Obama's Thirty Fourth Week in Office

Latest Additions to "The List"

"The List" for 9/19/2009

According to President Obama's budget projections, federal and state welfare spending will total $10.3 trillion over the next 10 years (FY 2009 to FY 2018). This spending will equal $250,000 for each person currently living in poverty in the U.S., or $1 million for a poor family of four.

The military is growing impatient with Obama.   The Obama administration is sending mixed signals about its objectives there and how many troops are needed to achieve them.  The conflicting messages are drawing increasing ire from U.S. commanders in Afghanistan and frustrating military leaders

The siege of Honduras continues. In the past few weeks, the United States has cut more than $30 million in non-humanitarian aid, suspended most visa services and sided with Venezuela, Cuba and other of Latin America's worst dictatorships in undermining democracy.

VIDEO: Chris Wallace says- White House full of crybabies

VIDEO: Obama either misrepresenting the facts in telling a personal story about his daughter Sasha having been "diagnosed with meningitis," or he simply did not know the facts.

Radicals attend White House Ramadan dinner.  Jameel Jaffer- ACLU attorney who is a darling of the far left who has litigated cases against the United States in support of terrorist rights.  Also, Denny LeBouf, the director of the ACLU's notorious John Adams project, putting CIA agents in danger, and Dr. Ingrid Mattson,  president of the Islamic Society of North America which was named was named as an unindicted co-conspirator of the Holyland Foundation for Relief and Developement.

"The list" for 9/18/2009"

VIDEO:First Lady Michelle Obama decreeing today that current U.S. Health Care is "unacceptable."

Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, plans to propose a new so-called net neutrality rule that could prevent telecommunications, cable and wireless companies from blocking Internet applications, according to sources at the agency.

Joe Biden says that a missile-defense system in Europe isn’t really necessary, because Iran isn’t much of a threat. 

Michelle Obama said that health care reform is a women's issue and called on female activists to support Obama's reform plan.

The interpretation of federal law should be made not by judges but by the beliefs and commitments of the U.S. president and those around him, according to President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein.

Obama administrations taxpayer funded "serve.org" is filtering activists to ACORN

The Polish accuse the US : "Betrayal! The U.S. sold us to Russia and stabbed us in the back," the Polish tabloid Fakt declared on its front page.  Polish President Lech Kaczynski said he was concerned that Obama's new strategy leaves Poland in a dangerous "gray zone" between Western Europe and the old Soviet sphere.

VIDEO: Obama wishes a happy Rosh Hashana to Jews... and then plays Rabbi by telling Jews to reject "the impulse to harden ourselves to others' suffering," -urging empathy and "compassion to those in need."

VIDEO: Obama calls for legalization for illegals and give them health care

Obama said this week that his health care plan won't cover illegal immigrants, but argued that's all the more reason to legalize them and ensure they eventually do get coverage.  He also staked out a position that anyone in the country legally should be covered - a major break with the 1996 welfare reform bill, which limited most federal public assistance programs only to citizens and longtime immigrants.

The list" for 9/17/2009"  

VIDEO: Obama as a candidate in 2007 being far more honest about the costs of changing America's Health Care System than he is now that he is President.

VIDEO: Obama's story in speech to congress was wrong

Obama's Ocean Policy Task Force — comprised of 24 officials from the U.S. Department of Interior to the U.S. Navy — recommended creating a new National Ocean Council with power to coordinate and hold accountable myriad federal agencies in conservation and marine planning efforts.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius' views on abortion: in an inteview "I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I had. And that’s what I did: I took an oath of office and I have taken an oath of office in this job and will uphold the law."

In her maiden Supreme Court appearance last week, Justice Sonia Sotomayor made a provocative comment that probed the foundations of corporate law.  Suggests that Corporations should be considered like people, not separate.

The House has voted in favor of the biggest overhaul of college aid programs since their creation in the 1960s — a bill to oust private lenders from the student loan business and put the government in charge. Thursday's vote was 253-171 in favor of a bill that fulfills an array of President Barack Obama's campaign promises,

U.S. Closes big military prison in Iraq.  Thousands of detainees to be released or transferred to Iraqi custody

The Obama administration is announcing $25 million in grants to states and health care systems to launch a national experiment on alternatives to medical malpractice lawsuits.

The Treasury Department said Thursday it will issue $112 billion in notes next week. A record $43 billion in 2-year notes will be sold on Tuesday,

NATO-led forces are investigating the death of four Marines in eastern Afghanistan after their commanders reportedly rejected requests for artillery fire in a battle with insurgents, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.

VIDEO: Obama promises missile shield to Israel against Iran in April; "So let me be clear: Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile activity poses a real threat, not just to the United States, but to Iran's neighbors and our allies. The Czech Republic and Poland have been courageous in agreeing to host a defense against these missiles. As long as the threat from Iran persists, we will go forward with a missile defense system that is cost-effective and proven. (Applause.) If the Iranian threat is eliminated, we will have a stronger basis for security, and the driving force for missile defense construction in Europe will be removed."

Obama dismayed America's allies in Europe and angered his political opponents at home today when he formally ditched plans to set up a missile defence shield in Poland and the Czech Republic.

Obama terminates missile defense shield in Europe

Anita Dunn's posting at www.whitehouse.gov

In a posting done without fanfare at www.whitehouse.gov, White House communications chief Anita Dunn responded Wednesday afternoon with a rebuttal to the attack on the Obama administration by some Republicans and commentators--Glenn Beck one of them--on the appointments of "czars"--high level advisors who did not face Senate confirmation.

The Justice Department is investigating whether former Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton illegally used her position to benefit Royal Dutch Shell PLC, the company that later hired her, according to officials in federal law enforcement and the Interior Department.

The list" for 9/16/2009"

It is "desirable" to redistribute America's wealth to poorer nations, argued Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein.

U.S. President Barack Obama has quietly postponed an audience with the Dalai Lama until after he visits China in November.

Asked for the first time today about the infamous ACORN footage, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs called the conduct of some of the organization's employees "indefensible."

Obama administration officials are on their way to Poland and the Czech Republic to deliver very bad news. The administration intends to cancel completely the missile defense sites that had been promised to these governments by the previous administration.

Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Obama's new top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, is privately requesting between 30,000 and 40,000 more troops, a request that has produced "sticker shock" and "huge resistance" among key lawmakers

VIDEO: Obama calls Kanye West a "jackass'

Obama czar John Holdren in 1971: New ice age likely

VIDEO: Charley Rangel calls Bush a "son of a bitch"

The situation at recently rescued Chrysler Group is even more dire than first thought, the CEO of Italy's Fiat -- which came to the aid of the U.S. automaker --.  "We were surprised by how little had been done in the past 24 months," Sergio Marchionne told reporters in Frankfurt, Germany.

