THE UNDER THE BUS BEAT - AT 9:45 A.M. ET:  Stories are circulating in Washington that the Obama administration is buying a second bus to throw some of its appointees under.  There's just not enough room under the first one, where one can find the Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, Grandma, Van Jones and assorted other inconveniences.

And, indeed, another candidate is ready to be thrown under the rear axle.  From The Politico:

The National Endowment for the Arts said Thursday that its communications director, Yosi Sergant, has resigned...

...Sergant, who helped make artist Shepard Fairey's "Hope" image ubiquitous as an organizer of Obama campaign support from artists, had seemed to mix the NEA's work -- essentially non-partisan politics -- with the administration's legislative agenda on a conference call reported on by Andrew Breitbart's new conservative site, Big Government.

"I would encourage you to pick something, whether it’s health care, education, the environment, you know, there’s four key areas that the corporation has identified as the areas of service," Sergant told artists on the call, which he reportedly invited some of them to attend. "My ask would be to apply artistic, you know, your artistic creative communities utilities and bring them to the table," he said.

A job in some Latin American dictatorship might be appropriate for Sergant. 

But wait - there's still one more candidate for the bus throw.  From Fox News:

President Obama's "safe schools czar" is a former schoolteacher who has advocated promoting homosexuality in schools, written about his past drug abuse, expressed his contempt for religion and detailed an incident in which he did not report an underage student who told him he was having sex with older men.

Conservatives are up in arms about the appointment of Kevin Jennings, Obama's director of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, saying he is too radical for the job.

COMMENT:  Yeah, I would think so.  I wouldn't want this guy hanging around my kids. 

We are a nation of 305 million people.  You'd think, in a country that size, the Obamans could have found someone else.  The number of strange appointments to this administration should cause us to worry about the people doing the appointing, and the administrative abilities of the man at the top.

September 25, 2009