The author and columnist Victor Davis Hanson posted a withering post over at National Review Online's The Corner blog chronicling the novice president's ragged first two weeks in office. It isn't pretty, and VDH doesn't think it'll get prettier soon.
And this was before it was revealed that in 2008 alone CIA Director-designate Leon Panetta earned over $800,000 in speaking, director and consulting fees from firms with lobbying clients, failing banks that have been taken over by the government, oil companies and other assorted corporate interests. The Carlyle Group, the private equity firm with ties to the aerospace and defense industries, paid Panetta $28,000 in speaker fees. Liberals loved to beat up George H.W. Bush for his ties to Carlyle--we'll see if they give Panetta the same treatment.
No word yet on how much Panetta inadvertently forgot to pay in self-employment taxes on his winnings.
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