Posted by
GunnyG© on Tuesday, August 25, 2009 8:12:23 AM
or in other words, the Obama Administration.
Every see someone posted to a position of authority, who was clearly in over their heads, and you knew, you just KNEW that the results of this social experiment were gonna suck. And they usually do.
The liberals elected a guy with ZERO executive level experience, ZERO leadership skills, and ZERO foreign policy skills. With predictable results. Would you hire the wife of an electrician to rewire your house? Not unless SHE was a trained and certified electrician. Would you hire the wife of a plumber to fix your sink? Again, not unless SHE was a trained and certified plumber. So WHY would people vote for a guy whose expereince is all classroom based? A supposed Constitutional scholar who has violated the Constitution without a shred of shame. The Gunny surmises that the Lapdog Media fell in love with Barry and his cutesy little family, now complete with doggy, and wanted to be the first to "scoop" the first black president.
EXCERPT (WSJ): "The Federal Reserve chose a labor leader to succeed a former Goldman Sachs executive as the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of New York's private-sector board of directors. Denis Hughes, president of the New York state branch of the AFL-CIO, had been serving as acting chairman of the New York Fed board since May, when Stephen Friedman stepped down from the position."
Nice huh? The Federal Reserve Board of Governors put a union clown in charge of finances. That's like electing a community organizer to the White House. Oh wait, libs already DID that. So WHAT are we NOT hearing? Let the Gunny clue you in.
First of all, the Fed Reserve Board of Governors includes:
1. Ben S. Bernanke (Chairman) Donated to Obama's campaign.
2. Donald L. Kohn, (Vice Chairman) Donated to Obama's campaign.
3. Kevin M. Warsh (Unknown if he donated to Obama's campaign.)
4. Elizabeth A. Duke (Served as a member of the Fannie Mae National Advisory Council.)
5. Daniel K. Tarullo (95-98, he served as Clinton's personal representative to the G7/G8 group of industrialized nations. Served as Chief Counsel for Employment Policy on the staff of Senator Edward M. Kennedy. From 1981 to 1987, Mr. Tarullo taught at Harvard Law School.)
There you have it folks, Obama hacks running the Fed. Barry snaps his fingers and says pay back my union buddies and it's done. It should be noted that the Federal Reserve Act (section 4, paragraph 20 ) REQUIRES that chairmen of boards overseeing regional Federal banks need to have "TESTED banking experience." Let's examine Hughes credentials to sit on the Fed shall we?
Denis Hughes- New York labor union leader. Head of the New York branch of the AFL-CIO labor union. Most of his professional life has been as an electrician and union leader. So really, once again the Obama Administration puts an idiot in charge of our ecomonic health. Oh, BTW, the same guy who allowed President Ahmadinejad to speak at Columbia (Obama's old Alma Mater), Professor Lee Bollinger, was nominated by the Obama hacks to be the deputy chairman, the position Hughes vacated. And no, Bollinger DOES NOT HAVE ANY BANKING EXPERIENCE EITHER. Just in case you were wondering.
Other notables in the Obama Administration include numerous CommieCzars who don't have the slightest clue about what they are doing and of course, don't have the required experience to run the position they were annoited to. For example:
1. Auto Recovery Czar - Ed Montgomery
Title: Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers
Previous experience in Automaking: None.
Hookup: Made $1,200 in political donations to Obama’s presidential campaign.
Wife is the granddaughter of a General Motors worker from Portland, Mich. though.
2. California Water Czar - David J. Hayes
Title: Deputy Interior Secretary
Previous experience in Water Management: Once wrote a policy report (working at the Progressive Policy Institute) that blamed Bush for leaving a damaging legacy in their natural resource management policies. In other words, NONE.
Hookup: A lobbyist who represented the Southern California Metropolitan Water District in 2001.
Donated $2,300 to Obama.
3. Car Czar - Ron Bloom
Title: Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury
Previous experience in Auto Industry: None.
Hookup: Was special assistant to president of the United Steelworkers union from 1996-Feb 2009.
Was raised in New York in a pro-union family, which included a schoolteacher mother and unionized relatives.
Worked for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Same thugs who beat up guy at Townhall meeting.
4. Climate Czar - Todd Stern
Title: Special Envoy for Climate Change
Previous experience in science: NONE. But hey, he has a law degree from, you guessed it...Harvard.
Hookup: Served in the Clinton White House.
Head of the Initiative on Global Climate Change.
Top aide to Clinton on Kyoto Treaty.
Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress (HUGE socialist cabal)
Supports a national cap-and-trade system. (This would make Soros richer.)
5. Drug Czar - Gil Kerlikowske
Title: Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy
Previous experience in Law Enforcement: Was police chief for the city of Seattle from 2000-2009.
Hookup: A strong gun-control advocate. (Makes him a friend of Obama and Eric holder immediately.)
Noted for: Admitting in 2003, that arresting people for personal marijuana possession was not a top priority of the Seattle police department.
As Police Chief actually assigned an officer full-time to the drug court (commuting sentences of drug users who complete medical treatment in lieu of going to jail.)
