http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/cabinet/ en-us Fri, 1 Jan 2010 13:44:24 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418913/posts from the National Center for Transgender Equality Amanda Simpson, who has served on NCTE’s Board of Directors for the past 3 years, has been appointed by the Obama Administration as a Senior Technical Advisor to the Department of Commerce. She’ll be working in the Bureau of Industry and Security. “I’m truly honored to have received this appointment and am eager and excited about this opportunity that is before me. And at the same time, as one of the first transgender presidential appointees to the federal government, I hope that I will soon be one of hundreds, and that this appointment... intraa.org via DU. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418913/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 13:44:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2403363/posts In recalling President Obama's cabinet appointments, you'll notice that very few have had any private sector or business experience. To find out if this was a "change" from prior administrations, Michael Cembalest, Chief Investment Officer of JP Morgan Private Bank, did a study that examined the private sector experience of prior cabinet officials since 1900. THE FREEDOM POST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2403363/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 01:48:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398859/posts BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Lebanon's new government Wednesday endorsed Hezbollah's right to keep its weapons, the latest sign that the group has no intention of meeting a U.N. resolution calling for it to disarm. Lebanon's government is a shaky coalition of Western-backed factions and the militant group Hezbollah, which has virtual veto power over the government. The group is believed to have thousands of rockets and missiles hidden in basements and bunkers throughout Shiite Muslim areas of the tiny country. seatlle.pi http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398859/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 00:39:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395542/posts A friend sends along the following chart from a J.P. Morgan research report. It examines the prior private sector experience of the cabinet officials since 1900 that one might expect a president to turn to in seeking advice about helping the economy. It includes secretaries of State, Commerce, Treasury, Agriculture, Interior, Labor, Transportation, Energy, and Housing & Urban Development, and excludes Postmaster General, Navy, War, Health, Education & Welfare, Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security—432 cabinet members in all. When one considers that public sector employment has ranged since the 1950s at between 15 percent and 19 percent of the population,... The Enterprise Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395542/posts#comment Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:26:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2395250/posts Help Wanted, No Private Sector Experience RequiredBy Nick Schulz November 25, 2009, 8:19 am A friend sends along the following chart from a J.P. Morgan research report. It examines the prior private sector experience of the cabinet officials since 1900 that one might expect a president to turn to in seeking advice about helping the economy. It includes secretaries of State, Commerce, Treasury, Agriculture, Interior, Labor, Transportation, Energy, and Housing & Urban Development, and excludes Postmaster General, Navy, War, Health, Education & Welfare, Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security—432 cabinet members in all. Rest of Article Here The Enterprise Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2395250/posts#comment Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:29:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367030/posts Ibrahim Didi, right, the minister of fisheries and agriculture in the Maldives, signs a document calling on all countries to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions ahead of a major climate change conference in December. (Mohammed Seeneen/Associated Press) Cabinet ministers in the Maldives held an underwater meeting Saturday to draw attention to the threat global warming poses to the lowest-lying nation on earth. President Mohammed Nasheed and members of his cabinet wore scuba gear as they arrived for the meeting in a lagoon off the island of Girifushi. They sat at a table anchored to the sand on the floor of... CBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367030/posts#comment Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:56:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2336126/posts The Van Jones story isn't about another radical federal employee or even about President Obama's addiction to executive authority (he has appointed over 30 czars with whom he meets regularly, but he has held just one cabinet meeting since his inauguration). The Van Jones story is about our president: a man who fills the void in his emotional past with "authentic" black men who have no interior struggle for definition. President Obama has incessantly injected himself into racial matters that require no clarification (see Henry Louis Gates Jr.); he has turned every debate into a racial debate (see his 2008... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2336126/posts#comment Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:29:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265384/posts Since Congress passed President Barack Obama’s $787 billion economic stimulus bill in February, administration officials have traveled to at least 66 events across the country to tout the massive spending program or hand out stimulus cash to grateful local officials. But a POLITICO examination of the travel reveals a distinctly political trend line: Top officials have hosted events predominantly in states that Obama won in 2008. What’s more, the examination revealed that Obama officials all but avoided Southern states that Obama lost. It is not unusual for a presidential administration to find ways to reward its supporters through federal largesse,... