Obama Administration Hires Lobbyist It Attacked In 2008 The Washington Free Beacon By Andrew Stiles, March 5, 2012
The Obama administration has hired former lobbyist Steve Ricchetti to serve as counselor to Vice President Joe Biden, Politico’s Mike Allen reports.
Ricchetti, who served as deputy chief of staff under President Bill Clinton, was a registered federal lobbyist for nearly a decade. In 2001, he founded Ricchetti, Inc., described as “one of the most successful and respected boutique government relations firms in Washington.”
“I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over,” Obama said on Nov. 10, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa. “They have not funded my campaign, they will not run my White House, and they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I am president.”
Obama also promised voters “lobbyists won’t find a job in my White House,” a claim the nonpartisan watchdog website Politifact.com has rated a “promise broken.”
At 9:30 into his speech at the Jefferson Jackson Fund Raising Dinner, Des Moines, Iowa, November 10th, 2007 (emphasis mine):
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“I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over. I have done more than any other candidate in this race to take on the lobbyists, and I have won. They have not funded my campaign, they will not work in my White House, and they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I am president!”
HHS mandate could close 13 percent of the nation’s hospitals
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WASHINGTON, D.C., March 6, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com)—The nation’s Catholic bishops have vowed to close their religious institutions rather than comply with the HHS mandate that they provide insurance coverage for contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs.
I am betting that if they domicile their headquarters in the Vatican (an independent Sovereign nation) and claim themselves as same basis as the 253 extranational jurisdictions that have already been established. ie - not domiciled in the US - NOT respondant to US domestic law. (You know the chinese are going to do what ever the they want with their 50 square miles of territory south of Boise)
"I can't see it. They must conform to the law of the land, whatever it may be, just like every other land owner in America."
and I would wager you are incorrect based on their economic zones performance in china - and how they had carved out niche amnesty regions from socialist realism because of good old fashioned money. And nobody is running to the Chinese as a model of Environmental friendliness. The first EPA agent or environmental protest with an 'impact' statement - and someone will end up 'disappeared' or publicly run over with a tank - for good measure.
Those entities - are going to be and are chartered to be INDEPENDENT sovereign entities - as say a large consulate - we have NO jurisdiction.
They learned from the Japanese and Pearl Harbor - if you cant bomb it into submission - buy it by subdivision.
True enough. The economic zones in places like, say, Panama, are autonomous. Making them transfer points for drugs, guns and other weaponry or any thing needed to be moved around the world in secrecy for nefarious purposes without scrutiny. The camel's nose under the tent flap.
Story linked by Drudgery. Odd, what, that the Russian press gives us more insight into how our system works in electoral political skullduggery than we'll ever get from our US media numbskullery.
The puppet called Barack can't do all this stuff by himself, can he? Surely puppetmasters Soros and Kissinger at least are helping.
"The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is dedicated to one-world government, financed by a number of the largest tax exempt foundation (i.e. Rockefeller), and wielding such power and influence over our lives in the areas of finance, business, labor, military, education, and mass communication media, that it should be familiar to every American concerned with good government and with preserving and defending the US Constitution and our free-enterprise system. Yet, the nation's right-to-know machinery, the news media; usually so aggressive in exposures to inform our people, remain silent when it comes to the CFR, its members and their activities. The CFR is the establishment. Not only does it have influence and power in key decision-making positions at the highest levels of government to apply pressure from above, but it also finances and uses individuals and groups to bring pressure from below, to justify the high level decisions for converting the US from a sovereign Republic into a servile member of a one-world dictatorship." - Congressman John R. Rarick
UN and CFR have their HQ in New York, Capital of the World. The agenda is in the open, blatantly in you face, but only if you want to see it. NATO is ready and waiting as New World Order policeman. The former Prime Minister of NZ Helen Clark, a Fabianist, is number three at the UN, and she was never shy about her ambitions and plans for us.
That's 'all of us', not just the US.
Fb1, you've put a lot of work into all your recent posts and thank you.
"The Rockefeller File is not fiction. It is a compact, powerful and frightening presentation of what may be the most important story of our lifetime - the drive of the Rockefellers and their allies to create a one-world government combining super-capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control.......not one has dared reveal the most vital part of the Rockefeller story: that the Rockefellers and their allies have, for at least fifty years, been carefully following a plan to use their economic power to gain political control of first America, and then the rest of the world. Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent". On 31 August 1983, McDonald was killed aboard Korean Airline 007 flight which "accidentally" strayed over Soviet airspace and was "accidentally" shot down. The media reporting was scant and short-lived and not a single mention was publicly made about the fact that McDonald had been heading a congressional effort to expose what he called a dangerous international conspiracy." - In November of 1975, Congressman Larry P. McDonald spearheaded efforts against the New World Order. He wrote the introduction to The Rockefeller File which stated the above.
Gas prices sink Obama’s ratings on economy, bring parity to race for White House March 12, 2012
Disapproval of President Obama’s handling of the economy is heading higher — alongside gasoline prices — as a record number of Americans now give the president “strongly” negative reviews on the 2012 presidential campaign’s most important issue, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
I'm going to blame this one right on Mccain-Fiengold. Without that bills blatant violation of the Constitution, denying free speech to all, we'd not have Super Pacs. We'd not have elitist ex-comedians ( when you're no longer funny, you're no longer a comedian ) giving a million dollars to a pac not "controlled" by the politician it's pimping for.
Isn't that convenient? Mitt, or Rick, or Barack can deny that the robocalls you get at 3 am are in any way their fault... and the current trend looks like you may get a call "from Mitt" ( for example ) that spouts racist bile into your ear.... paid for by a pro Barry pac that he has "no control over".
Sweet. I always wondered what life was like with the Borgias in charge.
Regulation Nation: New study finds Obama’s regs cost $46 billion a year
Some 10,215 new federal regulations from the Obama administration are costing consumers, businesses and the economy overall $46 billion annually, more than five times the regulatory price tag of former President Bush in his first three years in office. Worse: just implementing those regulations had a one-time additional cost of $11 billion, according to a Heritage Foundation analysis...
President Obama's national health care law will cost $1.76 trillion over a decade, according to a new projection released today by the Congressional Budget Office, rather than the $940 billion forecast when it was signed into law.
Democrats employed many accounting tricks when they were pushing through the national health care legislation, the most egregious of which was to delay full implementation of the law until 2014, so it would appear cheaper under the CBO's standard ten-year budget window...
... Only next year will we get a true ten-year cost estimate, if the law isn't overturned by the Supreme Court or repealed by then. Given that in 2022, the last year available, the gross cost of the coverage expansions are $265 billion, we're likely looking at about $2 trillion over the first decade, or more than double what Obama advertised.
Pundits gasp as economy dents Obama's poll numbers
You can almost hear the note of surprise in their voices when you read the Washington Post and New York Times reporters' stories on their papers' latest political polls. Surprise! Just when they thought that Barack Obama was pulling ahead, with positive job ratings, and just after the mainstream media have been savaging Republicans for two words Rush Limbaugh uttered on his radio program, Obama's numbers seem to be tanking.
Wow, who would have ever thought that a professional student of bullshit and fart sniffing couldn't jump start the economy with fairy tail wishes of outdated green energy and limitless tax dollars. Its almost as if America divided by zero back in 08.