Google Chairman Eric “Schmidt, 57, was offered the job of Treasury or Commerce Secretary or a new ‘Secretary of Business’ slot, according to the Washington Examiner,” Jennifer O’Mahony reports for The Telegraph.
“Mr Schmidt’s rebuttal was swift, however, as he told the Wall Street Journal in an interview yesterday: ‘I said last time and I’ve said again that Google is my home. I have no interest in working for the federal government,'” O’Mahony reports. “Mr Schmidt played in a key role in the re-election of President Barack Obama last month, helping to oversee Google’s $700,000 donation to his campaign.”
O’Mahony reports, “Mr Schmidt also helped to promote Obama’s jobs bill in 2011 when the President asked Congress for a new round of stimulus spending and was faced with deadlock after Republicans rejected key elements of the plans.”
“The news comes as Anna Wintour, the Editor-in-Chief of US Vogue, was announced as a possible candidate for the post of US ambassador to the UK or France,” O’Mahony reports. “Wintour co-hosted a $40,000 a head event in June at actress Sarah Jessica Parker’s home, and in August hosted a Connecticut dinner that cost $35,800 per person at movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s house. By the end of the campaign she was one of Mr Obama’s top ten fundraisers.”
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Obama to reward Google’s Schmidt with Cabinet post? – December 5, 2012
First smart thing he’s done in ages.
Regular folks are so screwed for the future…
Nothing for a weasel to know in this cabinet?
Secretary of Commerce – Meh.
He’s holding out for the coveted Secretary of Weasels, Moles and Backstabbers.
Good call by Schmidt.
One recalls the time back in the early 1990s when the Clintons were seducing John Sculley for the DoC Secretary’s nomination itself, but the appointment went instead to DNC Chairman Ron Brown, who’s airplane smashed into a mountain in Croatia.
Or maybe one doesn’t recall that.
Sarah Jessica Parker could profitably lend her face to any big fundraiser for the next political horse race. Just sayin’
Does it make you feel clever to take a cheap shot at someone who never did a thing to you?
Well said. Thank you.
There are those who think otherwise:
“To those who have criticized the looks of Sarah Jessica Parker, I say neigh. If it would behoove you to have some common courtsey, you should stop making such unbridled remarks. It’s unfair to saddle her with the burden of ugliness. Someone needs to take the reins here and say, whoaaa, this is going too far. Why do we need to trot out these same cracks everytime her name comes up? If she were coming to my town, I’d definately pony up the cash to see her.” (Anon.)
eh. she’s a princess compared to Nancy Pelosi…that woman is uglier than the inside of a cat.
Schmidt makes far more as Google Chairman than he might as a cabinet member.
The following scares me:
““The news comes as Anna Wintour, the Editor-in-Chief of US Vogue, was announced as a possible candidate for the post of US ambassador to the UK or France,”
Ambassador to the UK is an IMPORTANT post, not an honoraria for a big donor. What is Obama thinking?
Obama is a fscking idiot. Welcome to reality. Finally.
Four more years! Four more short years!
Not short enough.
The heavy damage will be done easily in that time frame. The people who made poor choices in life hoisted OBummer to the top so they could continue their government free ride. The rest of us will do nothing but suffer for it. I guess the bright side is when the small businesses go under, and the owners and employees end up on public assistance too, then these newly impoverished will vote Democrat too next time so their freebees will continue. Clever way to keep expanding your voting base.
Consider the latest idiocy, reported just today. Despite Egypt’s shift from US ally to US-hating Islamist state, the US is going ahead with delivery of 20 F-16 fighter jets, funded by US taxpayers. (They were ordered back in 2010.)
Even under Jimmy Carter the US wasn’t that stupid. The F-16 goes back to the late 1970s, and few countries then were able to get it. One country slated to receive them was Iran, then a US ally under the Shah. When he was overthrown by the Islamic Revolution, the US cancelled plans to deliver the planes (already being manufactured) to Iran. Since for budgetary reasons the USAF couldn’t immediately absorb them, they were offered to Israel, which bought them.
What, you thought a Democrat was any less owned by the military industrial complex than a Republican would be?
Notice that even in your example, the corporation that made those fighters didn’t lose out. You think they would allow that to happen? Too much campaign finance money at stake.
I can’t recall things exactly, but if memory serves me right, the ambassadorship to “glamour” Euro destinations has been used in the past quite often to reward people who helped elect Presidents. In fact, I remember vaguely John F. Kennedy doing something like that.
Besides, I don’t think becoming Vogue Editor-in-Chief is within the reach of someone without the required level of mental and inter-personal capabilities.
John F. Kennedy’s after was the US Ambassador to the UK.
Supposed to be father not after.
She would be walking in the shoes of five previous US Presidents …
John Adams (1785–1788)
James Monroe (1803–1807)
John Quincy Adams (1815–1817)
Martin Van Buren (1831–1832)
James Buchanan (1853–1856)
… but they ain’t Jimmy Choo shoes.
What is Obama thinking?
Probably about the same thing as when he tossed the Department of State under the bus by giving to Hillary as a consolation prize. Who cares about the job she’s supposed to do, when there’s a momentary PR gain to be had?
-jcr
One less mole in the Whitehouse.
I’m not a democrat nor republican and never supported Obama.
