With only a few days to go before Obama's coronation, the drive-by media has been engorged with the praises and talents of Obama's Cabinet Nominations. 

And, oh (feign surprise) Republicans in the Senate have been just as accommodating to the nominees and their records of "service".  Republicans can't seem to say enough about how wonderful Obama is, and how well-qualified his army of fascists are.  His army will be the best, the brightest, and the most accomplished in the history of Presidential Cabinets...but accomplished in what?

Notwithstanding the bloated Republican Senators and their lifeless party, the audacity of Barack's nominations are breath-taking.

Attorney General, Eric Holder -- Who should Barack choose to uphold the law of the land and fight for justice in the name of the American people?  Why, a man who made his name pardoning terrorists, of course! 

Eric Holder is the man who helped Bill Clinton pardon unrepentant FALN terrorists who killed New York City Police Officers and bombed more than 100 sites; the man who helped Clinton pardon Marc Rich, who made millions by doing business with Iran, while Iran held Americans hostage; the man who purposefully hid these pardons from the Justice Department, US Attorneys and the victims' families.  Read this excellent submitted testimony by Debra Burlingame, sister of one of the American Airlines pilots murdered on 9-11, for more shocking details.

Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner -- Who should head up the Treasury Department and oversee the IRS during this time of economic instability?  Why, a tax-evader, of course!

A few years ago, it has been discovered, Geithner decided he wasn't going to pay his "fair share" of taxes to the IRS.  He signed a paper from his employer, the IMF, stating that he knew he would have to file his own taxes on the salary he received.  He also took the $34,000 for owed-taxes from the IMF, that should have gone to the IRS, and then refused to hand it over to Uncle Sam.  Geithner's explanation is that it was all a little tiny mistake.  So, it's a good thing that we are puting trillions of dollars into the hands of a man who couldn't figure out what it would take me 90 seconds to figure out using Turbo Tax...right?  The truth is, he isn't even smart enough to get away with tax evasion.

Now, I'm sure we'd all love to refuse to pay our taxes...especially in this economy.  But I seem to remember a pompous, bald, deleterious sort of man wagging his finger at us and telling all of us that it's "patriotic" to pay our taxes and that we all have to do our fair share.  Could it be that Joe Biden finds Geithner unpatriotic?  No.  Of course not.  Because when Geithner gives the finger to the IRS...he wins an appointment to oversee it.  When you or I give the finger to the IRS...we win an appointment to oversee an audit and a jail cell.  Read this article, if you feel like retching after you learn about the "loyal opposition" Republicans who just can't wait to affirm his nomination.

CIA Director, Leon Panetta -- Who should run Obama's Intelligence Agency...perhaps the most important post in Obama's Cabinet during a time of war?  Who among us should be chosen to be ever-vigilant with foresight and experience with the risks to our national security?  Why, someone with no experience and no interest in American strength, now that the Soviet Union is gone, of course!

Leon Panetta is a staffer.  He worked hard in his little office, during the Clinton years, to be sure that i's were dotted and t's were crossed on every Presidential budget.  But there must be more to his resume.  It's got to be here somewhere...that intelligence experience that is so critical at this juncture in our fight against Islamo-terrorists.  Hmmm...not on the Board of Directors for Bread for the World.  Maybe it's here...no...not as an "ocean reformer" and advocate for the Monterrey Bay Aquarium.  Did he get his intelligence experience from all those years preventing oil drilling off the coast of California?  No.  Oh, I know...here it is...here is his intelligence experience...he was once a Second Lieutenant in the Army, for two years, back in the 60's.  Oh, and he is a professor who sat on the Iraq Study Group, which wrote pages upon pages of recommendations and facts about the Iraq War.  And I'm sure that having yet another group of past-their-prime politicians littering the streets with their informed opinions about the war was very helpful to the President and to the Military Community.

And what does Panetta think about our defense budget, and the importance of maintaining strength in our defenses, so that we may enjoy peace?  In an interview with the Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley in May 2000, he talked about his views and his attitude during budget talks with Republicans in the mid-1990s, "Wait a minute, we don't need the kind of defense expenditures that you're talking about. We can find some savings in this area. It is not going to jeopardize our national security."

Oh, I don't know Leon...after two holes in Manhattan, a burned out Pentagon, a listing USS Cole, wreckage in a field in Pennsylvania, two bombed-out embassies in Africa and thousands of dead Americans...I'd say that our national security was actually jeopardized during your stay at the White House.  And we are still struggling to recover from the gutting of the CIA and Pentagon that you helped oversee.

Commerce Secretary, Bill Richardson -- Who should run Obama's Commerce Department?  Who should be given the power to dole out millions of dollars to US businesses to help boost their "bottom line"?  Why, the man who took $100,000 in political contributions from a company, in exchange for sending them $1.5 million in government contracts, of course! 

Just because Bill Richardson used New Mexico's commerce department to funnel taxpayer dollars to some of his crony friends in "big business" doesn't mean that he would do the same if given the chance to serve in Washington, right?  Well, I guess we will never know, since Richardson withdrew his name from the nomination process.  Read more about Richardson and his Blago-like money games.

And then there was Hillary.  Look, I could write 15 posts about the reasons why she shouldn't become our Secretary of State, not the least of which is the fact that she peddled her influence as a Senator to enrich her own finances and help Bill out with some of his overseas lobbying activities.  But everyone knows the story of the Clintons.  They are as corrupt as the day is long...and the day just doesn't seem to want to end.

So...there is your Cabinet America.  The men and women who are anxious to line their own pockets and let the terrorists have free reign at home and abroad.

And just like the first bailout bill...we are told that it is imperative that these nominees receive fair and expedited treatment.  We are told that Obama's ascension must be quick, painless and absolutely, positively without objection from our side.

So everyone in Washington is running around like chickens without their heads, desperate to seem relevant, desperate to feel useful and desperate to put their rubber stamp on the foreheads of these nominees.

Are they the Knights of the Round Table, gallant and brave?  No.  Are they the Members of the Continental Congress, wise and conscientious?  No.  They are part of a freak show that has just arrived in DC.  Step right up, folks, and see the unnatural and the bizarre...criminals to run our justice department, tax-evaders to run the IRS and Treasury Department, a staffer to run our Intelligence operation and the boy who would be king, to sit in the Oval Office.

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