21 Jan 2009 ... The executive order on ethics I will sign shortly represents a clean break from business as usual. As of today, lobbyists will be subject to stricter limits than under any -- under any other administration in history.

If you are a lobbyist entering my administration, you will not be able to work on matters you lobbied on, or in the agencies you lobbied during the previous two years. When you leave government, you will not be able to lobby my administration for as long as I am president.

Two days later, back to business as usual:

23 Jan 2009 ... The Obama administration has waived its ethics rules to allow William Lynn to serve as the deputy secretary of Defense.


So now we have two tax dodgers and a lobbyist in the Obama administration.

How long before the Mudcat Awakemimg?