Michelle Malkin has a lengthy overview of the ways the ObamiNation has tried to shut up its critics. The open regarding the Congressional Budget Office illustrates what the Chicago Way really is:
Six months into the Obama administration, it should now be clear to all Americans: Hope and Change came to the White House wrapped in brass knuckles.
Ask the Congressional Budget Office. Last week, President Obama spilled the beans on the Today Show that he had met with CBO director Douglas Elmendorf – just as the number-crunchers were casting ruinous doubt on White House cost-saving claims. Yes, question the timing. The CBO is supposed to be a neutral score-keeper – not a water boy for the White House. But when the meeting failed to stop the CBO from issuing more analysis undercutting the health care savings claims, Obama’s budget director Peter Orszag played the heavy.
Orszag warned the CBO in a public letter that it risked feeding the perception that it was “exaggerating costs and underestimating savings.” Message: Leave the number-fudging to the boss. Capiche?
With a tip of the cap to Dafydd ab Hugh, we can add one more item – the stripping of diplomatic visas from members of Honduras’ government (which Ed Morrissey notes was done at the urging of the dictator-wannabe Mel Zelaya), while at the same time considering diplomatic outreach to the Taliban. Dafydd also has the motto of the ObamiNation – “Keep your enemies close, and your mortal enemies actually in bed with you.”
