HILLARY CLINTON EMERGES AS STATE DEPARTMENT CANDIDATE
The Associate Press is now reporting Sen Hillary Clinton may be up for the post of Secretary of State. Um, yes please! I'd like to have a serious woman in that position once again. Madeline Albright, you did your best and Condi? Er, not so much.
If this proves to be true, this move made by the Obama-Biden administration will be something that will reign in more support to their cause. For the former Hillary supporters who never got behind the "Yes We Can Express" this is a renewal of the hope we once thought was lost: a chance to have Hillary in the White House. She's already ruled out running for president in 2012, so this is the next best thing for Hillary. (besides being VP, of course)
Cross your fingers everyone that this report turns out to be a true one. I can't honestly imagine anyone else more perfect for the position of Secretary of State than Hillary Clinton. She's got experience and knowledge that Obama won't even have until his tenure in the White House is up. We need her in the White House! Because if Biden, who was picked as VP for his foreign policy expertise, can't talk Obama into/out of something -- Clinton sure can.
UPDATE:
Officials: Sen. Clinton eyed as secretary of state
I guess there is more truth to this story than I thought. In another story released by the AP, it states two Democratic insiders have divulged the information about Clinton's possibly candidacy for the 3rd highest ranking in the executive branch. I just hope these "insiders" aren't bumbling douches like the McCain "insiders" who blabbed information about Palin that we didn't care to know about (ie. answering hotel door in a towel!) after the campaign lost its bid for the White House. Time will tell.
Thursday 13 November 2008
REALLY? Ya think?!
BAILOUT LACKS OVERSIGHT...
Watchdog Panel is Empty; Report is Unfinished
The Washington Post reported today that money granted as a bailout for our failing economy is not being watched. Huh... Tell me something shocking cuz this news sure isn't!
I supported the bailout at first. They said some nice things and pounded in the word oversight into every speech given by a politician about this bill. The word oversight is sorely lacking in our government right now, so whenever a politician mentioned it, it made us feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Right? It made us feel like we could trust this bailout to do something, even if we knew it wouldn't help 'Main Street' right away. McCain and Obama supported it so how could we not support it? Too bad the politicians we should have listened to were the ones speaking sentences that placed the phrase "need some palpable" before the word oversight.
This bailout cannot work if there is no functional oversight. We all know this! With $290 billion already in the hands of large banks like Bank of America, no one is around to watch what happens with the money borrowed against our ever-growing national debt. There also isn't a group of people overseeing what the bill can do next. With a lame-duck Congress that will probably wait until the new session begins in January to do anything about this and doubts that anyone will understand the bill enough to oversee it's purpose, this $700 billion bailout is now another cloud looming over the hell that is 2008.
Hurrah...
Watchdog Panel is Empty; Report is Unfinished
The Washington Post reported today that money granted as a bailout for our failing economy is not being watched. Huh... Tell me something shocking cuz this news sure isn't!
I supported the bailout at first. They said some nice things and pounded in the word oversight into every speech given by a politician about this bill. The word oversight is sorely lacking in our government right now, so whenever a politician mentioned it, it made us feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Right? It made us feel like we could trust this bailout to do something, even if we knew it wouldn't help 'Main Street' right away. McCain and Obama supported it so how could we not support it? Too bad the politicians we should have listened to were the ones speaking sentences that placed the phrase "need some palpable" before the word oversight.
This bailout cannot work if there is no functional oversight. We all know this! With $290 billion already in the hands of large banks like Bank of America, no one is around to watch what happens with the money borrowed against our ever-growing national debt. There also isn't a group of people overseeing what the bill can do next. With a lame-duck Congress that will probably wait until the new session begins in January to do anything about this and doubts that anyone will understand the bill enough to oversee it's purpose, this $700 billion bailout is now another cloud looming over the hell that is 2008.
Hurrah...
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