Obama's Mob Cabinet

November 18, 2008

OBAMA LEGITIMIZES CRIME FAMILY

FOXNEWS.COM -- FoxNews is reporting that Obama will recycle Clinton's cronies when appointing cabinet members.  One list of possibilities for Secretary of the Treasury includes 1) Timothy Geithner, president of Federal Reserve Bank of New York; 2) Paul Volcker, Chairman of the Former Federal Reserve; and 3) Lawrence Summers, former treasury secretary and one-time Harvard University president.  (See Possible Appointments)

Missing from this list is current Maine Governor John Baldacci.  Infamously known for his botched takeover of Vatican-owned Immobiliare, Baldacci moved to politics in order to "legitimize the family."

The former four-term Congressman now strikes headlines from his gubernatorial seat.  Baldacci made a sale of the state liquor license in 2003, which sold two-thirds of the state monopoly to a Wall Street firm: Lindsay, Goldberg & Bessemer.  The other third went to Massachusetts based Martignetti as represented by Larry Benoit, Baldacci's former chief of staff.  (The idea was spearheaded by Severin Belliveau, lobbyist for LGB.)

More recently in March of 2005, Baldacci apparently sold the state's powerball proceeds--an estimated $400 million over a period of ten years--for a $250 million lump sum.  The sum conveniently covered his annual deficit going into the 2006 election cycle.

His track record lends little encouragement for Americans living in fear of financial crisis and his own words enhance this concern.

When asked what his motto would be if given the reigns to America's economic policy, Baldacci said, "I call it selling the house to pay for the credit card."

Editor's Note:  Maine owes its debt to programs such as the infamous "give every seventh grader in the state a laptop that their trailer trash dad will use to surf the internet for adult material."  Former governor Angus King's brain child only cost a penance compared to his bank account, worth more than Maine's GDP--Baldacci renewed the Apple contract in mid-2006 for $41 million, mere weeks  before Apple's release of the Intel-based computers.  The Radish compares this to buying a Commodore 64 at full price the day before Nintendo came out.  (If you don't get the Godfather references, well, RadishBlog.com feels bad for you.)