Emanuel: White House not 'amateur hour'

Washington Times ^

[reagan_fanatic]

Where there’s smoke there’s fire, Emmanuel.

[spectre]

"Mr. Emanuel said winning passage of the $789 billion recovery spending bill — Congress is rushing to beat a weekend deadline for getting the bill to Mr. Obama — will overshadow the bumps."

The tragic New York plane crash is over shadowing Tu-Tu boy's bill he is trying to ram thru today.

He's likely dancing on his toes because the airways aren't filled with "stimulus" talk.

The decent thing to do is postpone the vote.

[AlphaOneAlpha]

I got a good chuckle re the reference to Amateur Hour. It's the exact phrase I used last weekend in referring to this administration.

I trust that the Republicans will take a sober observation of what's happened to two of them in the past few days in terms of their working with this collection of two-bit street hustling thugs. First, we have good ol’ Jugg suckered into a BS job and stripped of the census. And from what I read late yesterday, Menendez from the Dems announced that they have targeted Arlen (Judas)Spector’s Senate seat in the next election cycle, after good ol’Arlen sucked up to them and helped pass the stimulus package.

[BigLittle]

I agree, it's more like the Bong Show

[ClearCase_guy]

One of the quotes which (unfortunately) characterizes the Nixon administration is: "I am not a crook."

Now we have a quote which can characterize the Obama administration: "This is not amateur hour."

[Terabitten]

So lemme get this right.... Emmanuel’s, and by extension Obama’s, defense is now.. “AM NOT!!!!”

[mombonn]

To deny or defend such a statement makes it true for sure.

[dools007]

If the derissive claims of “amateur hour” at the WH have reached sufficient volume that Emanuel feels the need to deny them, then—I think—there is “amateur hour” at the WH.

The Marxist Onada’s first three or four weeks in office have been the most tumultuous I can remember. And I’m 65 years old.

Watching the media spin a 10 pt rise in the Dow as a “rebound” would be funny if it wasn’t so tragic. Watching the media spin the tax problems of so many of Onada’s appointment and appointment candidates as just “honest” mistakes would be ludicrous if it wasn’t so tragic. I mean, these are the best people The Messiah can find? Watching the media breathlessly report The Marxist Onada’s dialog overtures to Middle East terrorists would be laugable it wasn’t so tragic. I mean, what part of “we will convert, enslave and’or kill you” does he not understand?

[kellynla]

I guess Geithner saw the thread I posted Tuesday. LOL

“Geithner’s plan falls flat (Amateur Hour in D.C.)”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2182605/posts

[ElayneJ]

Why is Emanuel throwing the Clintons under the bus? Doesn’t he think obama needs Hillary and Bill? Or is he just a dufus? Very odd.

[Sig Sauer P220]

He’s right. Only professional thieves are allowed in the WH.

[paulycy]

[bray]

Obozo is amateur hour.

Pray for America, Our Troops and obama’s Guidance

[SERKIT]

You gotta hand it to comrade Barry. He is following the script nearly to a "T". This is not the Porkulus Bill, it should be heralded as "The Marxism Conversion Act of 2009", with its 'stealth-health' provision.

Washington DC shall henceforth be renamed Obamastan (pronounced oh-bah-mah-stahn), and the country shall be known as the United Socialist States of North Amerika.

It isn't amateur hour at the White House, it is more like Animal Farm.

[Just mythoughts]

Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said it is not "amateur hour" and that the Obama administration is still doing better than President Clinton was at this point.

That is correct Rahm, it is Friday the 13th....

[jersey117]

Something still smells funny and I think it’s ole Crusty.

I'm with you. Wonder how long before Hillary bows out to make him look really bad. Zero took some of her Secretary of State responsibilities and doled them out to "special envoys".

[truthandlife]

All Obama and the leftist care about is shoving this spending package down the American people’s throats and they know they are on their way to turning this nation to socialism.

We need to do whatever we can to make sure this bill is not voted on today.

[A Strict Constructionist]

I think we should take up a collection to send “dead fish” a bleeding horse head for his bead. That should clarify our feelings about him.

[Steven Tyler]

If you need to reassure everyone “it’s not amateur hour”
IT IS AMATEUR HOUR

[Nachum]

Too good not to be added. LOL

The List

First president not to attend The Inaugural Medal of Honor Ball
Many exectutive orders the first week in office. Including
* -allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States.
* - Scrapping the Mexico City Policy that protected taxpayers from involvement in overseas abortions for eight years. Obama will send hundreds of millions of dollars to groups that aggressively promote abortions on a worldwide scale.
Obama issued Executive Order "Use of Project Labor Agreements for Federal Construction Projects", revoking Bush Executive Orders 13202 and 13208. The new order encourages federal executives to require government contractors and subcontractors to use union-organized labor.
Obama issues Executive Order "Amendments to Executive Order 13199 Establishment of the President's Advisory Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.". Neighborhood partnerships" have equal footing with faith-based ones. The local Planned Parenthood or ACORN center will be treated like a house of God, in the eyes of the federal government.
First official phone call to Abbas
Insults China
First interview, with foreign news outlet- for Muslims
Talks about his muslim family
Picks fight with Limbaugh
Won't take question from press
Allows to FDA approve first human embryonic stem cell safety trial (3 days after Pres. Bush left)
Excludes any compromise with GOP on Stimulus bill Massive pork in stimulus bill
5% of stimulus bill to actually go to infrastructure
Offers to negotiate directly with Iran
Puts 5 millionairs on his cabinet
Makes a tax cheat the Sec. of the Treasury
Bombs Pakistan
Argues with the Pope on abortion
Signed the SCHIP bill, that gives health care to illegals
Won't allow a video of his retaking of the oath of office
Ordered the closure of Gitmo
Halts all pending Bush regulations

