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Obama Ethics Chief: Hey, Those Ethics Rules We Used For Obama Were Way Too Loose

Posted at 5:30 pm on January 8, 2017 by streiff



Over the weekend Obama’s head of the Office of Government Ethics, this would be the agency that found nothing wrong whatsoever in Bill Clinton’s speeches or Hillary Clinton running a pay-to-play operation out of the State Department, has inserted itself squarely in the process underway to confirm Donald Trump’s cabinet officials. It has done so by asserting, contrary to the law, that the OGE has to clear nominees — it doesn’t have that ability or authority — and that it has to finish its bean-counting before the new government can actually start to work.

Viewed in the most charitable way possible, this is a tiny agency that is drunk on its own self-importance. It thinks of itself as the engineer in the locomotive of government rather than the porter back in the baggage car moving suitcases around. View for the standpoint of reality, you have an agency run by an Obama appointee trying every way it can to obstruct the Trump administration taking office. And while it doesn’t have the actual legal ability to do so, it is carrying on a guerrilla war in the media to discredit the confirmation process by attacking the integrity of the nominees and of Mitch McConnell and the committee chairmen conducting the confirmation hearings.

This week, for instance, the OGE decided that the ethics rules that worked perfectly well for the Obama administration suddenly just weren’t stringent enough:



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The federal office overseeing ethics for executive branch employees is considering cracking down on a type of financial arrangement that allows some federal officials to avoid publicly reporting investments that could benefit them.

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http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2017/01/08/obama-ethics-chief-hey-ethics-rules-used-obama-way-loose/

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The hypocrisy of the left is limitless.
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The hypocrisy of the left is limitless.

Let's hope they keep it up.... 888bravo
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