Obama Admin: Ain't No Sunshine

If I didn't know better, I'd swear Obama was Bill Withers. An EPA secrecy issue, possibly involving some financial arm twisting, via Michelle Malkin with more. Meanwhile, via Instapundit, the Inspectors General scandals continue to play out. With Obama, what we don't know can hurt us. But that theme was true during the campaign, even while the media portrayed him as one of the most open candidates ever. Unfortunately, we're finding out that joking with his media buddies on the bus is not open - unless you're one of them. And even then, it was likely just a ruse they went for out of ego, perhaps. At least bloggers remain skeptics, as old media types get old and shrivel away in their declining years.

Carol Browner, former Clinton administration EPA head and current Obama White House climate czar, instructed auto industry execs “to put nothing in writing, ever” regarding secret negotiations she orchestrated regarding a deal to increase federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards.

Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-WI, is demanding a congressional investigation of Browner’s conduct in the CAFE talks, saying in a letter to Rep. Henry Waxman, D-CA, that Browner “intended to leave little or no documentation of the deliberations that lead to stringent new CAFE standards.”

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[TmjUtah]

czar = cutout.

A Senate that zeroes in on BCS minutiae while unemployment thunders toward twenty percent and our deficit is projected in trillions is not going to have much drive to investigate their god.

All the czars do is give cover. They add multiple levels of legal complexity in defense of the mission to bring down the Republic. Where will "executive privilege" come in? How can it - none of these appointees are constitutionally required to be confirmed?

But it sure sounds like they have cabinet level powers, doesn't it?

That wheel you see out the window there - yes, Virginia, it came off of your car.

It's about breaking the system. He's got the power and the Congress. All he needs is time.

[Mel Winter]

Check out this related parody: "White House Furthers Its 'Commitment to Transparency' By Requiring That Official Meeting Records Be Written on Plastic Wrap, with Invisible Ink": http://www.optoons.blogspot.com/ (July 9 entry)

[David R. Graham]

That's it, breaking the system. That's precisely it. No scales have fallen off my eyes. I pointed this out last summer. The name of the system breaker is Afro-Mohammedan Imperialism. Sticks in the "i-want-to-get-along" craw, but that's what it is. It is racist and religionist to the core. That's all it is. Very simple, nothing difficult, nothing even hidden. All right out there in plain view -- the best place to hide something.