Cronyism – Take a Good Look at Those at the Top
This is an excerpt from an email I received from my wife. I should preface this post with the fact that she absolutely abhors politics, policy-type current events or anything closely resembling these.
PS: Did you hear that the government was overthrown in Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet republic?
A lady named Roza Otunbayeva declared herself the country's interim leader.
She is the head of the Social Democratic Party and a member of it's parliament. She was a foreign minister for 2 years under the former president.
She quit to protest the former president's appointing of one of his brothers as ambassador.
Kurmanbek Bakiev was the former president there (who was over-thrown).
It was mostly done because of the increases in fuel and electricity rates after he sold public utilities - to companies his friends owned. (Bad boy).
That former president's son owned television stations, banks and mobile services. The people took back those companies. (Probably just in time. Wow.)
There's an airbase that is important to the supply line to the US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, nearby. (So I guess the US has reason to be concerned about all of this.)
So we need to take a look at the top people in the Administration. What are their qualifications? Who vetted these people? Google: Cass Sunstein, Valerie Jarrett, Van Jones, Anita Dunn. You can also research a little further into Rahm Emanuel (Chief of Staff), David Axelrod (Senior Advisor) and a host of others who came up through "The Chicago Way".