AUDIO: Bizarre Obama race-baiting interview from 1995: "I think that if you are a white executive living out in the suburbs who doesn't want to pay taxes to inner city children to go to school."- "...My individual salvation is not going to come about without a collective salvation from the country.."

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs fired back at GOP critics of White House czars.   Gibbs said GOP “silence was deafening” on the issue of czars during former President George W. Bush's administration.

Cuba's foreign minister on Wednesday lashed out at US President Barack Obama for keeping in place a crushing, 47-year-old trade embargo against the communist island, despite having recently eased travel and money transfer restrictions.

The Obama administration signaled Wednesday that it would scrap a controversial Bush-era rule that set stricter limits for smog but fell short of scientific recommendations.   In a notice filed in a federal appeals court, the Justice Dept.says there are concerns that the revision made by the Bush administration does not adhere to federal air pollution law. The EPA will propose revised smog standards to protect health and the environment in late December.

Joe Biden lies about stimulus success.  -White House is taking credit for starting to build hundreds of rural water systems nationwide.

CEO of CocaCola speaks about a possible Obama tax on Soda: "I have never seen it work where a government tells people what to eat and what to drink. If it worked, the Soviet Union would still be around."

Hillary Clinton hosted an "iftar" at the State Department Monday evening. "Iftar" refers the one meal participating Muslims have each day after fasting from sun-up to sun-down for one month, in observation of Ramadan -- the holiest period of each year and the ninth month in the Islamic calendar.

VIDEO: Jimmy Carter talks about Obama: "...this black ... boy"

The Obama administration has privately concluded that a cap and trade law would cost American taxpayers up to $200 billion a year, the equivalent of hiking personal income taxes by about 15 percent.   A previously unreleased analysis prepared by the U.S. Department of Treasury says the total in new taxes would be between $100 billion to $200 billion a year. At the upper end of the administration's estimate, the cost per American household would be an extra $1,761 a year.

The Obama administration has for the first time set out its views on the controversial USA Patriot Act, telling lawmakers this week that legal approval of government surveillance methods scheduled to expire in December should be renewed, but leaving room to tweak the law to protect Americans' privacy.

Another first for the Obama administration: This week the House is scheduled to approve H.R. 3221, an education lending bill that CBO reports will increase the deficit by $50 billion. The bill includes a little-known provision to give the Secretary of Education $500 million - to be provided to to any entity he deems “appropriate” - to develop and disseminate free and “freely available” online courses.

The Treasury Department said it will begin winding down one of the emergency programs created at the height of the financial crisis to give the government more time before it hits the national debt limit.Treasury said in a statement that it planned to trim the size of its Supplementary Account to $15 billion. The program is currently running around $200 billion, down from a maximum of $560 billion that it reached last year.  By reducing the size of the program implemented to help fund financial rescue efforts, Treasury will buy about six weeks of maneuvering room before it hits the current debt limit of $12.1 trillion.

The list" for 9/15/2009"

Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein, drew up a "First Amendment New Deal," a new "fairness doctrine" that would include the establishment of a panel of "nonpartisan experts" to ensure "diversity of view" on the airwaves

AUDIO:  Obama calls Kanye West a "jackass"

Officials at the Treasury Department think cap-and-trade legislation would cost taxpayers hundreds of billion in taxes, according to internal documents circulated within the agency and provided to The Washington Times…A memo prepared by Judson Jaffe, who works in the Treasury’s Office of Environment and Energy, referenced President Obama’s remarks on energy policy in his State of the Union Address and said, given the president’s plan to auction emissions allowances, “a cap-and-trade program could generate federal receipts on the order of $100 to $200 billion annually.

Trade policies pursued by Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress since the start of the year could lead to the loss of 585,800 U.S. jobs, a study said on Tuesday.  The study done for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce attributed almost two-thirds of the potential job losses, or 383,400, to Congress' failure to approve free trade agreements with Colombia and South Korea.

For the first time in nearly 30 years, the EPA plans to strengthen standards for water pollution from coal-fired power plants.

Obama speaks to auto workers, says his policies are working

The Obama administration is holding off major decisions to send more troops to Afghanistan. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs has said no decision about adding troops is expected for "weeks and weeks," following what he described as intensive evaluation.

The Obama administration is unveiling plans to require higher efficiency standards for cars and trucks and tougher rules on vehicle greenhouse gas emissions. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson call for the auto industry's fleet of new vehicles to average 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016. The plan follows up on Obama's announcement in May that the government regulations would link emissions and fuel economy standards. The Obama administration estimated earlier this year the requirements would cost up to $1,300 per new vehicle by 2016 but take just three years to pay off the investment and save about $2,800 over the life of the vehicle through better gas mileage

The list" for 9/14/2009"

Capt. Connie Rhodes, who claimed her superiors had prevented her from attending her previous, emergency court hearing, finally stood before a judge today to question the constitutional eligibility of her commander in chief.  Rhodes, a medical doctor and Army officer, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Columbus, Ga., earlier this month, requesting a restraining order preventing her deployment overseas on the basis that the top of the chain of command, President Barack Obama, has not demonstrated himself to be a natural born citizen under the U.S. Constitution.

Obama to appear on 5 separate chat shows to push Obamacare

The U.S. Treasury Department and Citigroup Inc have begun discussing how to sell the 34 percent stake that the government acquired in the rescue of the bank, people familiar with the matter said.

The Obama administration argued late Monday that allowing terrorism detainees in Afghanistan to file lawsuits in U.S. courts challenging their detention would endanger the military mission in that country.

Obama's regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein: There is no moral concern regarding cloning human beings since human embryos, which develop into a baby, are "only a handful of cells,

Obama waited over 48 hours before finally releasing a very short statement condemning the Friday shooting of pro-life advocate James Pouillon. Within hours of the shooting of late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller, Obama had a statement

In his interview on 60 minutes Obama said he will not consider tort  reform, after saying he would consider it in his address before congress

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday rejected U.S. calls to freeze all settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, angering Palestinians and putting a New York summit in question.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar moved to prepare the nation's parks, refuges and endangered species for the onslaught of global warming.  Salazar signed an order setting up a Climate Change Response Council and eight regional response centers to study and respond to such issues as rising sea levels threatening to swamp historic structures and warmer temperatures shifting where wildlife live.   The order also commits the Interior Dept. to develop a plan to reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions including setting a firm target.

