Day 2 of Hope and Change Brings Media Outrage and Broken Promises

I'm starting to like the Obama Administration. It's going to provide me with no end of things to write about.

First of all, The Swamp has the details on the outraged press corps which didn't have the opportunity to view firsthand the second swearing in ceremony. That honeymoon may have been the briefest on record.

And then there's this, also from The Swamp:

When is a ban on lobbyists in an administration not a ban on lobbyists in an administration? When you need a lobbyist who knows how the Pentagon works to help run the defense establishment.

That's the situation the new Obama Administration finds itself in. Obama nominated William J. Lynn III as his Deputy Defense Secretary in a role that would require Lynn to essentially be the chief operations officer in that mammoth bureaucracy.

But Lynn was among, other things, a lobbyist for Raytheon Co., one of the nation's largest defense contractors.

To not violate the new executive order the president signed yesterday, Lynn would require a waiver from the new administration.

That would seem to violate the spirit of Obama's ban, something which numerous people, including the Project on Government Oversight, are now pointing out.

Read the rest here. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says that tough regulation requires common sense exceptions. Nope. Tough regulation has no exceptions. Weak regulation issued for purposes of looking tough in a press conference allows exceptions.

In addition to all of this, tax cheat Tim Geithner will likely become the new Treasury chief, thus putting him in charge of the IRS. Fox guarding the henhouse time.

And, during the press conference in which Obama signed the order calling for the closing of Gitmo in one year, he repeatedly had to ask White House Counsel Greg Craig what it was he was signing and what it all really meant. Can you remember even one instance when President Bush had to ask a subordinate in front of the press what it was he was signing? If it had ever happened I'm sure we would have seen endless reruns of it on various news and comedy programs.

I've thought all along that there was a power behind the Obama throne, and now I wonder if Craig is the puppetmaster.