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SEIU! SEIU! SEIU!: Obama Pledges to “Paint the Nation Purple”
Oct 12th
SEIU Local 880, based in Chicago, is one of the largest SEIU union locals. It was founded and has been long controlled by ACORN and Wade Rathke. This recently uncovered video shows presidential candidate Barack Obama discussing his long and close ties to SEIU. This is not your typical political pandering. This is someone who feels at home, talking to close friends and family.
Congressman wants all ‘czars’ to testify
Sep 10th
By Jordan Fabian – 09/09/09 10:11 AM ET
Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) on Wednesday called for President Obama’s “czars,” or appointed high-level advisers, to testify before Congress about their “authority and responsibilities” in the executive branch.
The president’s “czars” have become a point of controversy among his opponents because they do not have to be confirmed by the Senate as cabinet-level officials do.
McHenry wrote to committee chairman Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) and ranking member Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) asking the appointed officials to testify.
“If the czars have high-level, decision-making authority as their titles would indicate, then it is my concern that their appointment without Senate approval represents a circumvention of our Constitutionally-mandated confirmation process,” McHenry, who is a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said in his letter.
Czars were in the spotlight again after “green jobs” czar Van Jones’ resigned this weekend. It was revealed that Jones made harsh comments about Republicans and signed a “truther” petition alleging that the government played a role in the 9/11 attacks.
“His ability to slip into a position of power without due Congressional diligence only further underscores the necessity for a confirmation process,” the third-term Republican said of Jones.
However, the actual number of czars in the administration is a disputed matter. McHenry requests that all of President Obama’s 44 czars testify before Congress. But other reports put the number at around 30.
The North Carolina Republican did not provide a list of the 44 czars he wants to testify.
SOURCE: THE HILL.COM
More czars on conservative hit list
Sep 6th
With the resignation of green jobs adviser Van Jones, the conservative firing squad is setting its sights on other White House czars.
The resignation of Jones — who stepped down from his post as the White House green jobs adviser early Sunday morning, citing a “vicious smear campaign” waged against him by “opponents of reform” — was a win for conservative politicians and pundits who waged a months-long campaign hammering him for comments he made in his previous post as an environmental activist for poor and minority communities.
Jones’ admission that he signed a petition implying a government role in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks — a document circulated by right-wing bloggers — was the final, inflammatory straw for the White House.
Now, right-wing politicians and pundits are looking for other White House czars with controversial pasts. “Van Jones is the tip of the Iceburg. As VJ has said: “personnel is policy”" conservative pundit Glenn Beck twittered on Friday. Attacking Obama’s advisers, conservatives believe, will raise questions about the judgment of their popular boss.
Here’s some of other the czars on the conservative hit list:
John Holdren, science czar
Conservatives took shots at Holdren, formerly a professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, earlier this year for a 1977 environmental science textbook he co-authored that surveyed policy options to curb overpopulation.
In a chapter on “population policies,” the authors mentioned involuntary fertility control methods like mandatory abortions, mandating family size and adding sterilants to drinking water or staple foods.
Read more at: politico.com