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March 11, 2009
There is Nobody There
http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/2009/03/11/thereisnobodythere/
"Barack Obama is too busy posing for magazine covers to actually do the job to which he was elected.
There is a price to be paid when a president throws a party every other night, weekends in Chicago or Camp David and poses for magazine cover after magazine cover.
After 51 days in office, Barack Obama has appointed only 73 people to 1,200 jobs that require Senate confirmation.
If they require Senate approval, they are important jobs.
But Obama is too busy to properly vet the people and appoint them to fill the jobs to get the work done.
That is his job.
And he shirks it.
And now we pay the price.
The London Independent reported: "Last week, it was all smiles and handshakes as Gordon Brown and President Barack Obama put on a show of unity in Washington.
"But yesterday, Sir Gus O'Donnell, Britain's most senior civil servant, exposed transatlantic tension when he protested that Downing Street was finding it 'unbelievably difficult' to plan for next month's G20 summit in London because of problems tracking down senior figures in the US administration. 'There is nobody there. ...'"
Posted by Rob Kiser on March 11, 2009 at 9:08 PM
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