Second week:
Appoints extremist Samantha Powers to head foreign policy team
Secret nuke talks with Iran/Syria
Appoints tax cheat for commerce secretary
Illegal alien aunt, granted a "stay" of deportation Daschle the tax cheat/lobbiest proposed as secretary for health care
Nancy Killefer for candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for federal government fails to pay household help taxes ...withdrawn
Obama brings the U.S. Census Bureau under White House jurisdiction under protest from Republican lawmakers
12 lobbyists (or more) appointed to high gov't positions within the first 14 days of his administration (up to 17 by another source)
Administration demands defense cuts of 10% during wartime
Obama envoy George Mitchell tells Palistinians " they believe can extract from Israel concessions reaching "much further" than during talks held under the previous administration
The European Union warns the US yesterday against plunging the world into depression by adopting Obama's “Buy American” policy, intensifying fears of a trade war Obama immediately backs down from policy
After stating her priority would be "mum-in-chief", Michelle Obama goes on listening tour and then makes political speeches with her husband not yet one month in office...
George Mitchell resigns from a Saudi Lobbying firm, two weeks into his appointment as "Special Middle East Envoy"
Obama administration says it will cancel 77 drilling leases near Utah parks
Ogden, President Obama's pick for deputy attorney general, used to represent Playboy
Steven Chu, Obama's secretary of energy (not a climatologist) states: California's farms and vineyards could vanish by the end of the century, and its major cities could be in jeopardy, if Americans do not act to slow the advance of global warming
Obama names “most fined” Washington State bureaucrat Ron Simms to the #2 position in HUD
Hilda Solis, Obama's pick for labor secretary's husband is found to be a tax cheat just before the confirmation vote
Directed military prosecutors to revoked charges pending against mastermind of USS Cole bombing: Al Nashiri
Adding insult to injury: speaks to families of USS Cole dead, after decision to free Al Nashiri- not before

Third week in office

Obama changes the setup of the National Security Councel by executive order
Shauna Daly, professional “dirt digger” hired as “White House councel research director”
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel got free housing from House rep (D) Rosa DeLauro for 5 years . DeLauro is married to Stan Greenberg; a pollster (Quinlin Rosner Research) with lucrative contracts from both that representatives.
A Syrian paper reported that the Obama U.S. Dept. of Commerce agreed to sell plane parts to Syria
A lawyer for the Obama administration surprised a panel of federal appeals judges by making an argument to preserve state secrets in a trial regarding terrorism subjects. This argument was made, after repeatedly attacking the Bush administration for doing the same thing.
President Obama said Monday that "only government" can shake the country out of recession, as he tried to settle doubts about his administration's costly economic recovery package during a prime-time press conference.
Obama reverses Bush policy on 'warming' Federal agencies settle long-standing case in favor of environmentalists. The U.S. will now refuse to help finance development overseas if the environmental establishment claims that it would contribute to 'global warming
Deborah Burlingame, a 9/11 family member who lost her brother Chip during the 9/11 attacks, spoke to media at the National Press Club about her meeting with President Obama.
He said he was not at all worried about the security of the American people in bringing the detainees here. Not in the least worried about that. His reasoning was this: ‘ Al Qaeda doesn’t have conscience they’re not interested in going back and springing these guys. They’re forgotten once they are put away in our federal facilities. He said, furthermore there are so many soft targets in the United States, like a shopping mall, why would Al Qaeda go after a hard target like a federal lock up or military prison, when they could choose a soft target.’
Burlingame later added that Obama was “non-committal” about visiting Guantanamo Bay when she asked him
Interior Secretary Salazar Kills Bush Offshore drilling plan Saying “we need bring sanity back into our energy policy….
Obama gave two high level positions to former Citibank executives (Jacob J. Lew, and Michael Froman) who helped run Citibank into the ground and raises questions of conflict of interest .
Republicans are shut out of the Stimulus conference negotiations.
Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence (R-Ind):“(the stimulus package…)is being crafted without a single House Republican in the room.”
Obama in 2007:End the Practice of Writing Legislation Behind Closed Doors: (from Obama’s website: http://change.gov/agenda/ethics_agenda/)
Defense lobbyist William Lynn approved as deputy defense secretary. Obama waives ethics regulations by putting the ex-defense lobbyist in charge of day-to-day operations at the Pentagon. Obama violates promise to keep lobbyists out of the federal government. On his first day in office, Obama issued an executive order forcing individuals to wait two years before they could be hired for the agencies they had lobbied, violating his own executive order less than three weeks in office.
Obama appoints Gil Kerlikowske to be the nation’s new drug czar. Kerlikowske has established himself as a devoted lobbyist for every restrictive gun law proposal.
Obama controls the press core at the White House: Chicago Sun Times Writer Carol Marin writes: “The press corps, most of us, don't even bother raising our hands any more to ask questions because Obama always has before him a list of correspondents who've been advised they will be called upon that day.”
Obama demonstrates dangerous ignorance of the Classified Information Procedures Act or CIPA by the president. This was witnessed by Debra Burlingame, sister sister of Charles Burlingame III, the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77 that was flown into the Pentagon on 9/11, at White House meeting of families of terrorism victims
President Obama today repeated the claim that Jim Owens, the CEO of Caterpillar, Inc., "said that if Congress passes our plan, this company will be able to rehire some of the folks who were just laid off." But after the president left the event, Owens said the exact opposite.
Defending the White House in the wake of Sen. Judd Gregg's withdrawal as Commerce Secretary, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said it is not "amateur hour"