The Obama administration has proposed the possible pull out of all 40 F-16s from Misawa AB to the government of Japan. The discussion are supposed to have taken place back in April and have only now been released.

Beijing filed a World Trade Organization complaint Monday over new U.S. tariffs on Chinese tires, stepping up pressure on Washington in the latest in a series of trade disputes.

Obama's numerous links with international Marxism are exposed in an interview with Trevor Loudon- a New Zealand researcher.  In his interview, he explains 'Obama attended “socialist conferences” at the Cooper union while in New York.'  Recieved campaign support from the DSA (The Democrat Socialists of America),  and both the Chicago Communist Party and Young Communist League campaigned for Obama in his 2004 Senate race and both organizations overtly campaigned for Obama in 2008.  A list of socialist connections for Obama appointees is also at link

George Mitchell applies the pressure to Israel to halt settlements

The Pentagon is to give some 600 prisoners held in the US air base in Bagram, Afghanistan, the right to challenge their detention.  "It's basically a review procedure that ensures people go in front of a panel periodically to give them the opportunity to contest their detention," - The inmates would be aided by a uniformed "personal representative" who would "guide them through this administrative process, to help gather witness statements,

The list" for 9/13/2009"

According to the Global Times English-language edition, the national flag of the communist People's Republic of China on Sept. 20 will be raised for the first time on the White House's south lawn – a secured area seldom available for public events – in recognition of the Chinese anniversary.

Obama administration plans to issue new guidelines meant to provide prisoners at a U.S. detention center in Afghanistan greater latitude in challenging their detention, The New York Times reported in its Sunday edition.  Citing Pentagon officials and advocates for detainees at the U.S.-run prison at Bagram Air Base, the newspaper said each of the approximately 600 detainees would be assigned a U.S. military official who would have the authority to look for evidence, including witnesses and classified material, for any detainee challenging his detention.

Obama's choice for assistant deputy secretary for the office of Safe & Drug Free Schools in the U.S. Department of Education, Kevin Jennings, once boasted that he introduced homosexual advocacy into the school system in Massachusetts by manipulating the message presented to lawmakers.

Despite a still-lagging U.S. economy and rising unemployment rate, House Democrats announced late yesterday that they will seek a massive increase in federal income taxes to help pay for the national health-care reform proposal that President Obama is urging Congress to enact this summer.

Obama plans calls for the U.S. Department of Education to move from its current 20% share of the student-loan origination market to 80% on July 1, 2010, when private lenders will be barred from making government-guaranteed loans. The remaining 20% of the market that is now completely private will likely shrink further as lenders try to comply with regulations Congress created last year. Starting next summer, taxpayers will have to put up roughly $100 billion per year to lend to students.

China retaliates for Obama's trade tariffs, with sanctions of their own.  China announces a probe into the alleged dumping of American auto and chicken products, two days after Obama imposes tariffs on imports of tires from China.

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius - on ‘This Week’ the President will go beyond language in a House bill to make sure no public money goes to pay for abortions under health care reform.   Sebelius -there will be no uncertainty with the President's plan.

Obama's senior adviser, David Axelrod, said conservative protests in Washington are not indicative of the country's mood.   Conservatives have the right to protest, Axelrod said on CBS's "Face the Nation, but "they don’t represent a mainstream view."

The president’s chief economic advisor, Larry Summers, warned that the U.S. unemployement rate could stay “unacceptably high” for years to come .

In contrast to some American media, one UK paper counts as many as 2 million people at anti-Obama protest

The Obama administration stonewalls the US Civil Rights Commission on the Black Panther case.  the DOJ’s excuse to use its own investigation to stall a response to its inquiry would be analogous to a corporation charged with employment discrimination which instituted an internal investigation — and then claimed that a civil lawsuit couldn’t proceed until the corporation investigated itself.

The Obama administration is considering bulldozing cities as part of a drastic "shrink to survive" proposal.  

Reid called Bush a "Liar" back in 2004.  In 2005, called him a "loser".

 Obama's Thirty Third Week in Office

Latest Additions to "The List"

The list" for 9/12/2009"

Pictures of election documents in question on Obama eligibility

Obama is tempting Iran with a $2.5 billion airplane purchase deal if it is willing to negotiate on its nuclear ambitions

The Obama administration is preparing new rules that would give hundreds of prisoners being held by the U.S. military in Afghanistan the right to challenge their detentions, according to published reports.

Obama says nothing after abortion protester is shot dead

The White House inadvertantly admitted a slow takeover of health care.  In a response to Joe Wilson's coment, the following is said "“Undocumented immigrants would be able to buy insurance in the non-exchange private market, just as they do today. That market will shrink as the exchange takes hold, but it will still exist and will be subject to reforms such as the bans on pre-existing conditions and caps.”

After screaming "YOU LIE" at Obama, Joe Wilson raises $1 million

VIDEO: Time action video demonstrates the size of anti-Obama rally

VIDEO: Massive anti-Obama protest in Washington DC

Massive numbers of protesters fed up with government spending marched to the U.S. Capitol on Saturday, showing their disdain for the president's health care plan with slogans such as "Obamacare makes me sick" and "I'm not your ATM.

Obama on Friday slapped punitive tariffs on all car and light truck tires entering the United States from China.

After Obama says the health plan won't cover abortion, Pro-life members of Congress and Stop the Abortion Mandate, a coalition of pro-life groups, responded to Obama’s remarks at a press conference.  Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-Pa..) co-sponsored an amendment with Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) that would prohibited federal funding of abortion in the health care plan, but it was voted down by the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Pitts said the bill will use taxpayer dollars to fund abortions.  He also said an amendment sponsored by Rep. Lois Capps (D-Calif.) that was approved by the committee will actually mandate federal payment for elective abortions.

The White House tonight is providing "clarification" on what the president's health-care proposals would mean when it comes to the issue of illegal immigrants.  A long response to the Joe Wilson "You Lie" outburst

Washington has revoked the visas of Honduras' interim president and 17 other top officials to pressure the Central American nation to reinstate ousted leader Manuel Zelaya, Honduras' government said Saturday.

The list" for 9/11/2009"

The EPA announcedthat 79 applications for surface coal-mine permits in Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio and Tennessee might violate the nation's Clean Water Act and require closer scrutiny.  The EPA's action was an abrupt shift from the last big batch of surface mining permits that it's considered during the Obama administration. In May, the agency said it had no concerns with 42 of 48 permits, and blocked six

The U.S. State Department said on Friday it was prepared to hold direct talks with North Korea to try to coax it back into multilateral negotiations on ending its nuclear programs.

