Why is it so hard for the Obama administration to find good, honest, decent Americans to work for it? It seems every day we are learning that this person that President wants for his cabinet or that person he wants to work in Treasury has had some problem with something.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t understand. Could Daniel Schorr, in his NPR\u2019s All Things Considered piece of March 4, \u201cVetting Process Out of Control,\u201d be right when he writes \u201cthat the issue should not be past mistakes, but transparency about them,\u201d when commenting on why it\u2019s OK that the Senate confirmed Timothy Geithner despite his tax indiscretions simply because he came clean about them? C\u2019mon, this can\u2019t be right. Simply telling someone you did something wrong doesn\u2019t absolve you from the misdeed. It just means you told someone about it.<\/p>\n
Then we learned that the man deemed fit to save the United States automobile industry is \u201can emerging figure,\u201d according to The New York Times, in the corruption investigation of the New York State pension program. And while Steven Rattner, President Obama\u2019s point man for the auto industry, has not been accused of any crime, according to the same article, he arranged to have his firm pay one of the indicted people being investigated a fee for getting business from the pension plan.<\/p>\n
It just doesn\u2019t add up to me. I am confused as to why the President and his advisors just can\u2019t seem to find people to work in Washington who don\u2019t have to come clean or, more pompously, \u201cbe transparent\u201d about past indiscretions. I don\u2019t agree with Mr. Schorr\u2019s comments that the vetting process is too difficult. I believe it is too lax. The bar for these people \u2013 our leaders \u2013 needs to be raised to new heights.<\/p>\n
One of the biggest complaints about the Bush administration was Vice President Cheney\u2019s past work at Halliburton and other links to government contractors. While I don\u2019t know all the facts, where there\u2019s smoke there\u2019s probably fire and frankly it seems that we all have been hurt by this relationship. If this type of situation was not acceptable then, it should not be acceptable now. President Obama has to say \u201cEnough is enough\u201d and bring in people that are beyond reproach, as he promised. Only then will he get the respect, admiration and the ability to look us in the eye and say that he\u2019s really brought \u201cChange\u201d to Washington.<\/p>\n
THINGS THAT DRIVE ME CRAZY!<\/p>\n
Right now nothing is bothering me, except that the Red Sox have gotten off to such a bad start. I expect things to turn around soon. If they don\u2019t rest, assured you will read about it in this blog.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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