Changing Change Changes
I congratulation President Obama on his dedication to the implementation of “change”.
In just a few short weeks the Obama administration has indeed begun fulfilling one of its dominant campaign promises and brought about some fairly significant “change”.
As a fiscal conservative I salute the president’s efforts to personally reduce the national deficit by enhancing the coffers of the IRS with some serious “change” through his cabinet nomination process.
Thanks to the presidents thoughtful and in depth cabinet post decisions, hundreds of thousands of dollars have “changed” from the personal bank accounts of Timothy Geithner, Tom Daschle and Nancy Killefer to the national bank account. The entire cabinet nomination process has “changed” this historic administration’s slogan from “Yes We Can’ to “Oops My Bad”.
The extended media coverage and political debate over the tax delinquencies of the now confirmed Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has brought about a “change” of heart from Tom Daschle and Nancy Killefer who both suffer from similar nonpayment of taxes issues. This will allow the president to “change” his picks for Secretary of Health and Human Services and the newly created post of Chief Performance Officer. I can only assume that the Obama administration cabinet vetting process will “change” to a more in-depth review of a potential nominee’s background beyond checking for unpaid parking tickets prior to announcing their names to the press.
This repetition of tax delinquent nominees has allowed Democrats in the House and Senate to “change” their opinion as to what is acceptable behavior for our country’s top officials. They have “changed” from a group that was outraged at a vice president who received legally owed deferred compensation from a previous employer to a party of “changing” stories and justifications regarding illegally omitted compensation owed to the government.
As one of his first acts, the new president signed an executive order on ethics that “changed” the rules as to how lobbyists could function within his administration. He stated that this order “represents a clean break from business as usual. As of today lobbyists will be subject to stricter limits than under any other administration in history. If you are a lobbyist entering my administration you will not be able to work on matters you lobbied on, or in the agencies you lobbied during that past two years.” Less than 48 hours later the president “changed” that executive order regarding a former Raytheon lobbyist and his pick for Deputy Defense Minister, William Lynn.
But the “change” doesn’t stop there. In his latest series of executive order signings, the president has “changed” the concept of the American middle class from the 91% of non-union private sector employees to the 9% of union member employees. He has also effectively “changed” the way we will deal with our global trading partners by instituting protectionism back into American trade policy. This will undoubtedly “change” the way these trading partners deal with American business and allow for significant “change” in our ability to do business with them.
President Obama has signed an order to “change” Guantanamo Bay from a safe and effective place to detain some of the world’s most dangerous men to prime piece of vacant Cuban property. He did so without having a firm plan as to how to “change” the detainee’s geographic location, but unless things “change” he said he should have another executive order forthcoming regarding that “change”. He “changed” the rules of interrogation and keeping detainees in secret locations but when it came to the policy of covert abductions known as rendition, the president “changed” his mind and will allow that practice to continue. This brought about the unexpected “change” of diminished support from the far left faction of the Democrat party so the Obama administration will undoubtedly “change” the way it describes the practice or the name used to describe it.
But even with all this “change” the greatest “change” had to come from the new Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, when she thanked her husband Bill at her swearing in ceremony and expressed her gratitude by saying “”I am so grateful to him for a lifetime of……………. all kinds of experiences.”
Grateful? Now that’s “change”!