A U.S. District Court hearing to determine if a Army captain fighting deployment to Afghanistan because of the challenged the legitimacy of Barack Obama’s presidency was rescheduled for Monday.

VIDEO: Obama remembers the 9-11 bombing and its victims, calling it a National Day of Service, ....by painting at a habitat project

Obama's nominee for the top international post at the Treasury Department has been sidetracked by a Senate committee's investigation into her personal tax returns.  Of particular concern is Lael Brainard's use of a home-office tax deduction, according to people familiar with the inquiry.  The delay in considering her nomination has left empty a treasury position responsible for negotiating with foreign governments

After Obama gets called "Liar" after saying the health bill did not cover illegals, Rep Joe Wilson's outburst leads the Senate Democrats to close loophole that would have covered illegal aliens.  

In April 2005,  Obama Czar Cass Sunstein opened up a conference at Yale Law School entitled "The Constitution in 2020," which sought to change the nature and interpretation of the Constitution by that year.  This includes a new "bill of rights"guaranteeing Americans to a "useful job", "decent home", and "good education"

Federal deficit climbs higher into record territory, hits $1.38 trillion in first 11 months.

Repubicans say they have introduced 35 health care plans and Obama will "not discuss" any of them

The Obama administration opened a new front in its effort to impose $31.5 billion in taxes on oil and gas companies, saying that the nation puts too much emphasis on oil and gas at the expense of other industries.  The chief economist in the Obama administration's Treasury Department testified before a Senate panel that current subsidies "lead to overinvestment" in the oil and gas industry

The list" for 9/10/2009"

Judge in Obama elegibility case has granted "expedited discovery" immediately

Obama meets with Abu Dhabi crown prince.  Obama and the prince talk about nuclear cooperation., "including the administration's support for the US-UAE Agreement for Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation," the White House.

Obama flip flops on mandatory coverge provision

Many of the people working with President Obama are Marxists or socialists with backgrounds in the Communist Party, according to a socialist Columbia University professor with strong ties to Obama's radical associates, including Weathermen terrorist Bill Ayers

Obama's newly confirmed administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs , Cass Sunstein, has several times quoted approvingly from an author who likened animals to slaves and argued an adult dog or a horse is more rational than a human infant and should therefore be granted similar rights

Senate seeks to end ban on F-22 sales to foreign counties.  Will produce plane for foreign sales onlyCBO director says Obama health care plan could cost a trillion more

Obama pick for regulatory czar extremist Harvard professor Cass Sunstein approved by senate.

Still photo of Obama standing up and cheering with congressional Democrats while interrupting Bush 2006 address

The communications director for the National Endowment for the Arts, Yosi Sergant, is no longer in his job amid a flap over suggestions he suggested artists work to further President Obama's legislative agenda.

Todd Stern, the State Department's special envoy for climate change, told a House panel that it was critical for the Senate to pass legislation to give the U.S. the "credibility and leverage" that it needs to convince other countries to reduce their pollution.

Part of the teachers' excercises after Obama's televised speech to students: put up “quotations” from Obama on the walls, and having the children making a “pledge” to do what they can to “serve” President Obama

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is planning to move several hundred Border Patrol agents away from the U.S.-Mexico border and will not secure a single additional mile of the U.S. border in fiscal 2010, according to the department's annual performance report.

Fraudulent Obama election document surfaces.   Modified document that omits the phrase "and that the following candidates for President and Vice President of the United States are legally qualified to serve under the provisions of the United States Constitution"

VIDEO: President George W. Bush is booed and heckled by Democrats at his 2005 State of the Union address.

Obama said he accepts the apology ofRe. Joe Wilson, who interrupted the president's speech last night to yell,  "You Lie!" after a line about how health insurance would not be provided to illegal immigrants. The president brushes off Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst during health care speech."I'm a big believer that we all make mistakes,"

Obama accused Bill Clinton of peddling "bald-faced lies" during the presidential campaign, according to a new book on the 2008 race. 

Democrats heckled Bush in 2004 and 2005

VIDEO: Obama science czar John Holdren from 2007: he claims a “strain” of “US exceptionalism” redistribution is the solution to curing this “problem

Obama appointed General Motors Co. Chairman Edward Whitacre Jr. will be the pitchman who starts the automaker's new advertising campaign this weekend with television spots urging people to try GM's new vehicle

The list" for 9/9/2009"

Obama's speech:  his $900 Billion health plan would require individuals to carry insurance, mandate large employers to provide it and subsidize coverage for those who could not afford it.

Obama has held just one cabinet meeting since his inauguration

The United States on Wednesday formally cut off $11 million in aid to Honduras in response to the June 28 military coup that ousted the elected president of the poor Central American nation.

The Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility has begun an official inquiry into the dismissal in May of a civil complaint against the New Black Panther Party and two of its members who disrupted a Philadelphia polling place during the November general elections.

Last month In Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Obama declared: "I don't have to explain to you that nearly 46 million Americans don't have health insurance coverage today. In the wealthiest nation on Earth, 46 million of our fellow citizens have no coverage."  Tonight Obama declared that "[t]here are now more than 30 million American citizens who cannot get coverage.he number of our fellow citizens who have no coverage is 30 million

GOP Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina apologizes for calling out "Liar" at Obama

VIDEO: Audience yells "liar" at Obama during health care speech to congress

Obama's new rules of engagement are held responsible for troop deaths in Afghanistan

VIDEO: Cash for clunkers fails to help Chrysler and GM into positive territory

VIDEO: Newly uncovered Van Jones tape ties to a young Obama

Obama has not invited Republicans to the White House to talk about health care since April

Nancy Pelosi only signed two of three required petitions to nominate Obama, leaving out the third.  The third, which was left out, contained a US constitution provision

EPA will pursue a ban on the manufacture and distribution of lead tire weights in response to a 2009 petition from the Ecology Center, the Sierra Club and other NGOs requesting that the agency establish regulations prohibiting the manufacture, processing, and distribution of lead tire weights.

The list" for 9/8/2009"

While the Obama administration and its Democratic allies in Congress press to allow private-sector workers to unionize by signing authorization cards instead of voting by secret ballot, the government's legal-aid program for the poor has declared the so-called "card check" strategy "unreliable" and rejected an effort by some of its own workers to organize that way.

A new report that for the first time gauges the impact of health care reform two decades out shows the nation's budget imbalance would skyrocket after 2020. The House bill would increase the budget deficit by $1 trillion between 2020 to 2029, up from $39 billion from 2010 through 2019, says the Peterson Foundation study, conducted by the nonpartisan Lewin Group.

