Report: Plouffe to step up White House advisory role

By GottaLaff

From the Dep't. of We Knew This Was Coming:

Former Obama campaign adviser David Plouffe will step up his role as an outside adviser to the White House, the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza reports Saturday.

Back to the future.

See previous post.

Another journalist joins the ObamAdministration

By GottaLaff

Talk about a promotion:

Roberta Baskin [...] a correspondent for "NOW with Bill Moyers" on PBS, CBS's "48 Hours" and ABC's "20/20," is joining the Dept. of Health & Human Services in an advisory role.

WaPo reports Baskin is "at least the 13th former journalist now doing work for the Obama administration [...]"

They should hire Glenn Beck, make him Secretary of the Dept. of Lunatics, and lock him in the White House basement until 2016.

New Obama advisor: “I’d pay money just to shine the brother’s shoes.”

By GottaLaff

Environmentalist Van Jones gets to realize a dream:

“I love Barack Obama,” environmental activist Van Jones was quoted as saying in a January profile in The New Yorker. “I’d pay money just to shine the brother’s shoes.” [...]

Jones will join the administration as “Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ).”

He'll work under CEQ Chairwoman Nancy Sutley.

According to Falkenstein: “His duties will include: helping to shape and implement job-generating climate policy; working to ensure equal protection and equal opportunity in the administration’s climate and energy proposals; and publicly advocating the administration’s environmental and energy agenda.”

As you can see, shoe-shining wasn't listed as one of his new duties.