Who would have thunk it?

Google and the Obama administration looking for more ways to manipulate and censor information to the public?

Ways to make sure that only pro-Obama and pro-Democrat sites score highest in searches?

Helping scrub their archives of anything that might be remotely paint Obama in a bad light?

Say it ain’t so, Michelle O!

From NLPC.org

Recent email communication between White House Deputy Chief Technology Officer Andrew McLaughlin, who is Google’s former head of Global Public Policy, and multiple outside individuals raise new questions about the official’s alleged circumvention of federal ethics and recordkeeping rules.

McLaughlin’s communications with Google officials and others about issues that directly benefit the company appears to be more extensive than indicated by a May White House report, which resulted in an official reprimand of Mr. McLaughlin. Click here for a 12-page pdf of the McLaughlin emails.

Administration rules expressly prohibit former lobbyist company officials like McLaughlin from involving themselves in federal policies that materially impact their former employer. But the new emails, which NLPC obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, show a continued pattern in which Mr. McLaughlin communicates with another apparent Google lobbyist, the leader of a Google-funded organization that lobbies in support of Google’s primary area of federal interest, and the head of a nonprofit that works closely with Google lobbyists.

The topics in the email communication involve many of Google’s highest priority lobbying issues, including FTC rules on online privacy; Administration broadband policy, including Net neutrality; and intellectual property rules.

Just as unions such as the SEIU and the UAW are the sops and enforcers of Obama’s Marxist philosophy on the manufacturing side, Google, long a Democrat cash cow and shill, will of course, control the online information infrastructure if the administration has it’s way.

According to NLPC, the emails reveal, among other things:

Over a two-week period in February 2010, McLaughlin exchanged numerous emails with Free Press director Ben Scott, another prominent advocate for Net neutrality who has coordinated policy strategy with Google and attended joint meetings with Google at the FCC and White House on numerous occasions. They agreed to meet outside the White House at a nearby coffee shop to discuss Internet policy.

So, more footsie playing and back-room dealing with the “most transparent administration in history.” Just one more reason I will be glad to see the day that Google goes down the toilet. Which will be probably be sooner rather than later. Their base product has always been inferior, their applications well behind the times and in many cases, broken. (just try putting together a basic HTML mail and having GMail actually render it properly. GMail is stuck in 1996 technology).

Do yourself a favor and use a less tainted search engine like Bing or a more thorough and non-political one like DuckDuckGo.

Google needs to go down the way Microsoft did in the late 90′s. They are the biggest impediment to true innovation in today’s web, outside of the federal government themselves.

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Well, since this regime is back in “fairness” mode, I think the first place we can apply this “fairness” is at every trial lawyer’s office and making sure that every woman who works at one is making the same as every plastic-haired, oil-dripping, reptilian John Edwards wannabe.

From USA Today via Doug Powers:

WASHINGTON — President Obama plans to press Congress today to pass pay-equity legislation that would make it easier for women to sue employers who pay them less than their male counterparts, the White House said Monday.

“Women deserve equal pay,” White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said in an interview, citing government statistics that show women earn 77 cents for every dollar men earn. “It’s a very fundamental right.”

Obama will announce his support for the Paycheck Fairness Act, a bill that has languished in Congress for several years. In 2007, President Bush warned he would veto the bill, and it has been stalled by opposition from some Republicans and business groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

This is doubly hysterical as it was the Obama campaign that paid their female staffers less then their male staffers, while the McCain campaign paid their women staffers between $1.04-$1.08 for every $1 that the male staffers were paid. Surely there must have been money leftover from the nearly $1 billion in illegal Obama campaign donations that could have been spared for the females on his campaign staff? (waiting for the canned uncontrollable laughter)

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That is what now, oh-for three? This White House cannot get out it’s own way. (or ours)

From Yahoo News: (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin)

A U.S. appeals court on Thursday rejected the Obama administration’s request to put on hold a ruling that lifted a temporary moratorium on deepwater drilling in the wake of the BP Plc oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The ruling is a setback for the White House which had sought to suspend deepwater drilling of new wells for six months while it investigated the cause of the April 20 explosion aboard the Transocean Ltd. rig and adopt new stricter safety regulations.

…The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, based in New Orleans, ruled about 90 minutes after hearing arguments over the administration’s request to put on hold a lower court ruling that lifted the six-month moratorium.

Of course, that will not stop the administration and tools like Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar from cooking up yet another witch’s brew of legal briefs and EnviroMarxist nonsense to bother the court again with:

Its decision will likely prompt the Interior Department to quickly issue a revised moratorium order on deepwater drilling below 500 feet to address concerns raised by the federal courts.

Since the Dodd/Frank Wall Street Hostile Takeover bill wants to impose quotas on everything under the sun, we might as well start extending that to those lawyers and firms that work on such useless, job and animal killing nonsense.

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If there is one thing this administration and and its KY-Jelly Congress thrives on, it is hiding in the shadows. From MengeleCare to turning over virtually all energy policy-making to the EPA, the last thing they ever want is open debate.

The recess appointment of Dr. Don Berwick to head the Medicare and Medicaid programs proves this point once again.

From FOX News: (Hat Tip – Michelle Malkin)

President Obama intends to bypass Congress and appoint Dr. Donald Berwick to head Medicare and Medicaid, the White House announced Tuesday — filling the job while Congress is in recess to get around Republican opposition that threatened to derail Berwick’s confirmation.

