DAVID AXELROD “LOVES” Mayor Cory Booker. He said so while calling him an idiot on economics and suggesting he’d better start looking for a firehouse that has openings.
Mitt Romney loves Cory, too, but his team is pretty crazy about Ford and Stevie, too.
This story has marathon legs that equals Mitt’s Etch A Sketch catastrophe.
It’s all so embarrassing for team Obama, but unfortunately they don’t have much cover for themselves where Wall Street, insider coziness and business as usual is concerned.
From the Washington Post on Monday:
The White House visitor records make it clear that Obama’s senior officials are granting that access to some of K Street’s most influential representatives. In many cases, those lobbyists have long-standing connections to the president or his aides. Republican lobbyists coming to visit are rare, while Democratic lobbyists are common, whether they are representing corporate clients or liberal causes.
[...] White House spokesman Eric Schultz referred in a statement to Obama’s “unparalleled commitment to reforming Washington” and noted that this is the first administration to release the visitor records. “The people selected for this article are registered lobbyists, but this article excludes the thousands of people who visit the White House every week for meetings and events who are not,” he said. “Our goal has been to reduce the influence of special interests in Washington — which we’ve done more than any Administration in history.”
The White House visitor logs capture the ordinary (and extraordinary) pulse of the presidency, from state arrival ceremonies to bowling alley tours.
Explore White House visitors databaseActing on a pledge to make government more transparent, Obama released the visitor logs, although he did so to settle a lawsuit seeking the records. The administration publishes the information monthly, with a three-month delay, so the latest information is from January.
I just can’t stop laughing.
The Obama White House got a sudden urge of transparency, but it came because they were settling a lawsuit. How perfect is that?
Didn’t I tell you the perfect match-up was Obama versus Romney.
I’m counting the days until the debate that pits Obama’s saving the auto industry talking points, which tells an American success story, meets up with Romney’s argument that what Pres. Obama actually did was a structured bankruptcy, which caused layoffs and other personal collateral damage that comes with trying to save a company, ala Bain style.
On the other hand, the squeeze play Pres. Obama can put on Mitt over Romneycare is likely to match that.
“The whole process was interesting for me. It’s a little scary,” Menter said. “You need a lobbyist to get a meeting.” – White House visitor logs provide window into lobbying industry
The founders would not recognize this country.
President Obama’s detractors won’t be able to control their glee for the next couple of days so his supporters should just keep going. Eventually this will go down the memory hole like everything else does in this country!
” The founders would not recognize this country. ” Yes they would. They would recognize it as everything they tried to prevent.
Solo, you would be doing the samething if this happened to Romney. I am sure this will be brought up every once in awhile. Yes Taylor, this is the country where Big Bussiness and Wall Street rule. Yep, President Obama can and proberly will bring up Romneycare, and the Supreme Court will also have a say in that also. Its going to be interesting. The Democrats and Republicans disagree with social issues, but when it comes to big bussiness, they are tied together. They can pretend they are not, but they always tell on themselves like Booker and many others, the truth will set them free, but its going to come with a cost like Bookers political career. Well, he can hang out with his buddy Chris Christie alittle more. And no the founding fathers would not recognize this country, and I am sure they are turning over in their graves.
I have to laugh when people, especially people who claim to be progressive, hold up the founding fathers as this ideal. The 18th century wasn’t kind to the sort of people who frequent this site. If any of you got into a Delorean and went back to 1776 after a few days of slavery, not being able to vote cuz your not a wealthy landowner or no minimum all of you would be desperate to return to 2012!
Taylor, it’s not Booker’s fault. He picked up the 2008 talking points sheet for surrogates “there are no red states and blue states there is but one United States of America.” This year, the 2012 talking points sheet admits there are red states and blue states and I do not come from nor represent the one you deem evil. Trust and vote for me. Forward.
Memo to Booker: Never go full retard. The audience doesn’t like it.
Never go full retard.
Since I’m in the “None of the Above” camp aka “Obama and Romney can go Blockheadville”, I find this INSANELY ENTERTAINING simply because of what Taylor said:
ROFL! Yes. What we’re seeing here my good folk is two Harvard Boys trying to out intellectual each other with one playing a Democratic guitar and the other a Republican guitar. But in the end, Barack and Mitt are two Harvard Boys that would be EXTREMELY comfortable chillin’ with each other on the veranda overlooking a golf course (no disrespect to Harvard, verandas, and golf courses). I mean really look at both of them, they are the same. They have to resort to re-coloring themselves into things so different from what they really are that they just stumble stupidly.
Taylor, I think you want to get a good photo of President Obama and Romney in suits. Put them side by side and make up a fictional multinational corporation name. LOL!
Harvard Boys.
Perhaps it time to question what ‘Ivy League Schools’ are all about. The best education? Or the best place to connect?
A hilariou Daily Kos look at Republican GOP Presidential candidates who once were Romney opponents before they became Romney surrogates
“[They] loot companies, leave behind broken families, broken towns.” —Newt Gingrich
“It’s the ultimate insult when Mitt Romney comes to South Carolina and tells you he feels your pain—because he caused it. [...] There is something inherently wrong when getting rich off failure and sticking it to someone else is how you do your business. I happen to think that is indefensible.” —Rick Perry
“Governor Romney has claimed to have created over 100,000 jobs at Bain, and people are wanting to know: is there proof of that claim? And was it U.S. jobs created for United States citizens? [...] And that’s fair, that’s not negative campaigning.” —Sarah Palin
“Governor Romney enjoys firing people.” —Jon Huntsman
“While Mitt Romney was at Bain Capital, almost one out of every four companies they were involved with went bankrupt or went out of business.” —John Brabender, Rick Santorum campaign manager