Taxpayers face losses on a significant portion of the $81 billion in government aid provided to the auto industry, an oversight panel said in a report to be released Wednesday.

Obama suggests tax on soda

States are ignoring stimulus welfare fund; many states aren’t taking advantage of the windfall because state officials say they can’t afford the requirement that they put up 20 percent of the costs. Six months into the stimulus, only 27 states have applied for the money.

Cash for Clunkers program helped new car dealers, but it is dramatically raising the price of relatively inexpensive used cars, hurting the poor, dealers say.

Obama inspires the sale of over 1,000,000 guns in August

Obama has decided that another oration will rejuvenate his health-care agenda—despite having given 27 speeches entirely on health care, and another 92 in which it figured prominently

Military wary leery of Afghanistan escalation with no goals and some top Pentagon officials are warning that dispatching even tens of thousands more soldiers and Marines might not ensure success.

Obama panel says high costs makes going to the moon too expensive.  The expert panel estimates it would cost about $3 billion a year beyond NASA's current $18 billion annual budget.

Barack Obama will cement the new co-operative relationship between the US and the United Nations this month when he becomes the first American president to chair its 15-member Security Council.

A California judge today tentatively scheduled a trial for Jan. 26, 2010, for a case that challenges Barack Obama's eligibility to be president based on questions over his qualifications under the requirements of the U.S. Constitution.  If the case actually goes to arguments before U.S. District Judge David Carter, it will be the first time the merits of the dispute have been argued in open court, according to one of the attorneys working on the issue.

Obama floats middle east plan with Arab leaders: IncludesDeploying international forces in the Jordan Valley and some areas of the West Bank.  The United States commits to the establishment of a Palestinian state in the summer of 2011.

The Dept. of Education's "Menus of classroom activities" for use with Obama's speech

The “corrected” lesson plans the U.S. Department of Education is suggesting that schools around the country use to turn Obama’s speech to students today into a “teachable moment” still call for teachers to read books about Obama and to post quotations from Obama in large print on classroom walls.   The Department of Education created two “menus of classroom activities” for use with the president’s speech.  One is designed to guide Pre-K through 6^th grade teachers, and the other is designed to guide 7^th through 12^th grade teachers.

One of Obama's chief campaign advisors losing patience with Obama; Steve Hildebrand, the deputy campaign manager

Obama's nominee at the Department of Homeland Security overseeing bioterrorism defense has served as a key adviser for a lobbying group funded by the pharmaceutical industry that has asked the government to spend more money for anthrax vaccines and biodefense research.  Dr. Tara O'Toole, whose confirmation as undersecretary of science and technology is pending, never reported her involvement with the lobbying group called the Alliance for Biosecurity in a recent government ethics filing.

The U.S. Justice Department is urging a federal judge in California to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the constitutional eligibility of Barack Obama to hold the office of president.   The hearing before Judge David Carter features attorney Orly Taitz and numerous plaintiffs, as well as a document that one person has sworn is the original birth certificate of Obama from Kenya – not Hawaii, where the administration maintains Obama was born

The list" for 9/7/2009"

Van Jones was Arriana Huffington's Political Director.  Huffington’s liberal gossip site the Huffington Post has been vigorously defending green jobs czar and 9/11 “truther” Van Jones

Controversial legislation that would make it easier to organize unions will pass this year, Vice President Joe Biden said today.   Appearing at a Labor Day rally in Pittsburgh, Biden praised the role of unions in building the middle class and said the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) will make it through Congress before the end of the year

VIDEO: Van Jones did not fill out the White House seven-page, 63-question questionnaire that is put forward to everyone who was either going to have a Cabinet position or a high-ranking advisory position in the White House.

 Prepared remarks of Obama's back to school speech (Uses the word "I" 56 times)

VIDEO: Joe Biden touts millions on unemplyment as proof of stimulus success

The list" for 9/6/2009"

VIDEO: From 2007, candidate Obama answers a question about his lack of experience. He says he knows how to pick talent. He will set a course and mobilize his assembled talent to achieve that goal.

In Cincinnati tomorrow, President Obama will announce that he's appointing Ron Bloom his Senior Counselor for Manufacturing Policy, White House sources tell ABC News.

Israel defied U.S. pressure to halt construction in its West Bank settlements,. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak are expected to approve orders for about 500 new apartments

VIDEO: Van Jones mocking Rumsfeld for resigning

Obama thanks Van Jones for his service

Union officials are likely to fill key positions on committees making major decisions if Obama's government-run health care reform proposal becomes law, according to a new study by the National Right to Work Committee.

Orleans Parish School Board Superintendent Darryl Kilbert said Friday he's ordering teachers, staff and students to watch President Obama's address designated for schools on Sep. 8

British claim that they kept Obama and Hillary Clinton informed at all stages of discussions concerning the release of the Lockerbie bomber (Megrahi)

Obama’s “Green Czar” Van Jones resigned early this  morning citing a “vicious smear campaign against me.”

Van Jones on why he went to Yale: Yale didn't have any grades and was smaller than Harvard. I figured, once I enroll I'm guaranteed to graduate, so I can just go and be a radical hellraiser student, and they can't do anything about it. Which is pretty much what happened.

VIDEO: Nancy Pelosi praises Van Jones

 Obama's Thirty Second Week in Office

Latest Additions to "The List"

The list" for 9/5/2009"

Environmental adviser for President Barack Obama, Van Jones, resigns

Obama green czar Van Jones protested the 1998 attacks on Al-Queda camps.  

1998 Story in S.F Chronicle with Van Jones comments

AUDIO: Obama green czar green czar in bizaare hate filled rant in 2003. -Jones at the 4:20 mark of the audio-...."....The end of the occupation. The right of return of the Palestinian people. These are critical dividing lines in human rights. We have to be here. No American would put up with an Israeli-style occupation of their hometown for 53 days let alone 54 years. US tax dollars are funding violence against people of color inside the US borders and outside the US borders"

The White House discloses 10 more ethics waiers for administration officials.  White house councel Norm Eison calls Obama's executive order on Ethics for Executive Office personnel "the strongest ethics standards in U.S. government history,

White house councel Norm Eison's announcement of the executive order on Ethics for Executive Office personnel

The Department of Energy has finalized a $535 million loan guarantee for Solyndra, Inc., which manufactures innovative cylindrical solar photovoltaic panels

The list" for 9/4/2009"

VIDEO: Obama "Green Jobs Czar" Van Jones saying "you've never seen a Columbine done by a black child."

