The First Obamabomb?

It seems that the new President has found it not so easy to keep certain campaign promises. He has eased up on his exceptions to political appointees doing lobbying work apparently because it's too difficult to find people with political experience who have not lobbied at one time or other.

That may well be, given the state of things in the Capitol. Influence peddling has, is, and always will play some part in government activities. Personally, I really could care less about someone's lobbying. I am concerned, though, with the amount of slack that many seem willing to offer Mr. Obama. Almost everyone seems to be taking the approach that it isn't that big of a deal to back off from what was called for in the campaign.

Would they have given former President Bush such a grace period? Methinks not. But as that shall always be nothing more than conjecture I will content myself with the thought that, along with Tom Daschle's tax problems, we may have seen the first dropping of an Obamabomb. I highly expect it will not be the last.