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265384/posts#comment Fri, 5 Jun 2009 12:23:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2238232/posts Who would have thought that after almost a hundred days, it would be Hillary Clinton that would be one of Obama's least controversial advisors? Of course, a cabinet, once referred to by the mainstream as a supreme collection of professionals, has turned into nothing short of a motley crue of misfits, criminals, and incompetents. In fact, the last of problematic cabinet choices is so large that I know that I will forget many important missteps in Obama's cabinet. The Provocateur http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2238232/posts#comment Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:12:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2210104/posts And it’s not a twister, Auntie Em. Kathleen Sebelius left her job as governor of Kansas to take a Cabinet position as Secretary of Health and Human Services in Barack Obama’s administration, but she left unfinished business behind. The Kansas City Star reports that legislators want to know how a Sebelius-tied charity wound up with an increase in government funding — while they spent $400,000 building a horse ranch: Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2210104/posts#comment Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:27:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2207106/posts March 15) - Another conspiracy theory surrounding President Barack Obama is making the rounds, according to Politico.com The latest one contends that many top officials in Obama's administration are involved in a clandestine global cabal bent on creating a one-world government that supersedes the United States. For decades, conspiracy theorists have viewed the Bilderberg group, an international organization made up of political, financial, academic and military heavyweights that comes together annually to discuss world affairs, as similar to the Trilateral Commission or the Council on Foreign Relations -- two groups comprised of influential movers and shakers who, some say, control... AOL http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2207106/posts#comment Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:17:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2201812/posts The best way judge a person is by the company he keeps. But President Obama is having trouble keeping any company at all. Recently his Cabinet nominees have been dropping like flies - Sanjay Gupta's withdrawal from the surgeon general slot on Thursday brought the number of botched high-level candidates to seven. "He's having a lot of trouble getting nominations pushed through," says Paul Light, professor of Public Service at NYU's Wagner School. "He's falling behind Bush and Clinton in his number of confirmed candidates in the first 100 days. He can't afford another one." Here, a rogue's gallery at... The New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2201812/posts#comment Sun, 8 Mar 2009 10:10:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2200982/posts What is with all of these people "withdrawing" from Obama's cabinet positions? Well, three possibilities. First, they know this is a sinking ship on the way to the murky depths of socialism. Second, they are crooked, and scared to be exposed in the vetting process. And third, both the first and second reason. Geithner's choice for deputy withdraws from consideration... Gupta withdraws from consideration for surgeon general... President faces tough question over Cabinet picks... Third Obama cabinet nominee withdraws name Reuters Republican Gregg withdraws from commerce post consideration - CNN.com Gupta Withdraws Name for Surgeon General More tax problems for... notoriouslyconservative.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2200982/posts#comment Fri, 6 Mar 2009 22:00:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2197795/posts With all his problems hanging onto cabinet appointments, and maintaining a consistent message from day to day, let alone with his actions, it's no wonder that only a month in the Democrats are "Hot N Cold". This production was prepared for the 2009 Buchanan County (MO) Lincoln Day Dinner held on Feb. 28, 2009. YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2197795/posts#comment Tue, 3 Mar 2009 02:32:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2197585/posts Add former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk to the list of Obama Cabinet picks with tax problems. The Senate Finance Committee says he underpaid by $9,975 in the last three years. Senate aides uncovered the shortfall during weeks of vetting, and Kirk – the administration’s designated point person on trade -- has promised to pay the Internal Revenue Service in full. The problems: Kirk deducted too much for season tickets to the Dallas Mavericks and too much for tax preparation fees, and failed to report as income speaking fees that he donated to his alma mater, Austin College. The full political... The Dallas Morning News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2197585/posts#comment Mon, 2 Mar 2009 22:29:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2194443/posts On Wednesday, Vice President Joe Biden met with members of President Barack Obama’s Cabinet to discuss the first steps necessary in getting money from the stimulus package to the aid of the American people. In President Obama’s speech on Tuesday evening, he addressed the arduous task facing the recovery team, but said that “nobody messes with Joe,” speaking of Vice President Biden, as a reason he had put Biden in charge of the recovery plan. Wednesday, Biden said that the stimulus package is meant to “drop-kick" the economy out of recession, and addressed the need for getting money distributed quickly.... FOXBusinessShareThis http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2194443/posts#comment Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:19:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2193961/posts Two of President Obama's Cabinet members authored a variety of earmarks in the $410 billion omnibus spending bill the House is poised to pass Wednesday to keep the government running through Oct. 1. