While Obama's excellent pick to head the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department Justice, Dawn Johnsen, languishes in limbo on Capitol Hill with no insistent pushing on the administration's part, there is a batch of lamebrained Obama selections for senior administration positions that should never have been made.

Some of those are: Greg Craig, Rahm Emanuel, Tim Geithner and his ex-Wall Streeters at Treasury, Lawrence Summers, and Eric Holder who represent a woeful lack of positive change and a continuation of damaging inside Washington, revolving door, business as usual.

I've written about the questionable White House counsel, Greg Craig, before and wondered what in the hell Obama was thinking when choosing him.

White House counsel, Greg Craig, is rumored to be on his way out after a short stay.  Unfortunately, the rest of the above pseudo Democratic corporatists, mostly millionaires, aren't going with him.

Craig and and many others shouldn't have been hired in the first place, but President Obama is not very wise, whether deliberately or inadvertently, when it comes to chooseing some of his administration officials.

President Obama has packed his administration with Republican lite Clintonites and Republicans, including Bushites, which sends all the wrong signals and is the antithesis of his campaign promise of change.

Jason Leopold at Public Record has the info on the Craig kerfuffle: "Obama administration officials are engaged in talks that may result in White House Counsel Gregory Craig’s resignation, the Wall Street Journal reported early Tuesday.

"The Journal reported that Craig has had “a rocky tenure” over some national security issues that have become “political liabilities” for President Obama.

“These include the closure of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the release of Bush administration-era national-security documents, and efforts to find legal ways to indefinitely hold some detainees who can’t be put on trial,” the Journal reported, citing unnamed sources."

However, it was his inside Washington coziness with Karl Rove and other Bushites that should have been a flashing red light for any consideration of a place in the administration. 

Leopold writes: "Craig was also instrumental in working closely with Karl Rove’s attorney, Robert Luskin, and House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers and his staff that resulted in Bush’s former political adviser, Karl Rove, testifying before the panel behind closed doors about the firings of nine federal prosecutors in 2006 and the apparent political prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman. Craig also arranged a similar deal for former White House Counsel Harriet Miers.

"By urging Rove and the Judiciary Committee to reach a settlement, Obama’s Justice Department lawyers avoided going to federal court and taking a position on Bush’s broad claims of executive privilege, which the former president said extended beyond his presidency.

“ 'The President is very sympathetic to those who want to find out what happened,' Craig said in early March just as a deal to secure Rove and Miers’ testimony was reached. 'But he is also mindful as President of the United States not to do anything that would undermine or weaken the institution of the presidency. So, for that reason, he is urging both sides of this to settle.' "