Berwick’s supporters say he is the right man in the right place at the right time. But his opponents have lined up against him. They say that while he may be a the highly respected doctor, he is also an outspoken proponent of the British health care system, which they say is all wrong for Americans.

“This recess appointment is an insult to the American people,” Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said Tuesday night. “Dr. Berwick is a self-professed supporter of rationing health care, and he won’t even have to explain his views to the American people in a Congressional hearing.”

…By appointing Berwick now, while Congress is out of session for the July 4 holiday break, Berwick can assume the post of administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services without undergoing confirmation hearings in the Senate. Democrats want to avoid a nasty confirmation fight that could reopen the health care debate. Berwick was nominated in April but no confirmation hearing had been scheduled.

This Berwick character become mildly famous for his mastubatory embrace of Soviet-style Bread line health care policy and saved a special oral orgasm for Old Blighty, whose health care ranks just above Cuba’s for efficiency and money-making for the local mortician.

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While the Blago trial is very important as far as the subject of Team Obama’s interference and possible felonious behavior in terms trying to get their man or woman a bought-off Senate seat, that does not mean it is not also a laugh riot.

Below is audio from a phone call that features Blago and an unamed person on the other end of the line. Blago pretty much goes apeshit on this call, cursing like a drunken Kennedy, while running down Obama, Valerie Jarret and lamenting his being “stuck” as governor of IL.

Courtesy FOX News via Doug Powers:

Blago is the gift that keeps on giving.

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When it comes to pointing fingers and casting blame, the Democrats are the All-Pros.

When it comes to avoiding responsibility for their own actions and casting those same aspersions onto their political opponents, the Democrats are the Super Bowl champions.

And when it comes to stark and sheer hypocrisy. the Democrats are the Hall of Fame class.

While trotting out the lame, half-dead dog that will not hunt, “The Republicans are for big oil” talking point, they, as always, hide their own long-standing connections and campaign largesse that they benefit from immensely.

From The Washington Post: (Hat Tip: Mark Levin Show)

Companies involved in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are hiring a bevy of high-priced Washington lobbyists and consultants to help them weather the crisis, as investigations heat up and calls for policy changes intensify. BP, which has garnered the bulk of public attention and contempt for the spill, has assembled a formidable team of Democrats for its Washington lobbying, legal and public-relations offensive. There is Tony Podesta, who heads one of the District’s leading lobbying firms; legal adviser Jamie Gorelick, a top Justice Department official in the Clinton administration now at the law firm WilmerHale; Hilary Rosen, a former recording-industry lobbyist who heads the Washington office of the Brunswick Group, a public-relations consultancy; and Michael S. Berman of the Duberstein Group, who was a longtime aide to former vice president Walter F. Mondale before becoming a lobbyist. Gorelick, who also served as a member of the 9/11 Commission, proved critical in coaching the company during tense negotiations with President Obama over the creation of a $20 billion escrow fund for spill damages, according to several sources close to the talks. White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that the administration “forced” BP to set up the fund and to intensify its efforts to contain the spill.

A literal Who’s Who of Democrat Hacks, Grafters and assorted Leftists who have benefited plenty both at BP’s and the American taxpayer’s expense. Especially Gorelick, who managed to not only cause a major intelligence failure that helped lay the groundwork for 9/11, but also walked away with tens of millions of taxpayer dollars after helping Fannie Mae cook their books and then leaving the taxpayer holding the bag for hundreds of billions in “toxic loans”.

Of course, one big question is what is Gorelick’s and the others mentioned above take? After all, it is $20 billion just for starters. I am sure Gore and his cadre of Carbon Credit Commissars will have their snouts thrust into this trough soon enough.

Amazing how much control a $1 million campaign contribution can buy.

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Bailouts. Bankruptcies. Boondoggles. One of the major hallmarks of this administration.

Are you sick of them? Well, too bad, for here comes another one. One that is laden with political incest and ideological inbreeding that would make a Deliverance family member blanch.

From Michelle Malkin’s weekly column:

– ShoreBank co-founder Jan Piercy was a Wellesley College roommate of Hillary Clinton’s, who has long supported the bank along with former president Bill Clinton.

– Former ShoreBank Vice Chairman Bob Nash worked for Mrs. Clinton’s presidential bid as deputy campaign manager. Board of Directors member Howard Stanback is a Hyde Park neighborhood pal of President Obama, who served with Stanback on the board of the radical Woods Fund (where Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers also sat).

– White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett served on the board of Chicago Metropolis 2020 with ShoreBank Director Adele Simmons, former president of the liberal MacArthur Foundation, where she focused on “climate change” and “global governance” issues.

– The bank and its employees donated some $12,000 to the Obama 2008 presidential campaign, and co-founder Mary Houghton reportedly gave advice to Obama’s late mother about small business lending issues.

So, the American taxpayer now has to cough up more money for a Obama/Clinton (and Gore is probably in there as well, since this “bank” is big on “green” projects) money laundering front. Tony Soprano looks like a 5 year-old stealing a Baby Ruth in the local 7-11 compared to these Sticky Fingered robber barons. What next? A bailout for the hand sanitizers and toilet paper rolls in the Goldman Sachs throne rooms?

As Michelle so properly puts it:

In other words: ShoreBank is too politically connected to fail.

And the American worker (those that still actually have a job, that is) are too tapped out to support any more outrages like this.

I can see November from my checkbook.

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