obama administration

per CNN: Tax issues prompt Obama nominee to withdraw No, not that one. Or that one. THIS one: Gah. Am I the only person in this whole blessed nation that actually pays his taxes?! Is there not one person who can be tapped for a cabinet position -- or head a committe in Congress -- that...

For anyone who wants to keep score of Obama's promises: http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/ http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/01/keep_track_of_obamas_promises.php No broken promises and six kept promises so far according to the first one! :D

Obama Starts Reversing Bush Policies Alarmed? Relieved? Pleasantly suprised? Meh?

Lets be honest folks. Bush screwed up...soooooo badly..that all Obama has to do..is NOT screw up as much as Bush..and his presidency will be considered a success. Bush left Obama such a hole to dig out of. Just get us out of this hole..and the people will love him. Bush did sooo many stupid...

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/21/guantanamo.hearings/index.html My prediction: Military tribunals against top honchos like KSM proceed, the shorties get released as a gesture of goodwill.

You can vote for Phil to be the NASA administrator here: http://obamanasa.uservoice.com/

Anyone? http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2009/01/06/obama_wants_journalist_for_sur.html?hpid=topnews

Weird. I would've thought for sure BeAChooser, Cicero, or kallsop would've been all over this. Obama has pegged former Clinton Chief of Staff Leon Panetta to run the CIA. His intelligence experience? Nada. His security experience? Bupkiss. Just a Party hack.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28493919/ Cabinet interuptus?

President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday named a Harvard physicist and a marine biologist to science posts, signaling a change from Bush administration policies on global warming that were criticized for putting politics over science. ""Because the truth is that promoting science isn't just...

Much experience playing basketball but not one single day as a teacher. How is someone going to improve performance in a profession they have never worked in? http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/d/arne_duncan/index.html?inline=nyt-per

It appears to me that although Obama has not been sworn into office yet, he is still exercising a great deal of influence: * Today's news conference: Obama wants economic rescue approved 'right away' * So far he has had two weekly addresses to the nation (see links on http://change.gov) and...

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15663.html I found this article on politico. Greg Craig was selected as White House Council. Strange name. There was a stnence that seemed quite weird to me: Seems a wee bit contradictory. No? Greg Craig Greg or whatever is loyal until he...

From Orac's "Respectful Insolence" Blog: Contact the Obama transition team to tell them why Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is a truly bad choice for any science-based government post Here is the feedback web page: Contact Obama's transition team I'll post more later but wanted to get this started.

Any predictions?

As an Obama supporter, I was just researching who I thought would be the best candidates for Obama's Cabinet if he's elected. Here's my list. It draws from Senators, Governors, Representatives, with a few oddballs that are none of the above. It includes mostly Democrats, but also a few...