Obama promised he would change Washington.
I guess it's true that the more things change, the more they stay same.
Obama vowed to run an ethical White House.
Enter David Axelrod...
From Rick Moran, American Thinker:
David Axelrod, who is fond of calling the town hall protestors astroturf mobs, appears to have a few conflict of interests with the health care reform proposals being put forward by his boss, President Obama.
Axelrod headed up AKPD Message and Media - a firm that the Obama presidential campaign paid more than $340 million to place ads for the candidate. He resigned on December 31 to join the administration, and the firm is now run by his son.
The problem is, he is still owed money by the firm. And wouldn't you like to know where that money is coming from?
How about from a coalition of businesses calling themselves "Healthy Economy Now (HEN)" connected to the health care debate?
Moran cites an article by Timothy J. Burger, Bloomberg:
HEN’s other members, according to its Web site, are the AARP, the biggest advocacy organization for retirees; the Advanced Medical Technology Association; the Business Roundtable; Families USA; the Service Employees International Union, all based in Washington, and the American Medical Association based in Chicago. PhRMA represents 28 drugmakers, including New York-based Pfizer Inc. and London-based GlaxoSmithKline Plc.
That's an interesting group, isn't it?
From Politico:
Republicans are aggressively seeking to capitalize on the AKPD connection, and the House Republican Conference distributed a one-page talking points memo Tuesday asserting the White House-PhRMA deal raises “serious questions as to whether the drug lobby is helping to bankroll a multimillion dollar severance package for one of the President’s senior advisers.”
The memo points out that the drug industry will profit handsomely from the deal and asks whether Axelrod “recused himself from the PhRMA ‘deal,’ or will he work to defend an agreement with an industry that is directly funding his son’s work, and indirectly funding his own $2 million severance package?”
Republicans may be "aggressively seeking to capitalize on the AKPD connection" to score political points. I understand that.
But isn't it a legitimate issue?
What really bothers me is the hypocrisy of Obama and his buddies, the holier-than-thou crap.
The Culture of Corruption is thriving at the White House.
Hope. Change. BS.
2 comments:
Maybe the change is to show how REALLY corrupt an administration can possibly be. I mean Obama's shadow Czar Government is running circles around GW Bushes.
He makes Nixon look like a piker!
Obama's army of czars is amazing. He's skirting the Constitution.
And no complaints from the Leftists.
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