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Call Me Cynical

USA Today:

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner picked a former Goldman Sachs lobbyist as a top aide Tuesday, the same day he announced rules aimed at reducing the role of lobbyists in agency decisions....

Melanie Sloan, executive director of the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said President Obama was retreating from his own ethics rules barring lobbyists from working on the issues they lobbied about during the previous two years. "It makes it appear that they are saying one thing and doing another," she said.

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Jay C.| 1.28.09 @ 11:57AM

Methinks that as time marches forward the amount of gripes about His hypcrisy and His shortcomings would outnumber the adulation before he was elected. It's like that old folk wisdom about sex and marriage: given the total number of times you do it with your future spouse before you get married, that number will never be matched by the number of times you do it after the wedding.

WJO| 1.28.09 @ 12:17PM

In the interests of efficiency why not just print up a new form for these Obama Indulgences? We're going to need them.

Apparently, everyone is "essential" to this Administration. Conveniently, Mr. Obama has the power provided to St. Peter to forgive their sins.

Crusader| 1.28.09 @ 2:17PM

Allah must've abrogated that rule. Hey, it worked for Mohammed.

sidnee| 12.12.09 @ 12:46PM

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