Presidential Slush Fund
Your tax dollars—yours!—at work:
Nearly $6 million in stimulus money was paid to two firms run by Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton’s pollster in 2008.
Federal records show that $5.97 million from the $787 billion stimulus helped preserve three jobs at Burson-Marsteller, the global public-relations and communications firm headed by Penn.
Burson-Marsteller won the contract to work on a public-relations campaign to advertise the national switch from analog to digital television. Nearly $2.8 million of the contract was issued to Penn’s polling firm, Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, according to federal records.
Rush had this story, too, but he remembered in addition that Hillary’s concession in the primaries hinged on Obama paying off her campaign debts. How can we not draw our own conclusions, especially when, as Ed Morrissey puts it:
We’ve pulled capital out of the hands of people who actually create jobs, and handed it to people like Mark Penn, who saved three jobs at a taxpayer cost of $2 million per job.
And President Obama does so for the same reason a dog tongues his testicles: because he can.