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Congress to set up its own oil commission spill investigation commission and this is a direct rebuke to president obama whose own presidential oil commission has been stacked with activists and anti-oil environmentalists, so if congress gets his way, we ll have engineers looking at this and might have answers. paul: all right. jason. a miss for naacp suggesting that the tea party movement is racist and any that honors sharpton and jesse jackson and louis farrakhan has no business casting stones. paul: john. a miss to the state and government officials who didn t pay any attention to the evidence that felons voted illegally in the senate election that al franken won by 300 votes. it looked to as many as a thousand felons may have voted illegally and enough to make up the difference. paul: do you think that the naacp is acting politically here? of course they are. yes, they are, and it s a shame ....
the obama white house. welcome to the journal editorial report, i m paul gigot. the white house s so-called summer of recovery rolled on this week and the latest claim it s 862 billion dollars of economic stimulus saved or created 3 million jobs and polls show that voters are far from convinced and business owners facing hundreds of new rules in the financial reform bill that passed this week aren t buying what the administration is selling either. at the u.s. chamber of commerce s job summit wednesday. chamber president tom donahue took on the obama white house for what he sees as its job killing policies. instead of continuing their partnership with the business community, and embarrassing proven ideas for job creation, they attacked and demonized deindustries, they embarked on a cost of rapid government expansion, major tax increases and suffocating regulations. going well beyond what has been done to keep the economy out of a depression. joining the panel this week, ....
the prosecution rested its case this week in the federal corruption trial of former illinois governor rod blagojevich. not without some testimony that costs the obama white house in an unflattering light. washington columnist kim strasseline and john have been following the trial and have some of the details. so, john, this is in part a trial whether former governor blagojevich was trying to sell his senate seat and the president and his aides said he had no interest in figuring out and influencing who followed obama in that senate seat. what s the trial telling us, is that right. two witnesses sworn under oath they did get messages one from president obama and one from rahm emanuel. paul: oh. yes, that the president wanted valerie jarrett and was pushing valerie jarrett. these were not calls to blagojevich himself, but they ....
Were to outsiders. absolutely. paul: who did the president call. the president called the head of the service employees international union, a big obama backer in illinois. emanuel called john wyman, a former chief of staff for of blagojevich when he was in congress. paul: what does it tell us about the white house report at the time by former white house counsel greg craig that there was no participation in trying to influence the selection of that seat? what tells us, is that report is probably technically accurate. we know that it was very careful to say that the president-elect and that mr. manual, no one had a lot of direct contact with mr. blagojevich or his staff. but it was not the whole truth. that s the whole point, it s not the whole truth and this is stunning coming this report got put out a few weeks or not long after the president was elected on a hope and change and reform message ....
So what? everybody knows presidents care who succeeds them in the senate even if they dissemble or tell the whole story. lbj, jfk, probably cared. joe biden tried to get his son to win to have him succeed in the senate before it began to look like he would lose if he ran. why should we care? probably no crime here, nobody suggested that. it s just that this administration, first of all, they ran on reform, ran on a new kind of politics and suggests they re playing the old politics. second problem for them, as john said, it makes them look very chicago, puts them back in the limelight in the midst of a trial that s just ugly, so it has the worst sort of corruption elements and questions about the way that chicago politics work. the other thing, it puts a new perspective some of the other things that this administration has done and if you look, there has been a big scandal over this question of whether or not the white house was trying to offer jobs to joe cesestek. ....