Sebelius (D-KS), nominee to head HHS: Another Lobbyist to the Obama Administration

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 11th at 07:40 PM  | 

Update 3/31/09 by Jeff: Ho, hum, it appears Gov. Sebelius is yet another Obama nominee with a tax problem. Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius (Democrat), fresh off a losing battle against the GOP-led state legislature to solve the state budget crisis by incurring more debt while keeping expenditures exorbitant, has been selected by President Obama to head up the department of Health and Human Services. Given | Read More »

Report: Congress Getting a Late Start on Reading “Stimulus” Text Because Democratic Leaders Gave K Street the Only Copies

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  February 12th at 06:20 PM  | 

Note: Ron Robinson noted this in the diaries. Ah, change we can believe in: We’re receiving E-mails from Capitol Hill staffers expressing frustration that they can’t get a copy of the stimulus bill agreed to last night at a price of $789 billion. What’s more, staffers are complaining about who does have a copy: K Street lobbyists. E-mails one key Democratic staffer: “K Street has | Read More »

The Tale of the Administration That Apparently Thinks “Vetting” is What You Have Done to Dogs Every Six Months

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  February 2nd at 10:30 AM  | 

For all the stories that have come out in the last month about how President Obama has executed the smoothest administrative transition in memory, and how Obama has chosen to enforce the “strictest ethics rules ever applied” to the administration vetting and recruitment process, the facts sure do seem to point to an altogether different conclusion — especially in terms of cabinet nominees and senior | Read More »