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By Jennifer Loven
Associated Press
POSTED: 11:04 a.m. EST, Jan 07, 2009
WASHINGTON: President-elect Barack Obama named Nancy Killefer as his administration's chief performance officer today, creating a new White House position as part of an effort to eliminate government waste and improve efficiency.
''We can no longer afford to sustain the old ways when we know there are new and more efficient ways to getting the job done,'' Obama said at a news conference at his transition headquarters.
The president-elect promised to scour the federal budget to eliminate what doesn't work and improve what does to ''put government on the side of taxpayers and everyday Americans.''
Killefer, a director of a management consulting firm who previously served as an assistant secretary of the treasury under President Bill Clinton, will work with federal agencies to set performance standards and hold agency managers accountable for progress.
Obama pledged during the campaign to form a White House SWAT team of sorts — led by a chief performance officer who would report directly to him — to work with agency leaders and the White House budget office to improve federal programs and services.
Yet, even as he announced the post that's also aimed at spending taxpayer money more efficiently, Obama was spending his first week in Washington promoting his mammoth economic stimulus plan that could total as much as $775 billion over two years — much of the new spending aimed at creating jobs and stoking the troubled economy.
WASHINGTON: President-elect Barack Obama named Nancy Killefer as his administration's chief performance officer today, creating a new White House position as part of an effort to eliminate government waste and improve efficiency.
''We can no longer afford to sustain the old ways when we know there are new and more efficient ways to getting the job done,'' Obama said at a news conference at his transition headquarters.
The president-elect promised to scour the federal budget to eliminate what doesn't work and improve what does to ''put government on the side of taxpayers and everyday Americans.''
Killefer, a director of a management consulting firm who previously served as an assistant secretary of the treasury under President Bill Clinton, will work with federal agencies to set performance standards and hold agency managers accountable for progress.
Obama pledged during the campaign to form a White House SWAT team of sorts — led by a chief performance officer who would report directly to him — to work with agency leaders and the White House budget office to improve federal programs and services.
Yet, even as he announced the post that's also aimed at spending taxpayer money more efficiently, Obama was spending his first week in Washington promoting his mammoth economic stimulus plan that could total as much as $775 billion over two years — much of the new spending aimed at creating jobs and stoking the troubled economy.
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Posted 01:13 PM, 01/07/2009
AGain he does it, a previous Clinton person put in a position again. Where is the CHANGE he promised!?
Posted 01:25 PM, 01/07/2009
I think it's a change from the last 8 years!
Posted 09:21 AM, 01/08/2009
Limbaugh continued his broadside against progressive hypocrisy on matters of race: “They are compassionate and feeling, and they love minorities and they want minorities to excel -- except, except when the minorities get too uppity. And then it’s time to revert to Bull Connor, or, in this case, Lester Maddox.
“What’s the difference in dingy Harry and Lester Maddox? George Wallace? Remember, all these great segregationists of the past are Democrats. It’s in the blood, and it’s showing up on the steps of the United States Senate,” Limbaugh said.
Lester Maddox is the late Georgia governor who defended states’ rights and was considered an advocate for segregation during the Civil Rights era. Bull Connor was the public safety commissioner of Birmingham, Ala., who used fire hoses to attack civil-rights marchers. Wallace, a former governor of Alabama, was an opponent of desegregation who ran for the presidency on four occasions.
Limbaugh said that Democrats, by their treatment of Burris, are “in the process of delegitimizing themselves.”
Embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich appointed Burris to fill the seat vacated by Obama. Limbaugh warned Democrats are on “thin Constitutional ice” in their refusal to accept Burris as a member of the Senate.
Posted 10:03 AM, 01/08/2009
I don't think it's racist to question Burris' credintials and legitimacy in taking his Senate seat. At least they're using common sense. He was appointed to a seat by a man who previously tried to sell it. In fact, I think Blago picked a black man in order to cause such an uproar. You don't seat someone to a Senate seat just to have an African American there...
I goes both ways. Sure, Dems were the party of racism in the past, but that seemed to switch with the New Deal and finalized with the Civil Rights Act accompanied with the Southern Strategy of the Repubs.
The Repubs/conservatives have had quite a switch themselves. Once the party of Abraham Lincolin and against slavery....well, look at them now. Yelling "kill him" at rallies and mocking people helping out in their community. Nice.
Posted 11:36 AM, 01/08/2009
Nice going Obamination! Bigger government and a larger payroll!
