Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Barker's Newsbites: Wednesday, March 7, 2012
I'm a bit annoyed with Sarah Palin at the moment.
NOW she comes out for Gingrich... kinda.
What she said was that she voted for Gingrich.
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
So let's see... that makes Sarah Palin, Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Art Laffer, Michael Reagan... (this is just off the top of my head)... in Gingrich's corner - with me - and yet Mitch Romney clearly leads the Republican nomination race with... er... Rick Santorum in second place... a distant second place.
Gingrich (and Santorum) really screwed up by not getting on the Virgina ballot.
I'm not gonna soft-soap it it, folks... so far Romney has a commanding lead in not just delegates (381 pledged to Santorum's 164, to Gingrich's 106, to Paul's 66), but Romney is winning the popular vote 3,117,886 to Santorum's 1,946,24, Gingrich's 1,817,910, and Paul's 894,959.
Now clearly it's not over till it's over, but things aren't looking good for Newt.
Should Newt get out? No. In my opinion he remains the only viable savior of the Republic.
I just can't see Romney beating Obama, and if he did... I just can't see him as the libertarian-leaning constitutionist conservative leader this nation desperately needs.
Santorum? I don't see it. I just don't see it. (If he's the nominee I hope and pray that my fears turn out to be groundless.)
But back to Palin...
(*GRITTING MY TEETH*)
WHY wait till now...???
Why was she not formally behind Gingrich all along...?!?!
It might have made a difference.
If Palin had gotten behind Gingrich then perhaps Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and other conservative "stars" would have followed suit!
(While both men are indeed Gingrich fans, both men are also Santorum fans. Hannity has actually said that Santorum is his favorite personally - even while noting that his comments to this effect were not an endorsement over Gingrich.)
This country is so screwed, people.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obama-embraces-k-street/2012/03/06/gIQAR4ChvR_story.html?hpid=z8
As a candidate, Obama pledged that lobbyists “will not run my White House.”
[O]n Monday, the president brought in one of this town’s most prominent lobbyists to run his White House — or at least a nice piece of it.
(*SNORT*)
Steve Ricchetti, whose long list of lobbying clients included Fannie Mae, General Motors, the American Hospital Association and Eli Lilly, was tapped to be counselor to Vice President Biden.
(*SARCASTIC CLAP-CLAP-CLAP*)
Ricchetti achieved this feat — getting around the ban on lobbyists serving in the administration — by using one of Washington’s most-honored traditions: the loophole.
Just as Obama won the presidency, Ricchetti de-registered as a lobbyist for his various clients. But he remained president of the lobbying firm that continued to work for many of those same clients, as well as a few more, such as the American Bankers Association.
Only in today’s Washington could a president circumvent his own ban on hiring lobbyists by hiring the head of a lobbying firm.
* ONLY IN "TODAY'S" WASHINGTON? (*SNORT*) NO! ONLY IN OBAMA'S WASHINGTON! THIS IS OBAMA'S DECISION! NO ONE IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS "FORCED" OBAMA INTO (YET ANOTHER) BREACH OF PROMISE! NICE TRY, THOUGH!
(*SNICKER*)
Ricchetti’s hiring is not a unique event. Obama’s campaign has hired Broderick Johnson, who had been a lobbyist for Microsoft, Comcast and TransCanada, the company seeking to build the Keystone XL pipeline.
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
Earlier, Obama administration officials got around their self-imposed rule (which prevents a lobbyist from serving for two years) by granting waivers to people Obama sought to appoint, such as former Raytheon lobbyist William Lynn, who got a top job at the Pentagon.
In joining the White House, Ricchetti is trading places with one of his fellow executives at Ricchetti Inc., James Heimbach. Another revolving-door specialist, Heimbach was a lobbyist with Ricchetti until 2006, later joined the Obama White House, then returned to lobby at Ricchetti Inc.
(*LAUGHING OUT LOUD*)
* FOLKS... YA JUST CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP.
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