Heros need not apply for assignments in Obama Administration WTF.........

Obama's White House: Big posts, overlapping tasks - Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is building a White House staff so loaded with big names and overlapping duties that it could collapse into chaos unless managed with a juggler's skill.

It's an administration that seems "addicted to czars," says one longtime observer of government organization.

Obama has installed a White House health czar who doubles as secretary of Health and Human Services. The State Department now has "special envoys" for the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and for climate change — areas already overseen by other officials.

Just for the environment, along with the new climate envoy Obama has an energy secretary, an Environmental Protection Agency director and a chief of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Hovering over them all is Carol Browner, a high-profile former EPA administrator in a newly created role some call "climate czarina."

Funny didn't we just go through 8 years of just that --no experts -- czar then where just CEO on loan and wow that was fun. 


Maybe, I am guessing, this reporter would only want sheeple to be
choosen for post in this Administration and heros need not apply
nothing to see folk just the constituitonal, bankin and every other
system failing --no worries our top people are right on



So to this AP reporter, tip of the hat for doin your job, which is guess is now writing tripe like this seeing how he has been in office for a WEEK and you never seem to care if Bush & Co dismantled everything, but the physical White House.

Obama, White House, Staff, Czars, AP

There is a new top Cop in town, Holder, Eric Holder.......AG @ Our Service.

WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans, who acted like lions in challenging Eric Holder, turned into lambs Wednesday as they joined Democrats in recommending President Barack Obama's choice for attorney general.

The Judiciary Committee voted 17-2 to endorse Holder, with two Republicans opposing the nomination — John Cornyn of Texas and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma. The Senate could vote as early as Thursday to confirm Holder as the first African-American to lead the Justice Department.

Committee Republicans and Democrats described Holder as experienced, independent, tough on crime and opposed to torture. Holder has served as a federal prosecutor, judge, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia and deputy attorney general in Bill Clinton's presidency. Senators also said the nominee was an individual willing to acknowledge his mistakes. Senate committee OKs Holder for attorney general - Yahoo! News

On a personal note I have seen Eric up close during a campaign  and I have to say that he is one of the most stand up humans that I have ever known and the voice of reason just got some leg, shoulders and a mustache. I am sure there is a blog about Federal Staches in here...........

btw The bad guys just tinkled in their shorts.

ps note the @ our service in title --Mr AG we will demand rights from the people's government that are expressed and yet somehow not handed out without a few teeth of federalism havin to be pry'd loose along the way and that is not right and I know you know it.

 

Obama, Eric Holder, AG, Attorney General, Senate confirms,

Gee you just figured this out and that is not all.

How Rove Directed Federal Assets for GOP Gains - washingtonpost.com

ow Rove Directed Federal Assets for GOP Gains
Bush Adviser's Effort to Promote the President and His Allies Was Unprecedented in Its Reach

By John Solomon, Alec MacGillis and Sarah Cohen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, August 19, 2007; Page A01

Thirteen months before President Bush was reelected, chief strategist Karl Rove summoned political appointees from around the government to the Old Executive Office Building. The subject of the Oct. 1, 2003, meeting was "asset deployment," and the message was clear:

The staging of official announcements, high-visibility trips and declarations of federal grants had to be carefully coordinated with the White House political affairs office to ensure the maximum promotion of Bush's reelection agenda and the Republicans in Congress who supported him, according to documents and some of those involved in the effort.

If you are also going to start looking under the covers of this Administration I would suggest asking for the time sheets of the advance teams that run all of these events. Anyone to guess how many hours of Hatch Act violations one would find? See these Advance folks that are not in the Office of Advance, and there are not too many of them since Poppa Bush cut the White House budget on his way out of office and to handicap Clinton's ability to travel. So unless the budget for advance has gone up the Advance Team is being assembled with folks that are working at and in various agencies or private companies. One they are assigned to a team and a trip they are on the Executive branch's payroll.

Where this get tricky is if they are being warehoused at an agency and then put on a trip. When this happens they have to put in for vacation time at their existing agency or face breaking the Hatch Act. The trips then get real tricky when these trips have both official and private events. Because the reimbursement off the official White House detail has to be covered by the Host of the private events. This then has to be squared with now the official staff and these extra advance staffers are accounted for in the cost breakdown and reimbursements.

This is been a problem every since the reduction in the White House budget and I have not heard it being fixed so who is paying and who is working and when. Just a few questions I would ask if I was a reporter.



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