Under Barack Obama, brass-knuckled Chicago politics has pervaded the entire United States government. Now today comes word that the president's kneecapping tactics are in play even at the Office of Management and Budget, a relatively nonpartisan agency responsible for crafting the U.S. budget.
According to Office of Personnel Management Inspector General Patrick McFarland, on January 4, an official from the OPM was on the phone with a high-ranking OMB official. The OPM has the right to bring complaints and concerns about the budget to Congress. The official from the OMB warned the official from the OPM that, if he went to Congress about the 2011 budget, the OMB would "make life miserable" for the OPM. A House committee is now investigating the matter.
One can only imagine what sort of nefariousness in the president's 2011 budget has the OMB so worried.
Is there any department or agency that is safe from the president's Chicago brand of politics?
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