We Control The Vertical

4:07 pm EST January 20th, 2009 | News | 4 Comments

There is now… a White House blog. Score.

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4 Responses to “We Control The Vertical”

Pryme says:

January 20, 2009 at 4:48 pm

I know, right? How cool is that? and I love this bit:

“Citizen participation will be a priority for the Administration, and the internet will play an important role in that.”

Read It. Live It. Love It.
Jaim says:

January 20, 2009 at 10:44 pm

Maybe Jay can troll there instead of here!
Rheinhard says:

January 21, 2009 at 12:19 am

I irregularly check out various wingnut blogs, and several derisively refer to the “permanent campaign”. You f**kin got that right! If the last 8 years, and the last 2 in particular, have taught us anything, it is that we absolutely need to marshal the troops and keep them writing and calling their Congress-critters (especially Blue Dogs) if we’re to get anything real done at all.
Dave in SoCal says:

January 21, 2009 at 2:13 pm

Well that wasn’t long:

New White House site slams Bush

The new White House website unveiled by President Barack Obama’s team Tuesday includes a shot at former President Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina.

Under the “agenda” portion of the site regarding Katrina, it reads: “President Obama will keep the broken promises made by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. He and Vice President Biden will take steps to ensure that the federal government will never again allow such catastrophic failures in emergency planning and response to occur.”

“President Obama swiftly responded to Hurricane Katrina,” the statement on the site continues. “Citing the Bush Administration’s ‘unconscionable ineptitude’ in responding to Hurricane Katrina, then-Senator Obama introduced legislation requiring disaster planners to take into account the specific needs of low-income hurricane victims.”

Let’s usher in the era of hope and change by taking a dig at the former occupant of the White House. Classless. But not surprising. Is the Obama staff aware that the election is over? Obama is no longer running against Bush. He won. Get over it.

I wonder how long until this entry disappears down the memory hole.

But I did enjoy the part about then-Senator Obama swiftly and heroically leaping into action to… introduce legislation. Wasn’t this his job, as a Senator? And that legislation apparently went nowhere, since I can’t seem to find any related bill sposored by Obama that went beyond the initial introduction. So much for follow through.

That’s kind of like how he heroically tried to stop the housing collapse by… writing a letter. In lieu of introducing legislation, that is. Which again, was his job as a Senator. In 2005 he had the chance to take action by joining John McCain in pushing for passage of S. 190 “Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005″ which would have increased regulation of the secondary mortgage market. He passed.

We should start calling him President Action Item. “Sound and fury, signifying nothing”.