The Treasury Department formally lifted nearly all U.S. restrictions on family travel to Cuba on Thursday, along with limits on how much money families can send to relatives on the island.

The United States is funding a Palestinian Authority project to place non-Hebrew road signs throughout Judea and Samaria. The PA plans to implement it in exclusively Israeli-controlled areas as well.  The project is part of American aid “towards the establishment of an independent Palestinian state,” as a top official of USAID (United States Agency for International Development) in the PA, Howard Sumka, told the Al-Hayat Arabic daily.

Cass Sunstein, Obama’s nominee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), has advocated a policy under which the government would “presume” someone has consented to having his or her organs removed for transplantation into someone else when they die unless that person has explicitly indicated that his or her organs should not be taken.

The Obama administration says it will release names of most visitors to the White House, starting at the end of this year. Information on visitors in the first eight months of his administration will remain secret — though officials say they will consider narrow and specific requests.

White House press secretary Gibbs derides opposition to a speech that President Barack Obama intends to give public school children

Asked if controversial White House official Van Jones continues to enjoy the confidence of President Obama, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs Friday morning would only say "he continues to work in this administration."

VDEO: Obama's green czar Van Jones says (Bush) is like a 'crack head', Jones then says he is using 'ebonics'

Israeli plan to build hundreds of new housing units in West Bank settlements draws harsh criticism from the Obama administration

The list" for 9/3/2009"

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will soon approve the construction of hundreds of new housing units in West Bank settlements before he declares a moratorium on building in those locales, according to a senior government source.

Obama's Green Czar Van Jones issued a statement apologizing for past incendiary statement and denying that he ever agreed with 2004 petition on which his name appears, a petition calling for congressional hearings and an investigation by the New York Attorney General into "evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the September 11th attacks to occur."

Red Chinese flag to be raised at the White House.  The People’s Republic of China is celebrating 60 years of hard core communism ... by raising the flag of that communist country on the south lawn of the White House on September 20.

The US Treasury Thursday eased restrictions on travel and money transfers to Cuba, a move aimed at promoting "greater contact between separated family members in the United States and Cuba."

The Treasury Department has decided not to challenge the independence of the government watchdog agency that Congress created to oversee spending of the $700 billion rescue package for the financial sector.

The health care bill under consideration in the House of Representatives would give Obama the authority to name a new federal “Health Choices Commissioner” who would have sweeping power to govern the health insurance plans offered in a so-called "exchange" where millions of Americans would get their health insurance if the bill is enacted.  These powers would include deciding which treatments are covered, which companies can participate, which states can run their own exchange, and enrolling individuals into the public exchange.

Partial Israeli, US Agreement on Judea and Samaria, 9 month settlement freeze except for current building underway

Number of schools opting out of Obama's kinderspeech grows

Insidecostarica.com is reporting that "The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has granted $150 million to Honduras, ignoring the international community's calls to increase sanctions against the regime currently usurping power in that country."$150 million happens to be almost precisely the amount that Hillary Clinton and the U.S. State Department has been threatening to withhold, according to Reuters.   Bush appointee to the IMF, mild mannered Meg Lundsager, who was sworn in as Executuve Director of the IMF seems to have been responsible

The Department of State announces the termination of a broad range of assistance to the government of Honduras as a result of the coup d’etat that took place on June 28. The Secretary already had suspended assistance shortly after the coup.

Mutliple pictures of Obama and Blagojevich that conflict with statement by Obama:, "I only saw Rod Blagojevich one time ... and that was in the stands and from a distance at a Chicago Bears Football Game."-

Obama Green czar Van Jones signed a statement for 911Truth.org in 2004 demanding an investigation into what the Bush Administration may have done that “deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war.”

AUDIO: Interview conducted by “Uprising Radio” with Obama green czar Van Jones seventeen months ago.  Jones, the green jobs czar, explains how his allies want to conduct a revolution on the sly

Douglas County Colorado School District forced to allow parents to 'opt out' of Obama school speech by angry parents

Obama Speech creates a stir at Dallas-Fort Worth schools - Schools may opt out

The list" for 9/2/2009"

Obama copies JFK with photo ops of his kids playing in the oval office

The Obama administration late Wednesday withdrew a recommendation that school children who watch a video featuring President Obama next week write about how they might "help the president" as part of a classroom assignment

Right blasts Obama speech to kids.  Call it socialist indoctrination

Parents across the country are rebelling against plans by President Barack Obama to speak directly to their children through the classrooms of the nation's public schools without their presence, participation and approval.

The Obama administration’s updated budget forecasts that the federal government will run up $9.05 trillion in new debt over the next decade is predicated on the assumption of a robust rate of economic growth during that entire period, claiming that the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will grow at an average rate of 2.8 percent between 2009 and 2019.   If the economy does not grow as much or as persistently as the administration predicts federal deficit spending will be even greater than the administration estimates

Federal authorities failed to follow through on plans earlier this year to burn away highly flammable brush in a forest on the edge of Los Angeles to avoid the very kind of wildfire now raging there, The Associated Press has learned.

VIDEO: Obama green czar says "white polluters steered poison into minority communities"

Iberdrola SA, a Spanish company, will get most of the more than $500 million in economic recovery funds the Obama administration said it is distributing to U.S. renewable-energy projects.

An Obama administration plan to cut Medicare payments to heart and cancer doctors by $1.4 billion next year is generating a backlash

Link to 51 page solicitation proposal to snoop on websites to the White House

The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) has uncovered a plan by the White House New Media operation to hire a technology vendor to conduct a massive, secret effort to harvest personal information on millions of Americans from social networking websites.

VIDEO: Obama advisor Van Jones, 60% of Americans are "assholes"...'and Barak Obama is not an asshole'

VIDEO:  Scientists who helped develop the vaccine say they are not going to take it and are urging their friends and family not to take it either.

The list" for 9/1/2009"

Two parts of the Obama administration are giving conflicting reports on the dangers posed by terrorist detainees to Congress and the U.S. courts, executive branch.   Anonymous sources claim that the administration is deliberately misleading their reports (risk assessments) when releasing GITMO prisoners and their potential threats to the public

NEA Artists to promote Obama?

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is to meet Thursday with Manuel Zelaya to discuss the deadlock following his ouster as president of Honduras in a June 28 coup, her spokesman said Tuesday.

Guest list for Obama's White House Ramadan dinner.  -Invited guests include three Cabinet secretaries, numerous diplomats, five members of Congress including the lone Muslim, Keith Ellison of Minnesota, and chief of the Palestine Liberation Organization mission.

