WHEN'S A LOBBYIST NOT A LOBBYIST? -- When He/She's transparent! -- JUST A MINUTE RADIO FOR MONDAY 100628

            Howdy… it’s MONDAY! --- and Hot and Sticky has been the rule… and threatens some more…

 

            But it’s nice when a T-storm comes by and drops the temp by 20 degrees or so…  If you don’t begin to feel like a steamed clam… then you’re OK down South of the Mason-Dixon Line…  The town where my wife lived during her High School Daze – used to have a BIG Dixie cup factory right there in the heart of Yankee Land… it was a landmark all the kids used to see who could pick it out first when we were visiting there in the summers…

 

            Those were the daze all right… hot and hotter… and before A/C was very common.  I think I heard it said once movies would not have been successful if it had not been for the fact down South that was one place you could go for a couple of hours to get cool.  The other place was the ICE House… where you had to go to buy ice… if you were planning to make a ‘churn’ of peach ice cream.  That’s what used to keep people alive here in South Carolina. (J)…And I have Cousins around these parts who were – and I guess still are – great Watermelon fans. Matter of fact we’ve got one in the air conditioned kitchen right now… I hope we get to it before long.  But it’s one of them “little-uns” – everything’s little about it except the price.  But my wife says I live back in the 18^th century anyway when it comes to pricing stuff… or worse, paying for it.

 

            Anyway be sure and be listening to today’s JUST A MINUTE…. I’m sure the folks at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Washington DC would be so *glad* to hear from you via e-mail etc…if you ask them what a good definition for transparency is.  They ‘re having a hard enough time figuring out what they ought to be doing for their Summit meetings.  I hear $19,000,000 – that’s Million with an “M” was the cost they had to lay on to have safety fences to protect all the bigwigs coming in for the weekend. 

 

            Maybe they’ll learn a conference call is cheaper.  ‘Course they’re not worried… the US is on the hook for most of the bill anyway… Ah well…not a great way to start off the week is it.?  Well – Just remember – Happiness is a DECISION!

 

            You can keep a smile on your face if you’ll just listen to a Jimmy Durante record.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

 

            Jack & Barbara

 

 

“JUST A MINUTE”

WHEN’S A LOBBYIST NOT A LOBBYIST – WHEN HE’S TRANSPARENT

 

Just a Minute: -- Asked by the NEW YORK TIMES if they were aware how many meetings go on between staffers and lobbyists at nearby coffeehouses – Dan Pfeiffer, Director of Communications for the Obama White House said: (Quote) “This administration has taken unprecedented steps to increase the openness and transparency of the White House, … We expect that all White House employees adhere to their obligations under our very stringent ethics rules regardless of who they are meeting with or where they meet.”

          Three reporters worked on a major piece last Thursday questioning why so many staff/lobbyist meetings go on just two blocks away in light of the President’s pre-election ‘transparency’ promise.

          Rahm Emanuel – White House Chief of Staff meets weekly with a private group of lobbyists at the Capital Hilton according to last Thursday’s edition of the TIMES.  This is happening in spite of the President’s complaint about “battalions” of lobbyists ‘exerting undue influence’ on government operations and policy.

          Well…  Last weeks rumors indicated Emanuel will likely bail-out after November. His bucket must have a leaky hole in it.  

<> I’m Jack Buttram.  (END)

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