Back in October 2008, while still hot on the campaign trail, President Obama told voters in La Crosse, Wisconsin: “We need to end an era in Washington where accountability has been absent, oversight has been overlooked and your tax dollars have been turned over to wealthy CEOs and well-connected corporations. You need leadership that you can trust to work for you — not for the special interests who have had their thumb on the scale.”
Them there’s weasel words. To exactly which “era in Washington” was he referring? What with all the tax revenue suddenly flowing back into the IRS from his cabinet choices and now the additional burdens imposed by the pork-laden enervate…errrr…stimulus bill, it’s clear that things under the Obama administration are no different than during those of his predecessors.
This must be one of the advantages of an Ivy League education; I suspect it is again a matter of semantics, because apparently that accountability doesn’t apply to the monies donated to finance his campaign, either.
The city of Chicago still hasn’t been paid by the DNC for the November 4, 2008 election night victory celebration in its Grant Park. To the tune of $1.74 million.
Though much was made of it at the time, at least all the people who attempted to turn sow’s-ear-Sarah Palin into a Coach purse were paid for all that lipstick. Does the DNC think not paying the bills it incurred to celebrate the second coming of their pet prophet – in effect causing taxpayers to foot them – makes them somehow holier?
Like charity, accountability and trust best begin at home.
Thank you!