The Devil is in the Details on Obama Appointments

Fleshing out his Cabinet has given President Obama a few headaches but there are even more ominous rumblings in his appointments of Secretaries, Tzars and the Council for the Department of State.

The obvious first choice for review is, of course, Treasury Tzar, err...Secretary, Tim Geihtner. Even though he had tax problems, we were told, he was the only person in the world smart enough to handle the financial mess we find ourselves in. You know, the one the Administration says that "W" left us every chance it gets.

Mr. Giethner's performance has been less than stellar. His first and second bailout plans were so botched that it sent the Dow plummeting.

He can't seem to stay focused. In his recent visit, on Tuesday, before Congress, when asked by Representative Mischelle Bachman (R-MI) if he would "categorically renounce moving away from the dollar" in favor of a new world currency proposed by China and Russia. He stated he would. Less than 24 hours later he took a different view stating in a Press outing that he was open to the idea of a new currency/ The dollar fell sharply on world markets.



He is also at the head of a long lists of Tax Cheats and the cheatin' gose on and on and on. This is a list of the nominees that have run into tax trouble:

Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius
Tom Daschle, the first HHS nominee,
Chief performance officer nominee Nancy Killefer.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner,
US Trade Representative Ron Kirk
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis’s (husband)


This week Obama nominated Harold Hongju Koh to be State Department Council. He is a firm believer in putting the U.S. under the authority of the World Court. This discription of Koh's ideas from a March 30th article in the New York Post.

Judges should interpret the Constitution according to other nations' legal "norms." Sharia law could apply to disputes in US courts. The United States constitutes an "axis of disobedience" along with North Korea and Saddam-era Iraq.

Those are the views of the man on track to become one of the US government's top lawyers: Harold Koh.

President Obama has nominated Koh - until last week the dean of Yale Law School - to be the State Department's legal adviser. In that job, Koh would forge a wide range of international agreements on issues from trade to arms control, and help represent our country in such places as the United Nations and the International Court of Justice.

It's a job where you want a strong defender of America's sovereignty. But that's not Koh. He's a fan of "transnational legal process," arguing that the distinctions between US and international law should vanish.

What would this look like in a practical sense? Well, California voters have overruled their courts, which had imposed same-sex marriage on the state. Koh would like to see such matters go up the chain through federal courts -- which, in turn, should look to the rest of the world. If Canada, the European Human Rights Commission and the United Nations all say gay marriage should be legal -- well, then, it should be legal in California too, regardless of what the state's voters and elected representatives might say.

He even believes judges should use this "logic" to strike down the death penalty, which is clearly permitted in the US Constitution.

According to Glenn Beck, Obama's Transit Tzar, Elizabeth Stoles is going to enact tough new Federal rules on Commuting. This is what she thinks of small town America...

"Mass Transit is a great option for those fortunate enough to have that option, but in small country towns like Boise, Idaho for example, the citizens there haven't been introduced to all the modern technology. Things like mass transit and internet are almost imaginary things to these people. With the climate crisis we don't have time to waste educating them on the issue."

"That's why we're going to crack down on solo commuting. Multi-passenger carpooling will be mandatory and punishable by fees." She also stated that "When your ride alone, you ride with Hitler."