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis were both House members when appropriators began to forge this legislation last year. However, a stalemate between President Bush and congressional Democrats forced the sides to punt the rest of the spending provisions until now. New transparency rules ordered up by Democrats two years ago require lawmakers requesting earmarks to write a letter expressly asking Congress to dedicate... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2193961/posts#comment Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:06:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2184701/posts This was expected, but at the end of business earlier this evening, the Senate announced that Leon Panetta, an all-around respected official who has been in and out of government, was confirmed to become the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The nod of approval was granted by a voice vote at the end of a long day. But Mr. Panetta pretty much sailed through his hearings with the Senate Intelligence Committee earlier. Earlier in the nomination process, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, had seemed miffed that she wasn’t informed beforehand that Mr. Panetta, a longtime friend and... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2184701/posts#comment Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:26:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2183805/posts Unable to post text from a Gannett newspaper. To summarize, Moveon.org is trying to derail Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen's consideration for Health and Human Services Secretary. They claim Bredesen gutted TennCare, the state insurance program for the uninsured. Bredesen did cut services in TennCare to keep it solvent. He's a democrat who leans more towards fiscal conservatism than your typical beltway Dem. He has repeatedly refused to get on the "we need an income tax" bandwagon and simply said we need to live within our means. Link to Story Tennessean.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2183805/posts#comment Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:24:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2180842/posts WASHINGTON (AP) - Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius was near the top of President Barack Obama's list of candidates to head the Health and Human Services Department, a senior administration official said Saturday. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2180842/posts#comment Sun, 8 Feb 2009 06:34:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2180659/posts Today it has been announced that Nancy Killefer, President Obama’s nominee for the first ever “Government Performance Czar”, has been withdrawn by the candidate because of tax and household employee difficulties and that Tom Daschle, nominee for the Health and Human Services has also withdrawn. Mr. Obama throughout his campaign was demanding that wealthier Americans should pay higher taxes and that more government accountability and transparency of elected officials would proceed with his election. His running mate, Joe Biden, famously proclaimed that it would be patriotic to pay taxes. Now three major nominees for the Cabinet have been exposed as... American Daily Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2180659/posts#comment Sat, 7 Feb 2009 23:27:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2179764/posts President Obama continues to nominate persons of ill-repute to his Cabinet and Sub-Cabinet, including a pornography defender and a woman who covered up for her tax cheat husband by lying about the financial obligations to Congress. The lack of ethics of this budding administration is astounding — kind of like a 21st Century version of Roman Emperor Caligula. An orgy of spending, lying, strange sex. David Ogden is nominated to be the second person in command in the U.S. office of the Attorney General. According to a number of reports, as an attorney in private practice, Ogden filed court briefs:... The Republican Liberty Caucus http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2179764/posts#comment Fri, 6 Feb 2009 17:07:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2179348/posts Remember that 9 page information sheet all the Obama nominees had to fill out before they would be considered for a job? The press made a huge deal about the new, ethical tone Obama was bringing to Washington. The One was not going to be blindsided like Clinton with a Zoe Baird problem. And it specifically asked about tax problems. This is turning into a farce. First we had Geithner, then Daschle, then Nancy Killefer, and now Labor Secretary nominee Hilda Solis also has a tax problem. More . . . The Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2179348/posts#comment Fri, 6 Feb 2009 00:57:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2178397/posts Using Joe Biden's definition of patriotism, Barack Obama's appointees have to be considered the most unpatriotic group ever appointed: Of course, Obama would probably say that he's trying to make America more patriotic by appointing people to his cabinet who cheat on their taxes. You see, he knew that they would have to pay their back taxes before they would be approved, if they were even approved at all. It's all part of his master plan to rehabilitate tax cheats, one cabinet appointee at a time. The Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2178397/posts#comment Wed, 4 Feb 2009 20:30:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2176210/posts Back in 1986, when Tom Daschle was a member of the House, President Reagan nominated a man named Richard Lyng to be Agriculture Secretary. Daschle didn't like the nomination. Why? Lyng, Daschle said, was "a limousine-lounging corporate executive" who didn't know anything about agriculture. (Lyng, who had bipartisan support, actually knew quite a bit about agriculture and was confirmed.) I found Daschle's quote in a Nexis search and haven't seen it anywhere else on the Web, so here in an excerpt from an AP story on January 30, 1986: "He is bringing with him a solid agriculture background and years... The Corner @ National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2176210/posts#comment Sun, 1 Feb 2009 16:16:52 GMT