Change We Can Believe In

Our president elect promised us a new Washington, free from the "insiders" and pure as the driven snow. Let's take a quick review, shall we?

J. Podesta co-chair of transition team
White House chief of staff Clinton Admin.
B Currie secretary to Mr Podesta
Clinton personal secretary
R Emanuel Chief of Staff
senior advisor to Clinton's
E Kagan Solicitor General
Deputy Director Domestic Policy Council Clinton Admin.
T Perrelli Assistant Attorney General
Counsel to Attorney General Clinton Admin.
D Johnsen Head of Legal Counsel Dept of Justice
Office of Legal Counsel Clinton Admin
R Klain Biden Chief of Staff
Gore Chief of Staff
S Donovan Sec'y of HUD
Deputy Assistant Secretary Multifamily Hiusing HUD Clinton Admin
G Craig White House Counsel
White House Special Counsel Clinton Admin
M Sutphen Deputy Chief of Staff
Deputy Assistant to Sandy Burger Clinton Admin
S Rice Ambassador to the UN
Ass't Sec'y of State for African Affairs Clinton Admin
T Daschle Sec'y Health and Human Services
Former Senate majority leader
L Summers Director White House National Economic Counsel
Secretary of Treasury Clinton Admin
E Holder Attorney General
US Deputy Attorney General Clinton Admin
L Panetta Director of CIA
White House Chief of Staff Clinton Admin
T Geithner Secretary of Treasury
Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs Clinton Admin
H Clinton Secretary of State
former First Lady Clinton Admin.


In addition, we have someone nominated for Secretary of the Treasury, and who is thus the head of the IRS, who "forgets" to pay certain taxes for multiple years, in spite of the fact that the IMF for whom he works, specifically advises all employees that the taxes are the workers responsibility, and even sends out quarterly reports to assist them in those payments. Additionally, he then gets AND ACCEPTS reimbursement for those taxes that he never paid. Hey, it's a sweet deal if you can get it. A word of advice here...don't try this at home. It only works if you are one of those special people for whom the rules don't apply.

We also get an "energy czar" who is a member of a Socialist group whose goals are to reduce our economy to protect the world, who is also a board member of a "carbon credit" company, while her husband lobbies for major oil companies!

Let us not overlook the nominee for Attorney General, a man who pushed for and got presidential pardons for FALN terrorists and for a fugitive thief, who was involved in that noble adventure to pull Elian Gonzales at gunpoint from a family member's arms to send him back to Cuba.

All I can say as I look at the incoming officers is "Please, God, watch over us and protect us".

Change That We Can Believe In

As our president-elect sets up his new cabinet, we see that the change really ends up being a Clinton Cabinet replay. As one pundit pointed out, it sort of reinforces the feeling that he really has no experience at what he is doing and is in over his head, so he falls back on others who do have the experience. In any case, some of the choices are rather troubling.

I hope this is a mistake quickly corrected, though I rather doubt that it will be. And one of his spokespersons a short time ago assured us that he would be ready to rule from day one. I am deeply sorry, but no one, NO ONE, rules in this country. People govern, they lead, but they do NOT rule. I personally see this as more than a "slip-of-the-tongue"; I see it as yet another piece of evidence that the Obama movement has every intention of trying to fundamentally change this country and its government, changing it away from the system that has brought us to the position as the best the world has ever seen