Anyone who posts comments on the White House’s Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and Twitter pages will have their statements captured and permanently archived by the federal government, according to a plan that the White House is now seeking a contractor to carry out.

The cash for clunkers law, signed by Obama, gave the Transportation Department the authority to audit car dealerships at any time, for any reason... the Transportation Department is focusing on possible fraud in the disposal of trade in vehicles...August 31st, only 5.7% of all ‘clunkers’ deals have been reimbursed

Obama says the swine flu vaccine is voluntary but the government will "strongly recommend" that citizens get it.

President Barack Obama plans to observe the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks with a visit to the Pentagon, but no plans to visit New York City

Obama Justice Dept. will undergo major increase in Civil Rights enforcement.  White House proposes huge increase in lawyers to small dept.

Obama makes unprecedented address to public school kids, grades preK-6.  Dept. of eductaion issues a "to do" list.

With little fanfare, a deal is moving forward to direct billions in U.S. tax dollars to an unlikely beneficiary -- the giant British liquor producer that makes Captain Morgan rum.  Under the agreement, London-based Diageo PLC will receive tax credits and other benefits worth $2.7 billion over 30 years.  Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has said he does not have authority to block or investigate the project.

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced $502 million in the first round of awards from an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) program that provides cash assistance to energy production companies in place of earned tax credits

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) and the Coalition for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) have filed suit in the District of Columbia Federal Court against the White House Over the "Sounds fishy, spy on your neighbor and send an email" program which drew fire last month.

VIDEO: Obama Green czar Van Jones at the 2009 BERC annual lecture

The list" for 8/31/2009"

If you're planning a garage sale or organizing a church bazaar, you'd best beware: You could be breaking a new federal law. As part of a campaign called Resale Roundup, the federal government is cracking down on the secondhand sales of dangerous and defective products.

Washington will announce the renewal of talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority through a trilateral summit of U.S. President Barack Obama, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The meeting would take place on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly late this month; two years would be allotted to completing talks on a peace agreement.

There is growing tension between the White House and the Pentagon.  The prospect that U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal may ask for as many as 45,000 additional American troops in Afghanistan is fueling growing tension within Obama's administration over the U.S. commitment to the war there.

From the White House guidance for Tuesday: In the evening, the President will host a dinner celebrating Ramadan and highlight the contributions of American Muslims in the State Dining Room. The President's remarks will be pooled press.

Obama's environmental adviser, Van Jones, was the main speaker at an anti-war rally that urged "resistance" against the U.S. government

GM tells its remaing dealers: Learn to sell small cars

The White House was evidently listening when Senator Michael B. Enzi delivered the weekly Republican radio and Internet address Saturday. And the White House spokesman, Robert Gibbs, did not like what he heard on health care from the Wyoming lawmaker who is supposed to be part of bipartisan talks.  “It appears that, at least in Senator Enzi’s case, he doesn’t believe there’s a pathway to get bipartisan support,” Mr. Gibbs said Monday. “Senator Enzi’s clearly turned over his cards on bipartisanship and decided that it’s time to walk away from the table.

National Security Adviser, Gen. Jim Jones (Ret.), told ABC News in an exclusive interview that actually the reverse is true: President Obama’s greater success with international relations has meant more terrorists put out of commission

President Barack Obama will speak at the AFL-CIO convention in Pittsburgh next month.

VIDEO: W.H. Press Secr. Gibbs sidesteps question about poll that says only 4% of Jewish Israelis support Obama

Obama is expected to moderate a September meeting between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli President Shimon Peres said in an interview.  Says the two leaders would be meeting at the United Nations.

The White House spokesman says President Barack Obama has not yet seen a new assessment of the Afghan war.

The White House on Monday fired back after former Vice President Dick Cheney called the Obama administration's decision to open a probe into alleged CIA abuses an "outrageous political act."  White House Press Secretary Roberts Gibbs broadly dismissed Cheney's comments on "FOX News Sunday" as typical and unfounded. 

VIDEO: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs today going back to using the phrase "War on Terror"

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs used the term "war on terror" at today's press conference

Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says in a new book that White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel wanted his help in arranging to leave the Obama administration after two years to reclaim his seat in Congress.

More information is coming to light about why the Food and Drug Administration has made the decision to stop human trials involving embryonic stem cells. The reasons mirror the concerns pro-life advocates have had for years with the research, which has yet to help any patients

According to the Obama administration’s mid-session budget update, the federal government will have to borrow nearly 40 percent of its total expenditures in 2010

VIDEO: Joe Biden asks the American people to help debunk health care myths by creating videos explaining why you want reform.

A report by the top US general in Afghanistan is expected to admit the current strategy is not working

Obama health-scare tactics are just like the ones he used in Illinois state senate in 2004.  Obama is mustering some of the same rhetoric in 2009 he used in 2004: accuses opponents of "fear-mongering," telling lies and miscasting his proposal as "socialized medicine."

The list" for 8/30/2009"

Doctors say reimbrusement cuts may affect cancer treatment.   The U.S. Department of Health is proposing a major reduction in reimbursement for cancer treatments.Recently the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced they're planning on cutting reimbursement rates for radiation cancer treatment -- in some cases by 44 percent

Morale has sagged at the CIA following the release of additional portions of an inspector general's review of the agency's interrogation program and the announcement that the Justice Department would investigate possible abuses by interrogators, according to former intelligence officials, especially those associated with the program.

The official communist-oriented manifesto of Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM.

 The official communist-oriented manifesto (STORM) of a radical group founded by Obama's environmental adviser, Van Jones, was published in full on the Internet.  Now it has been removed.

Questions arise about the White House and release of the Lockerbie bomber to Libya:  Secretary of State Clinton remarks about the bomber (Megrahi) and her careful avoidance of any affirmative statement about Megrahi’s guilt.   In an Aug. 19 interview with the BBC Hillary Clinton says: “I just think it is absolutely wrong to release someone who has been imprisoned based on the evidence about his involvement in such a horrendous crime.”

Obama secret deal with George Soros?  Administration $2 Billion loan to Brazillian off shore oil drilling reveals that Soros owns 5.8 million of the Brazillian company’s U.S.-traded preferred shares

The Supreme Court will revisit "Hillary" documentary case

General Motors expands in China: GM signs a near 300 million dollar joint venture with the Chinese state-owned carmaker to make light trucks and vans

Obama's Thirty First Week in Office

"The list" for 8/29/2009

The United States has accused Pakistan of illegally modifying American-made missiles to expand its capability to strike land targets, a potential threat to India,- while the Obama administration is asking Congress to approve $7.5 billion in aid to Pakistan

VIDEO: Obama-"combining public and private health insurance worst of both worlds"

In 2006 Obama says combining public and private health insurance "worst of both worlds"

The night after the 9/11 bombing Obama's green jobs czar, Van Jones holds held a vigil "mourning the victims of U.S. imperialism around the world"

Obama food czar Michael Taylor accused of being responsible for food-related illness and GMO's

An Obama administration plan to cut Medicare payments to heart and cancer doctors by $1.4 billion next year is generating a backlash that’s undermining the president’s health-care overhaul.

