MSNBC's Matthews gives insight on the next step for President-elect Obama: transition. According to his sources, the new Obama administration will be formed using "three watchwords":
-- Bipartisan
-- Diversity. Matthews: "A truly diverse government is going to be formed."
-- Youth. Matthews: "No retreads -- they're not going to bring back people from old administrations."
Larrry said:The I TOLD YOU SO'S are sure starting early. That phrase is gonna be used so much in the next four years.
People who fell for his crap should be furious at being conned, Sandhusker. He hasn't even made it to inauguration day yet and I can think of a few people around here that should be ashamed to show up.Sandhusker said:How many of the liberal arguements for Obama are already toast? Let's make a list;
1) He supports gun rights
2) No lobbyists in his government
3) He supports the Constitution
3) He is going to change Washington
Texan said:People who fell for his crap should be furious at being conned, Sandhusker. He hasn't even made it to inauguration day yet and I can think of a few people around here that should be ashamed to show up.Sandhusker said:How many of the liberal arguements for Obama are already toast? Let's make a list;
1) He supports gun rights
2) No lobbyists in his government
3) He supports the Constitution
3) He is going to change Washington
Much has been made, and appropriately so, of Holder’s untoward performance in the final corrupt act of the Clinton administration: the pardons issued in the departing president’s final hours. Of these, most notorious is the case of Marc Rich, an unrepentant fugitive wanted on extensive fraud, racketeering, and trading-with-the-enemy charges — but granted a pardon nonetheless thanks to the intercession of his ex-wife, a generous donor to Clinton’s library and legal-defense fund.
Holder’s role was aptly described as “unconscionable” by a congressional committee. He steered Rich’s allies to retain the influential former White House counsel Jack Quinn (Holder later conceded he hoped Quinn would help him become attorney general in a Gore administration); he helped Quinn directly lobby Clinton, doing an end-run around the standard pardon process (including DOJ’s pardon attorney); and he kept the deliberations hidden from the district U.S. attorney and investigative agencies prosecuting Rich so they couldn’t learn about the pardon application and register their objections.
Texan said:Aren't 'little' things like competence and integrity in an Attorney General important to you libs?
Well, it's been three years, Oldtimer. So, what do you think?Texan said:Aren't 'little' things like competence and integrity in an Attorney General important to you libs?
Sandhusker said:How many of the liberal arguements for Obama are already toast? Let's make a list;
1) He supports gun rights
2) No lobbyists in his government
3) He supports the Constitution
3) He is going to change Washington