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From: Brumar893/9/2009 8:15:40 AM
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Home alone

President Obama has appointed only 70 of 1,200 appointees he will need to run his administration. It’s official: The lights are on and no one is home.

The empty suit has an empty administration to go with him.

Despite being given unprecedented access to the White House by a graceful President Bush for a smooth transition — despite the chest-thumping press releases about how great the vetting process was — Obama has, 7 weeks into the presidency, presented only 70 people for Senate approval, out of 1,200 appointments that need Senate confirmation.

At 10 a week, Obama will not finish the job until after the next Congress is elected and seated — sometime in May 2011.

Of those he has selected for Cabinet appointments, 2 failed to pay all their taxes and one may be under federal investigation.

In fact 7 of those 70 — 10% — have tax or legal troubles that in the past would have fouled them out of any consideration.

That’s some Super Duper Vetting by the self-congratulatory Team Obama.

“The gap leave(s) Timothy Geithner, the US Treasury Secretary, battling the worst economist crisis since the Great Depression with none of his 17 deputies even named. Each one has to be confirmed by the US Senate, a process that usually takes weeks.,” observed Toby Harnden of the London Independent newspaper.

Imagine. A newspaper paying attention to things like this while ours run stories on what Michelle is wearing or her portrait.

Change. Hope. No one’s home.
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