How can you not like this?

[Tex]

"No more lobbyists in MY administration. This is the audacity of hope, doncha know?"

Unfortunately, we are again asking the president to explain why exactly he announced, with great fanfare, new ethics rules if he had no intention of abiding by them.

The Obama administration is yet again asking for a waiver to its very own rules about hiring lobbyists.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/...iew#cnnSTCText

[MikeWaters]

Tex, the least you could have done was link to the politico article where Obama was asked about this very issue when he just "dropped in" to the press corps, and Obama chided the reporter that if he was going to get harrassed with questions he wouldn't drop by in the future.

[il Padrino Ute]

Here you go, Mike:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17831.html

[Tex]

Via the Corner:

Candidate Obama:

I have done more to take on lobbyists than any other candidate in this race - and I've won. I don't take a dime of their money, and when I am President, they won't find a job in my White House.

National Journal:

a National Journal look at 267 Obama nominees and appointees found that at least 30 — or about 11 percent — have been registered lobbyists at some point during the past five years.

Among them are some top officials: Attorney General Eric Holder was registered as a lobbyist at Covington & Burling as recently as 2004; Tom Vilsack, the former Iowa governor who is Obama's Agriculture secretary, was a registered lobbyist for the National Education Association in 2007; Ron Klain, chief of staff to Vice President Biden, was a lobbyist at O'Melveny & Myers until 2004; and David Hayes, deputy secretary of the Interior, was a lobbyist at Latham & Watkins through 2006.