The Donklephants have all kinds of shiny revelations lately, with the gift-giver-in-chief offering up his wonderful changey goodness all wrapped in some shiny newcomers to DC:
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama announced on Saturday that close aide Robert Gibbs would be White House press secretary and Ellen Moran of women’s organization Emily’s List would be director of communications.
Obama said Dan Pfeiffer, who heads the Obama transition team’s communications office, would serve at the White House as deputy director of communications.
“These individuals will fill essential roles, and bring a breadth and depth of experience that can help our administration advance prosperity and security for the American people,” Obama said in a statement.
Gibbs, an Obama adviser since 2004, served as communications director to Obama when he was a U.S. senator from Illinois.
But rip off the public face of the “new” administration, and you’ll find a bunch of recycled nuts, rubbery fruit and dense, resistant-to-change cake:
Today, Vice President-Elect Biden and I are pleased to announce the nomination of four individuals who meet these criteria to lead our economic team: Timothy Geithner as Secretary of the Treasury; Lawrence Summers as the Director of our National Economic Council; Christina Romer as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors; and Melody Barnes as Director of the Domestic Policy Council.
One new face mixed in with a bunch of Clintonite “free” (if you’re rich or are a corporation) traders. Hope you weren’t expecting Santa Obama to actually bring you something that might have some grounding in this century, something fresh and new.
Can’t wait to see what the newest version of welfare “reform” is going to be?
Again, this won’t be easy. There are no shortcuts or quick fixes to this crisis, which has been many years in the making – and the economy is likely to get worse before it gets better. Full recovery won’t happen immediately. And to make the investments we need, we’ll have to scour our federal budget, line-by-line, and make meaningful cuts and sacrifices as well – something I’ll be discussing further tomorrow.
You can bet it won’t be any CEOs or other connected sorts who will be making those “meaningful cuts and sacrifices”.
Happy Holidays everybody, and ignore that dense brick of warmed-over triangulation you’ve just been presented!
Watching Anthony Bourdain’s visit to the Tex-Mex border tonight . . . think you mentioned it some time back. . .
Good stuff.
By: Intermittent Bystander on November 25, 2008
at 8:47 pm
oh, love that one, especially the part where he hires the three teams to build a fence, and then has them race to see who can get over, under or through it fast enough.
By: Madman in the Marketplace on November 25, 2008
at 9:03 pm
Shoot. Must have missed that while typing.
Liked the fast food chat, the boat ride near the feral hogs, and even the interview at the crossing point, though. (As one familiar with the US-Quebec border, it’s interesting to see the human(e) faces along the southern stripe of the (cough cough) American flag.
By: Intermittent Bystander on November 25, 2008
at 9:33 pm
IIRC, there was a section in that one about all of the Mexican cooks who end up working as sushi chefs.
By: Madman in the Marketplace on November 25, 2008
at 9:48 pm
Yes . . . he also had some good laughs introducing the “French” chefs at his own NYC restaurant.
Who’s cooking? La Raza!
By: Intermittent Bystander on November 25, 2008
at 9:59 pm
[...] Regifted Fruitcake The Donklephants have all kinds of shiny revelations lately, with the gift-giver-in-chief offering up his wonderful changey goodness all wrapped in some shiny newcomers to DC: U.S. President-elect Barack Obama announced on Saturday that close aide Robert Gibbs would be White House press secretary and Ellen Moran of women’s organization Emily’s List would be director of communications. Obama said Dan Pfeiffer, who heads the Obama transition team’s communications office, would serve at the White House as deputy director of communications. “These individuals will fill essential roles, and bring a breadth and depth of experience that can help our administration advance prosperity and security for the American people,” Obama said in a statement. Gibbs, an Obama adviser since 2004, served as communications director to Obama when he was a U.S. senator from Illinois. [...]
By: Clinton On Best Political Blogs » Blog Archive » Regifted Fruitcake on November 25, 2008
at 10:01 pm
My favorite thing about that show is how every ep of it is a celebration of cultures meeting and mixing and moving and creating beauty.
By: Madman in the Marketplace on November 25, 2008
at 10:17 pm
Well said.
By: Intermittent Bystander on November 25, 2008
at 11:22 pm