That said, the “Washington Examiner” is NOT a newspaper, it’s essentially a blog that is just as reliable as Wikipedia. There’s no editors or fact checking. Might or might not be true. Wouldn’t surprise me either way.
Besides, it would make more sense to put someone from Goooooogle into the No Such Agency. The Treasury Department is passe in comparison.
Every President has used a lot of the Ambassadorships to reward political friends and donors. Most US embassies have a “Station Chief” (of the Covert Intervention Agency) that is often more powerful than the Ambassador.
I am not an expert but I am pretty sure that the NYT, with many fact checkers, gets most political stories wrong. The reason – it is not an actual newspaper with an objective of getting the news out, damn the consequences. Instead, it is a PR publication of the Democrat National Committee. To test this, research how many stories this “newspaper” did actually reporting on the story of the death of the American ambassador to Libya in the weeks right before the election. Ambassadors are not often found dead under strange circumstances, except when Democrats run things, yet this story was almost never reported on page 1. And the NYT accepted the administration stories as fact, with no skepticism, despite the fact the administration story was known by all to be a fabrication within a few days. Just where is that journalistic zeal for truth? Not at the NYT. But I can guarantee there is a lot more honest reporting at the Washington Examiner. By the way, one way of assessing the NYT is the bottom line. How is it doing financially? Is it making money? Is it appealing to a broad market, or just people who work for the DNC?
It does take a weasel to know ho to work with the people in Washington.
That said, why on earth would he take a job where he would have to take a big cut in pay and have to work really hard? (not to mention be accountable for his actions)
Who said he had to work hard and be accountable? Just follow his boss’ example.
But Dick Cheyney wouldn’t be his boss.
You tell them Scott. Obama is working hard all the time, except when he is golfing (200 times a year), at Martha’s Vineyard, vacationing at Vail, vacationing in Hawaii (for three weeks starting about now while the country heads over the cliff), or partying with JayZ and Beyonce, or with the home boys in Chicago in the men’s sauna. Other than those days, he is busy working – spending huge amounts of money and devising new taxes. It’s a dirty job, but someone has to do it.
The actual number of golf outings is a bit over 100 to date, which is still a record. He’s about to head off for an extended family vacation in Hawaii. Estimated cost to taxpayers: $4 million.
You mean like when Reagan spent 25 days at his ranch? I’m sure that was free for us.
George Bush racked up 1,020 days of vacation time during his 8 years. As of September 2012 Obama has taken 78.
Morons.
But whose Commerce Secretary would he have copied?
Two good things happened. He was smart to turn it down. The US is better off that he turned it down.
Wait now, if he made him Ambassador to China we could find out all their secrets…
I like crooks in my cabinet. Schmidt perfect, but he already tells me everything I want to know about all my subjects via Google intel.
I used Willy the rapist as my campaign puppet.
Amerikans like rapist very much, all women voted with their girl parts heheh, they like being raped, so kinky.
I like more being raped by guy, you know.
No all lean FORWARD!
The Obama government just proves that the government is up for sale. Obama and every other elected official is selling it off. Raise money for us and we’ll appoint you to a political office. Do us a favor and we’ll reward you by giving you a government post, job, contract or something of value and if there isn’t one available we’ll just create one for you.
This type of selling of our government needs to stop and needs to stop now. It all just shows how corrupt and badly managed our government has become.
A solution would be to limit all elected government officials from President to dog catcher to a single term. Also, make government jobs that are not elected, civil service jobs that require passing a new much harder civil service exam. Limit Elected officials to only being able to terminate civil service employees, with just cause and if any elected government official is found to have tried influence the civil service in anyway or fashion that official would be removed from office and prosecuted, this would include the President down to the dog catcher equally.
By doing these minor things the government would get smaller, more efficient, cost less, and all the political favors and selling of the government would be much harder and much less profitable.
Basically turning over the complete government every four years would be a positive thing and would prevent intrenchment of political professional politicians. It would also make it possible for someone to start, organize and build new political parties. Something that can’t really happen currently or will ever occur under the current system.
Hmm…waiting to hear what fund raiser Bruce Springsteen’s appointment will be. Gotta put “The Boss” in charge.
Send Wintour to Benghazi. They need a bit of upscale houte coutre culture over there. She’d fit right in.
101 Federal jobs added per day.
Call them “jobs” if you want but in reality they are an “expense” because the federal government has no money of its own except what it takes from a taxpayer who worked hard to make it.
( well, there actually are two new categories now: Printed and Borrowed)
73% of all the new “jobs” in the last 6 months have been government jobs. Expenses!
The only argument left is whether those “jobs” pay their own way. Based upon the history of the last 70 years, I very much doubt that more than 10% of them actually do.
phew!
imagine a world of Goo!
a world without any apples?!
this is probably the 1st instance humanity has to be thankful towards Eeich Schmidt – ironic but true.
so, thank you Schmidt, for refusing to corrupt our nation further, beyond that is, Google’s campaigning in politics!
Can’t believe First 2010, Then 2012 hasn’t chimed in on this. Guess he’s still licking his self-inflicted wounds.
And this is an Apple-related story because … ?
The man’s been off the Apple board for four years. Get over it.
Please don’t take this politically, but:
OMG the Obama administration is so incredibly tech illiterate.
(See how I was nice to the Palin Cult and didn’t say ‘TechTardy!’ I’m being a good boy!) 😉