grubesic, Letter to the Editor
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Richardson Failed To Develop N.M.
In order to speed our governor’s departure, I offer some insight:
Mr. Secretary, in simple terms, your new job is “to foster, promote, and develop the foreign and domestic commerce” of the United States. Additionally you have the responsibility to encourage, serve, and promote the nation’s economic development and technological advancement. Under ordinary circumstances this sounds like a good gig, but that was before multi-billion dollar bailouts and CEOs lining up like drunks in a soup line asking for more, in a nation that no longer believes in itself. Godspeed, Mr. Secretary.
Since one of your duties will be to assist the states with commerce, how about starting with the one you are leaving? After all, with a willing Legislature’s assistance, you have buried our state under a mountain of debt.
How about working a deal to have the feds buy the spaceport. Wait, they already have a couple. How about figuring out how to fund public schools? Last time I checked, they were underfunded by close to 20 percent and that was back in September. Forget the Corrections Department, we have ignored it for decades. Great idea you had to increase penalties and then stick offenders in crumbling, overcrowded corporate-run dungeons. We have done this before — rest in peace, Mr. Duran. Oh, remember the year of the child? Easy to forget when you recognize that we have over 400,000 adults who need basic literacy classes. Under current funding, only 5 percent of these people are getting help. Oops.
How about helping us deal with homelessness, keeping retiree health care solvent or expanding access to doctors in rural areas of our state? Every dollar spent on homelessness could have had significant impact on our budget. You give these people a home and help them stay under a roof, help them resolve mental heath, substance abuse and developmental or medical needs and you would have removed an incredible burden on emergency rooms and other services. Plus, if you don’t already know, they will be glad to tell you in Washington that there are federal matching funds available if a state invests in improving homeless services. How about getting us some? What about the year of water? Where are the regional water systems you promised? I hope the drinking fountains at the spaceport are cold enough….
I can’t lay the blame entirely at your feet for the economic disaster that now confronts our state. As the appropriating body, we gave you the money to spend, but you need to be held accountable. You pulled all of us into your office and twisted arms until the we caved like junkies in a shooting gallery. When you were elected six years ago, you had a tremendous opportunity to change our state and you squandered it. You leave our state on the brink of Third World economic status and have wasted one of the greatest surpluses in the history of New Mexico. You obtained your new job by building your resume with sexy, expensive projects that benefited your political pals and sold our people down the rapidly drying up river. Folks can now ride a train to jobs that will no longer exist.
In Washington, you are no longer the biggest bully in the schoolyard. Now you will answer to one of the smartest individuals this country has ever elected, not to mention one very angry Secretary of State. Does the deal you cut in Iowa still look good? You run Commerce like you ran Energy, and how does Ambassador to the Turkmenistan sound?
Good luck, Mr. Secretary. You got your bailout; don’t forget ours.
Sen. John Grubesic
Santa Fe
The first line alone gives a good indication. lol
I can agree with a lot of this letter about Richardson, but I worry about the writer, since he states that Richardson will be working for one of the smartest men “ever” in Washinton. Smart as in sly maybe, but not smart in the intellectual way.
lol Well, yeah, I had that problem too, but I guess he didn’t want to p!ss everyone off. And he said smart, which can mean devious too.:)
Yep, it’s what I suspected. Richardson would not have walked away, he was shown the way.
rofl
Karma befalls those who commit injustice……
You know that during Richardson’s confirmation hearing this video clip would have come up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5OUdj_YIpo
Richardson admits Obama is an immigrant (not a natural born citizen).
That Richardson comment about Obama being an immigrant just has me scratching my head. How much MORE proof do the idiot Obots NEED?
This week is going to be great for the NEW DEMOKRATIC party…Burris situation, Richardson fall out, Blago cooks along, and we see Obama avoid all comminication on Israel..
Change we can believe in.
lol
Hahahahahahaha!
It’s a shame really. The Republicans won’t even have to try in 2010.
Too bad, so sad. But not really.
God(dess), forgive me, but
THIS FEELS SOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOD…..
SCHAUDENFRAUDE (SP?)
Mel
Kudos to your post about BO & MO’s “pay for play” situations. I think the public and the honest press is finally waking up to this fraud.
Oops
Correction – the public and the honest press are finally waking up……