6. Energy and Environment Czar - Carol Browner
Title: Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change
Previous experience: Worked on the Socialist International's Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which argues that the global community must work collectively to address environmental policies.
Hookup: Was Environmental Protection Agency administrator in the Clinton administration (1993-2000)
Was Florida Secretary of the Environment (1991 to 1993)
Founded and serves as a principal of The Albright Group LLC (global strategy firm led by former SecState Madeleine Albright. Also a principal of Albright Capital Management, an investment advisory firm that concentrates on emerging markets...such as Cap and Trade!)
Blamed Bush (immediate IN with Barry) as the "worst environmental administration ever."
Once told her employees: "We put nothing in writing, ever." (Clinton;s trained her WELL!)
Assisted in destroying computer files (during the Clinton administration) sought by a conservative legal foundation.
7. Government Performance Czar - Jeffrey Zients
Title: Chief Performance Officer
Previous experience: NONE
Hookup: Has donated just over $90,000 to political campaigns since 1999, almost all of which went to Democratic candidates.
Mission: Charged with cutting costs and finding best practices throughout government.
Result: ABJECT FAILURE
8. Green Jobs Czar - Van Jones
Title: Special Adviser for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality
Previous Experience: LOTS!
Hookup: Grassroot organizer from Oakland Cal., Founded Green For All and co-founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and Color of Change, which includes Bay Area PoliceWatch. (Perfect match for the Reverend Wright trainee, Barack Obama).
Noted for: Worked on the Green Jobs Act with Rep. Hilda Solis (D-Calif.), the tax cheat.
Was arrested in the 1999 Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization.
In Nov 2005 stated: "I met all these young radical people of color, I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.' I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary." By August, I was a communist. Formed a socialist collective, Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM, which held study groups on the theories of Marx and Lenin and dreamed of a multiracial socialist utopia.
9. Guantanamo Closure Czar - Daniel Fried
Title: Special envoy to oversee the closure of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay
Previous Prison or Corrections Experience: NONE
10. Intelligence Czar - Dennis Blair
Title: Director of National Intelligence
Previous Intelligence Experience: NONE
Hookup: Unknown
Noted for: Left IDA (Institute for Defense Analyses) under a cloud of controversy in mid-2006.
11. Mideast Peace Czar - George Mitchell
Title: Special Envoy for Middle East Peace
Previous experience: Little
Hookup: A longtime Democrat.
Noted for: Senate majority leader from 1989 to 1994.
Lead investigator into steroid use in Major League Baseball. (Tremendous waste of taxpayer's money and time)
Once led a fact-finding committee to study violence in the Middle East
12. Regulatory Czar - Cass R. Sunstein
Title: Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
Previous Experience: In 2002, wrote a book, "Republic.com," discussed the drawbacks of limitless choices on the Internet. Wanted gov't intervention ala the "fairness doctrine."
In 2004, wrote a book called, "Animal Rights," suggesting that animals ought to be able to bring suit, with private citizens acting as their representatives, to ensure that animals are not treated in a way that violates current law.
Hookup: Is a Harvard Law School professor.
Is a Friend of Barry's ("Cass is not only a valued advisor, he is a dear friend.")
Wants to ban hunting in the U.S. (and probably gun ownership as well).
13. Science Czar - John Holdren
Title: Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Previous REAL WORLD experience: Ivory Towered scholar...in other words: NONE.
Hookup: Advocates the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Believes the United States should sign the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty. (Obama is anti-nuke)
Calls all climate change skeptics "dangerous members of a denier fringe." (Thinks like Obama)
Noted for: In 1971, co-authored a paper in Global Ecology suggesting "some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain to overtake us before the end of the century." We're still here though.
Co-authored in 1977 a book called, "Ecoscience: Population, Resources, and Environment." Includes this statement: "population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution."
14. TARP Czar - Herb Allison
Title: Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability
Previous experience: Interim head of the mortgage-finance company Fannie Mae. (Still losing millions)
Hookup: Donated $2,300 to Obama's presidential campaign.
15. Technology Czar - Aneesh Chopra
Title: Chief Technology Officer
Previous experience: Little (was Virginia’s secretary of technology from 2005-2009)
Hookup: Donated more than $24,000 since 1997 to various Democrat campaigns. Donated $2,750 to Obama’s presidential campaign.
16. Urban Affairs Czar - Adolfo Carrion Jr.
Title: White House Director of Urban Affairs
Previous experience: Little (Earned his master’s degree in urban planning from Hunter College)
Hookup: Was an active campaigner for Obama, travelling across the country to speak on his behalf.
Noted for: Pulling a Blago. (Numerous developers made tens of thousands of dollars in campaign donations to Carrión around the same time he was considering approving their projects in the Bronx. NY Daily News)
17. Weapons Czar - Ashton Carter
Title: Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics
Previous experience: Almost none. (Mid-level policy post in Pentagon from 1993 until 1996 under the Clinton administration.)
Hookup: He gave 6,900 to Obama's campaign.
And there you have it my friends, the blind leading the blind elected by the blind and Americans wonder WHY our nation is tanking? Just thank a liberal.