Obama Closing Door For Lobyists, Freezing Pay of Staff

DriftingByTheStorm

I hate to say this,
but this guy is starting to sound pretty smart.
Freezing the pay of white house employees who make $100K or more,
dissallowing lobbyists in his adminsitration to work on those issues which they previously lobbied,
and forcing them to sign papers that they won't go BACK to lobbying after they are done, for two years.

Something like that.

See,
if man does what he says,
maybe i won't be such a debbie downer on him.

I'm still skeptical,
but let us see what continues from here.

For today,
THREE CHEERS FOR OBAMA.

Hip hip hip.

VINNY GOOMBA

So far, so good. He's already working to shut down Guantanamo, also.

Commy

actually carrying out a campaign promise, I didn't think politicians did that anymore.

nice.

norm

DriftingByTheStorm wrote:

I'm still skeptical,
but let us see what continues from here.

i'm with ya on that

mickeyrat

Not a bad first part of the day if you ask me. This after being up way to late attnding the inaugaral balls.

mickeyrat

norm wrote:

DriftingByTheStorm wrote:

I'm still skeptical,
but let us see what continues from here.

i'm with ya on that

Thats a good thing. Wait , watch and call out when it doesn't pass the smell test.

CJMST3K

mickeyrat wrote:

up way to late attnding the inaugaral balls.

(insert joke here)

mickeyrat

CJMST3K wrote:

mickeyrat wrote:

up way to late attnding the inaugaral balls.

(insert joke here)

One never knows! Ok maybe secret service does but they are not in the habit of commenting publically.

soulsinging

Man, the folks who were all set to crucify him for being Bush II are going to be so disappointed :(

catefrances

VINNY GOOMBA wrote:

So far, so good. He's already working to shut down Guantanamo, also.

GREAT!! is he gonna hand the land back to cuba? or is it just gonna sit there idle?

mickeyrat

catefrances wrote:

VINNY GOOMBA wrote:

So far, so good. He's already working to shut down Guantanamo, also.

GREAT!! is he gonna hand the land back to cuba? or is it just gonna sit there idle?

No I doubt that will happen , It's a perpetual lease I believe. We will always have a military base there.

catefrances

mickeyrat wrote:

catefrances wrote:

VINNY GOOMBA wrote:

So far, so good. He's already working to shut down Guantanamo, also.

GREAT!! is he gonna hand the land back to cuba? or is it just gonna sit there idle?

No I doubt that will happen , It's a perpetual lease I believe. We will always have a military base there.

well that just plain sux. it was not a lease with the current government. as a mark of goodwill the US government should hand back the land. it doesnt belong to them. they have no need to remain in cuba.

Lizard

Why do you "hate" to say it???

decides2dream

DriftingByTheStorm wrote:

I hate to say this,
but this guy is starting to sound pretty smart.
Freezing the pay of white house employees who make $100K or more,
dissallowing lobbyists in his adminsitration to work on those issues which they previously lobbied,
and forcing them to sign papers that they won't go BACK to lobbying after they are done, for two years.

Something like that.

See,
if man does what he says,
maybe i won't be such a debbie downer on him.

I'm still skeptical,
but let us see what continues from here.

For today,
THREE CHEERS FOR OBAMA.

Hip hip hip.

what else is there to say? well done.
skepticism is always wise and prudent, dismissial without opportunity to prove one's self is not. (not saying you personally do that.....just sayin')

mickeyrat

catefrances wrote:

well that just plain sux. it was not a lease with the current government. as a mark of goodwill the US government should hand back the land. it doesnt belong to them. they have no need to remain in cuba.

Territory captured/taken over In the Spanish/American War. I believe They spent the time til Castro as an american protectorate. Kind of the same as Philipines. Both had choice in form of government.And when Castro came along with the cold war in full force , sealed the deal as far as US presense on Cuba.

Commy

Obama just shut down all trials at gitmo for 120 days to review every single case there. gotta give him props, he's actually doing what he said he'd do.

VINNY GOOMBA

soulsinging wrote:

Man, the folks who were all set to crucify him for being Bush II are going to be so disappointed :(

I HOPE you're right! None of us have anything to gain, and quite a bit to lose if it turns out to be true that he is a Bush II.

What politicians say in their campaigns, and actually do when they're in office can be night and day. If W. had maintained the policies he spoke about on the campaign trail in 2000, he actually may have been a good president. The policies he talked about while campaigning in 04 were more typical of his whole presidency, sadly for us.

Basically, we need to watch what every politician does REGARDLESS. This is how it was intended to be. We have ourselves to blame when they fuckin shit up for us.

Cosmo

DriftingByTheStorm wrote:

I hate to say this,
but this guy is starting to sound pretty smart.
Freezing the pay of white house employees who make $100K or more,
dissallowing lobbyists in his adminsitration to work on those issues which they previously lobbied,
and forcing them to sign papers that they won't go BACK to lobbying after they are done, for two years.

Something like that.

See,
if man does what he says,
maybe i won't be such a debbie downer on him.

I'm still skeptical,
but let us see what continues from here.

For today,
THREE CHEERS FOR OBAMA.

Hip hip hip.

...
Gee... thanx Obama.
Now, I guess we can expect the Lobbyist Industry to ask for a government Bail-out. See... Hannity and Rush were right about Obama going after the working man.

mca47

So far he's done more in one day than Bush did in the last year.

inmytree

mca47 wrote:

So far he's done more in one day than Bush did in the last year.

this was my first thought, too...

Heineken Helen

catefrances wrote:

well that just plain sux. it was not a lease with the current government. as a mark of goodwill the US government should hand back the land. it doesnt belong to them. they have no need to remain in cuba.

while I agree... I don't think it should be the most important thing on the agenda. There is plenty of cleaning up to be done by America worldwide and, while I'd love to see it all done now, I'm content to just sit back and take it one day at a time and see where it goes. It's impossible for Obama to right all the wrongs in one day, never mind four years but I'll be happy if he makes a good go at it.