Pharma-quiddick? Axelrod's connections "don't pass the smell test"
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Following up on his report last night, Sean Hannity brought on commentators S. E. Cupp and Kimberly Guilfoyle to discuss accusations being leveled at senior Barack Obama advisor David Axelrod.
As Guilfoyle put it, “Wake up, America. This does not pass the smell test” — “this” being the fact that Axelrod’s former P.R. firm is producing commercials for special-interest groups that stand to gain if “Obamacare” legislation is passed.
The FOX News panel praised talk radio host (and attorney) Hugh Hewitt for writing a definitive column about this conflict of interest scandal-in-the-making. As Hewitt explained:
Most of the commentary on David Axelrod’s contract with his former political campaign and consulting firm has missed the crucial point. People’s opinions of the appropriateness of the deal under which Axelrod will be paid two million dollars over the next many years don’t matter even in the world of public opinion because few people will know Mr. Axelrod’s name or care that he made an arrangement to continue to receive funds from his former firm while living on his otherwise much-reduced salary as a senior advisor to President Obama.
The deal itself may well be completely legal, if a little starting, to outsiders. What matters is whether Mr. Axelrod knowingly or unknowingly broke the law in striking the deal with his former firm and then participating in negotiations with people or entities that directly or indirectly sent cash to his former firm to produce and air ads pushing the president’s health care agenda.
(…) Mr. Axelrod’s son works at his old firm. A full inspection of the situation will require disclosure of his compensation arrangement as well as his father’s and whether or not the son has any financial obligations to the father.
“If this was a past administration,” Cupp observed, “the Democrats would already be calling for a Special Prosecutor” to investigate any improprieties. Indeed, it’s doubtful the name of Axelrod’s ASK Public Strategies will become the next “Haliburton” or “Watergate,” unless the rest of the media — beyond FOX News — decide to start doing their job.
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It only makes sense. The whole Obama administration is on drugs. Why not get them free.
Lets all WE WEEd UP.
Corporatism conjoined to Statism. Big suprise. The Pharma companies are giving in. They too want a government job.
Most of these Czars, cabinate ministers or most Obama appointeee’s are still tax dodging. Why should they quit while at the top of the heap? So a little strong arm, a few calls & the whole industry falls to there drumbeat. Best of all they get funds.
JMO
This administration is revving up to be one of the most corrupt on record. We’ve got the Axelrod situation — which is a total outrage. People have been sent to jail for arrangements like this.
We have the CIO that he appointed, that doesn’t have the Master’s degree he claims to have earned.
And we’ve got at least three top members of the administration that failed to pay their taxes.
When are the American people going to wake up and demand a clean administration?
Fed Up.
This Obama administration is the most corrupt in the history of the U.S.A.
Needed to stop the corruption: resignation or impeachment
I find myself perpetually asking the question WHY does nobody call them on this at an official level? Here we have calls for investigation of Bush era CIA interrogation techniques, popping up again–yet there is no official call for an investigation of this? I don’t get it. Are the Republicans all asleep? Is there nobody in Congress who can have his voice heard, that is not a lib? Have we learned nothing from the left’s techniques? Is talk radio the only place where a voice can be heard? Feels like the proverbial ‘if a tree falls in the forest, and nobody hears’ bit! So effective, the conspiracy between the Left and the media. Emasculate the opposition, create confusion on your plans to obfuscate real intentions, and then (metaphorically) rape the country.