If you have your way, this is who Obama will be working with next:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a64ZIkmVPv_w

In 1995, Boehner handed out campaign checks from the tobacco industry to members on the House floor at a time when lawmakers were considering eliminating a tobacco subsidy.

The top donor to Boehner's leadership PAC in 2003-2004 was SLM Corp., the Reston, Virginia-based student-loan company better known as Sallie Mae. SLM contributed $65,170 to Boehner's Freedom Project, more than twice as much as the second-biggest donor, New York-based Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The money came as the House Education and Workforce Committee, which Boehner chairs, prepared to write new legislation governing student loans.

DeLay's Jan. 7 decision to permanently relinquish his leadership post came after former aides were mentioned in a plea-bargain agreement with Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff. House Republicans, who will hold a new vote the week of Jan. 30, have pledged to address ethics issues, including a possible overhaul of lobbying rules.

Blunt, who was tapped by then-House Republican Whip DeLay in 1999 to be his chief deputy, has been acting majority leader since Texan DeLay stepped down after being indicted in September on unrelated money-laundering charges in Austin.

Both men's political action committees employ Jim Ellis, who was indicted along with DeLay. DeLay's PAC gave Blunt's committee a $150,000 donation in 2000, and Blunt's PAC gave $10,000 to DeLay's non-profit foundation that same year. Both lawmakers' PACs have employed Alexander Strategy Group, a Georgetown-based firm whose partners include former Abramoff and DeLay associates.

But America is wise. Its takes time to fix a mess that took nearly a decade to create and its clear that those folks (above) did not usher America in a right direction as they took our surplus and prosperous country into serious structural, depression-trending territory.

Your "surplus" never actually existed. It was merely a projection based on the then-current spending models.

9/11 changed all that.

You accused him of not being born in American, called him a Muslim and a socialist. You want to take back America as though it had been invaded by outside forces (who by the way gave you a tax cut). It's about time he reacted to you.

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I never questioned his citizenship, faith, or political ideology

yet he called me that also.

So how is that justified?

Civil service prevents political hiring and firing. The union membership to which you refer is at the state and local levels.