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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Hound is AWOL
	Date:	1/22/2009 10:23:29 PM

I think she is keeping a low profile after she chastised us lemmings because we just don't understand how Washington works and we called her on her actual quals. No response since then although I am still wildly curious about her actual background. I suspect she spent 20 years working for the Feds at mid to low levels like the zillion others. Probably has insight but not as high level as she implied.

Her frustration is legitimate. She desparately wants her vote to have been for the right man and already I think there is enough to make her anxious. He is looking desparately weak already on foreign affairs with the precipitous announcement of the closure of Gitmo with absolutely no idea what they are going to do with all these really bad guys we have there.

He has given press conferences about executive orders that Greg Craig had to actually give him the words to say about what they mean. Did you hear that? I have never in my life heard a President parrot what some staffer is telling him verbatim during a press conference with the microphone picking up what the staffer says and then he said exactly the same words. Greg Craig, the human teleprompter.

His cabinet appointments included the treasury secretary that cheats on his taxes, the commerce secretary that had to withdraw because of corruption, the "no lobbyist" administration with two lobbyists being proposed for senior administration positions, the chief of staff that had multiple conversations with Blago and is in press seclusion so he doesn't have to answer the press, the $150 million inauguration (3 x the next largest) at a time when ordinary Americans are losing their jobs in droves, his proposed $850 billion stimulus package that is only going to stimulate larger and more intrusive government and like the seven years of failed economic policies of FDR will not work and wil make things worse......I could go on and on but I have made my point.

He is being shrewd with his outreach to Republicans and knowing the group we have he will for sure coopt enough of them to obtain cover for some of his less egregious proposals. Useful idiots like Graham and others.