The Snooper Report

Michelle Obama placed an article up this morning about Daschle and his ties to Obama.  She also placed several tidbits from her book on the blog and Chapter One is HORRENDOUS!  The cheating and infightng is comical and sad.  I just wonder where in the United States Constitution all of this is sanctioned.

From Michelle Malkin about half-way down:

[...] Another empty promise.

Over the weekend, the New York Times detailed just how cozy Daschle has been with the White House and the health care industry over the past six months. Daschle has been raking in speech money — billed as the “architect” of Obamacare — and raking in consultant fees for health care clients who stand to benefit from “compromise” proposals Daschle has been lobbying for at the White House and on the Hill:

Six months have passed since the morning when Tom Daschle, the former Senate Democratic leader, under fire for not paying certain taxes, called President Obama in his study off the Oval Office to withdraw his nomination as health secretary and reform czar.

But these days it often seems as if Mr. Daschle never left the picture. With unrivaled ties on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, he talks constantly with top White House advisers, many of whom previously worked for him.

He still speaks frequently to the president, who met with him as recently as Friday morning in the Oval Office. And he remains a highly paid policy adviser to hospital, drug, pharmaceutical and other health care industry clients of Alston & Bird, the law and lobbying firm.

Now the White House and Senate Democratic leaders appear to be moving toward a blueprint for overhauling the health system, centered on nonprofit insurance cooperatives, that Mr. Daschle began promoting two months ago as a politically feasible alternative to a more muscular government-run insurance plan.

It is an idea that happens to dovetail with the interests of many Alston & Bird clients, like the insurance giant UnitedHealth and the Tennessee Hospital Association…

When members and allies of Team Obama engage in back-scratching and Beltway business as usual, it’s not lobbying. It’s “helping” and providing a “resource:” [...]

That post needs several read throughs.  It took me a bit with the checking and crossing and all.

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