Obama admits ‘screw up’ on Daschle nom

Speaking with Anderson Cooper, President Barack Obama has admitted he ‘screwed up’ concerning his Tom Daschle nomination – or in the way it was handled…here, you can read the interview for yourself if you missed it on CNN:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/03/obama.qanda/?iref=hpmostpop

Is it bye-bye Buy American?

A view from abroad: the European Union is in a snit of miffdom over the Buy American provision in the Obama administration’s economic stimulus package Congress is now considering:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,605185,00.html

Oh~ and you heard that Tom Daschle has withdrawn his name from consideration for head of Health and Human Services. I figured that would be the outcome – and their closed door meeting must’ve been a doozy – reportedly ‘no hostility’ was involved and Daschle protected the president after all was said and done…and not done.

Now I wonder who will replace Daschle for the appointment - whoever it may be,  make it quick!

Should Obama forget Tom Daschle?

Some people think Pres. Obama should jettison Tom Daschle’s name from his appointees list:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-ostroy/why-obama-must-drop-dasch_b_163088.html

And I agree – Daschle is expendable – Tim Geithner is much less so.

But with Geithner as Treasury Secretary, I’m assuming that he intends to actually improve our economic situation, not continue the undermining of our nation (and the world economy) for the sake of global domination objectives.

So I hope for America’s sake that my assumption isn’t too over-reaching.