Obama signed two executive orders and three presidential directives aimed at making government more open and accountable and taking steps toward fulfilling some of his campaign promises.

The president said that when top White House aides leave government, they are barred from lobbying “for as long as I am president, and there will be a ban on gifts by lobbyists to anyone serving in the administration.”

Lobbying Limits

A lobbyist who joins the Obama administration also is forbidden from working on issues they previously were involved with, he said. Any person who leaves the administration will be barred from lobbying the government for two years.

“We need to close the revolving door that lets lobbyists come into government freely and lets them use their time in public service” to promote their own interests when they leave, the president said. Government hiring, he said, will henceforth be based on qualifications, competence and experience, “not political connections.”

Regarding the pay freeze, which will leave pay levels for senior positions where they were under President George W. Bush, Obama said he is acting because “families are tightening their belts and so should Washington.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aYSQ9OT7ErVU&refer=home

The blatant lies and unaccountability is what kills me the most.

example,
“President Barrack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this president throughout history,” he said.

The job loss came way before Obama took office. If anything he stopped the loss. If not reversed it.
And he did it without Republican cooperation. The party of No were more concerned with attempting to make Obama look bad than in helping him turn the economy around or create jobs for Americans.
They were and are more concerned with helping their rich friends and safeguarding corporate interests.

Do they think the American people have forgotten when and under who's watch the jobs were lost?


Do they think we will forget the denial when the signs of economic doom were showing? When if instead of denial something might have been done to ease it?
When from the Republican Candidates side we heard,



Do they think the American people are that stupid?

Don't forget about Ron Paul. He's running he would be a good candidate.

Don't forget about Ron Paul. He's running he would be a good candidate.

In remarks heavily focused on the economy, foreign policy, and American exceptionalism Friday, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney squarely challenged the competence and the authenticity of the man he’d like to replace in the White House.

The speech to the CPAC conservative conference -- the same group to whom he conceded the presidential primary race three years ago -- was primarily an assault on what he described as President Barack Obama’s fickle and hesitant strategy for solving the nation’s economic problems.

Romney received a mostly polite – but also sometimes enthusiastic – response from the thousands of conservative activists in the audience. The biggest sustained applause he received was when he delivered this criticism of the president: “It’s going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work. It’s going to take a new president.”

The former Bain & Company CEO, whose business credentials have served as the linchpin of his case for the presidency, blamed the Obama presidency for the nation’s nine percent unemployment rate.

“President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this president throughout history,” he said.

But polls have consistently said that the public largely blames the previous Republican administration more than the current White House for the state of the economy.

Also in his speech, Romney accused Obama of fashioning a new pro-business facade without an actual understanding of how business works, even implying that the president plagiarized his pro-growth rhetoric from Romney’s CPAC speech last year.

“The president is trying to show that he finally gets it—that he really isn’t a liberal after all. But his idea of conservative economic policy is to invite some corporate CEO’s to the White House for an evening of table-talk,” he said. “I’m sorry, Mr. President, but that’s not a policy, it’s a dinner party.”

“If I decide to run for president,” he added, pausing for a boisterous moment of encouragement from the crowd, “it won’t take me two years to wake up to the job crisis threatening America. And I won’t be asking Tim Geithner how the economy works—or Larry Summers how to start a business.”

And he tied free market ideals and capitalism to the notion of American exceptionalism – an ideal that Republicans often declare to be uncomfortable and unfamiliar to the current commander-in-chief.

"We believe in freedom, in opportunity. We believe in free enterprise and capitalism. We believe in the American dream. And we believe that the principles that made America the leader of the world today are the very principles that will keep America the leader of the world tomorrow.”

Early in his remarks, Romney also took shots at the White House’s diplomatic dealings and foreign policy strategy, although he avoided specific references to the uncertainty rocking Egypt. He slammed Obama as unsteady and incoherent in his handling of the New START nuclear arms treaty with Russia, the conflict between North and South Korea, and the uprising in Iran.

"An uncertain world has been made more dangerous by the lack of clear direction from a weak president," he said, later adding that he hopes the president will someday "finally be able to construct a foreign policy, any foreign policy."

The one thing missing from Romney's speech: any mention of the "ObamaCare" health-reform law particularly despised by this CPAC audience. Romney, so far, has struggled to make a solid argument against the president's health care law, which has many similarities to the law Romney championed during his tenure as governor of Massachusetts.


http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/11/6033510-romney-its-going-to-take-a-new-president

Obama wanted a public option.

We got we got because of the party of no!

We were lucky to get anything at all.

Ron Paul has never received more than 2% in any vote.
He is too extreme.

I hope they run ROMNEY for President.

I can't wait to see him get ripped apart for his religion. The way they went after President Obama calling him a Muslim. And don't forget the videos of his pastor Jerimiah Wright.

Take a look at Romney's religion...(same as Glenn Beck's) - Mormon.
They believe Joseph Smith was a prophet and wrote the book of Mormon. He took a MAGIC HAT and placed some magic SEER STONES called the Urim & Thummim in the hat and was able to translate some golden tablets that he found under a rock in New York state.

I am not making any of this up. I read the book.

I can't wait!!!!

I hope they run ROMNEY for President.

I can't wait to see him get ripped apart for his religion. The way they went after President Obama calling him a Muslim. And don't forget the videos of his pastor Jerimiah Wright.

Take a look at Romney's religion...(same as Glenn Beck's) - Mormon.
They believe Joseph Smith was a prophet and wrote the book of Mormon. He took a MAGIC HAT and placed some magic SEER STONES called the Urim & Thummim in the hat and was able to translate some golden tablets that he found under a rock in New York state.

I am not making any of this up. I read the book.

I can't wait!!!!

Yep...

Magic hat.

as opposed to a magic ark that was carried around by the Israelites that was supposed to contain the covenant of god and have the power to defeat all enemies...

Or the magic man that is supposed to descend from the sky and save all christians.