VIDEO: Obama defense dept. refuses "fly-by" for 'God and Country Rally after a 42 year history of military flybys at the rally

"The list" for 8/28/2009

Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis now says she won’t make union officials comply with revised union financial disclosure requirements President Obama inherited from his predecessor

The Obama administration said Friday that two Democratic senators falsely took credit for steering millions of dollars to projects in their home state, even as officials acknowledged that the Homeland Security secretary met with the lawmakers and discussed financing the projects.

The Obama administration unveiled $1.2 billion in federal grants for electronic health records systems on Thursday, the first wave of funding under a health-care reform plan to create vast records-sharing networks aimed at cutting costs and improving care in the coming decade

The Obama EPA to name carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant

Obama EPA video contest.  "To educate people on lead poisoning prevention and the danger of lead exposure"

The US Central Intelligence Agency will pay the legal fees of any officers involved in a government probe of alleged abusive interrogation techniques, the Washington Post said Friday.

The FEC goes after Palin.  The Federal Elections Commission has found that former Gov. Sarah Palin's political action committee gave excessive contributions to two well-known Republicans.

America Renege's on a missile defense for Europe.   Obama jilts the Czech Republic and Poland.  The United States is poised to dump a critical missile-defense agreement. . The Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza reported that the Obama administration is going to scrap the "third site" anti-missile system scheduled to be deployed in Poland and the Czech Republic. Missile interceptors in Poland and a radar station in the Czech Republic were scheduled to be deployed by 2013. Now the plan appears to have been shot down

Bill would give the White House emergency control over the internet.   Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.

VIDEO: FCC "Diversity" Czar on Chavez's Venezuela: Incredible...Democratic Revolution

"The list" for 8/27/2009

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Thursday that politics did not influence the decision to spend millions of dollars in stimulus money on little-used border checkpoints while passing over higher-priority projects.

Washington may relocate the controversial missile defense system planned for Eastern Europe to the Balkans, Turkey or Israel.  The U.S. plan included 10 long-range interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar station in the Czech Republic. That plan will almost certainly be scrapped, Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza reports.

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and former high-ranking members of his administration won't be criminally charged in a yearlong federal investigation into pay-to-play allegations involving one of the Democratic governor's large political donors.  The decision not to pursue indictments was made by top Justice Department officials- "It's over. There's nothing. It was killed in Washington,"

U.S. State Department staff have recommended that the ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya be declared a "military coup," a U.S. official said on, a step that could cut off as much as $150 million in U.S. funding to the impoverished Central American nation.

The US voiced disappointment Thursday at the failure of a seven-nation mission to persuade coup leaders in Honduras to accept a settlement and renewed its support for ousted president Manuel Zelaya.

Despite Obama’s promises, pet projects still coddled in stimulus package- Despite Obama’s promises that the stimulus plan would be transparent and free of politics, the government is handing out $720 million for border upgrades under a process that is both secretive and susceptible to political influence. This allowed low-priority projects such as the checkpoint in Whitetail, Mont., to skip ahead of more pressing concerns, according to documents revealed to the Associated Press

 The Treasury Dept. statement marking the beginning of Ramadan

Obama using schools to get your kids to make you take the US Census

Obama Administration Urged to Consider Expanded Interrogation Methods.  Questions are being raised about the effectiveness -- and toughness -- of the Army Field Manual's interrogation guidelines, the standard ordered across the board by the Obama administration in response to allegations of CIA abuse of detainees. 

Health Care Bill Divulges IRS Tax Data

U.S. drops demand for Israel building freeze in East Jerusalem  The Obama administration has agreed to Israel's request to remove East Jerusalem from negotiations on the impending settlement freeze.According to both Israeli officials and Western diplomats, U.S. envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell has recognized the fact that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cannot announce a settlement freeze in East Jerusalem. The officials said the U.S. will not endorse new construction there, but would not demand Jerusalem publicly announce a freeze.

Retail expert and all-around economy watcher Howard Davidowitz on Obama's spenind spree: Budget Numbers "Have All Gone Mad," Analyst Says

A doctors' group and an organization that advocates for the interest of the inner-city poor have joined forced to sue the Obama administration.   The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and the Coalition for Urban Renewal and Education said the White House had attempted to "unlawfully" collect information on protected political speech when it asked Obamacare supporters to report any negative comments about the proposal to a U.S. government email address

Big winners in "Cash for Clunkers:: Toyota, Honda, Nissan

As part of a massive public relations and research campaign, the CDC has been hosting as many as 10 swine flu forums in nine U.S. cities before Labor Day – and it is shelling out as much as $50,000 for a program that pays citizens $50 when they preregister and attend.

As part of a massive public relations and research campaign, the CDC has been hosting as many as 10 swine flu forums in nine U.S. cities before Labor Day – and it is shelling out as much as $50,000 for a program that pays citizens $50 when they preregister and attend.

"The list" for 8/26/2009  

Organizing for America, the national network of Obama supporters, is trying to rev up support for healthcare reform with a bus tour

The Medicare Advantage program is being targeted by the White House.  A White House fact sheet titled "Paying for Health Care Reform," notes the administration would cut $622 billion from Medicare and Medicaid, with a big chunk coming from Medicare Advantage, to pay for overhauling health care.   Obama heralded these cuts as "common sense" in his June 13 radio address.  Medicare Advantage was enacted in 2003 to allow seniors to use Medicare funds to buy private insurance plans that fit their needs and their budgets. They get better care and better value for their money.

The subprime lenders that helped send the financial system -- and broader economy -- into a tailspin are now getting billions of taxpayer dollars to help fix the housing crisis.  As much as 21 billion in fresh handouts-

Mark Lloyd, chief diversity officer of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), called for a “confrontational movement” to combat what he claimed was control of the media by international corporations and to re-establish the regulatory power of government through robust public broadcasting and a more powerful FCC.

The Justice Department's decision to investigate CIA interrogation practices increased tension between the agencies and prompted a sense of betrayal among some CIA officers, current and former officials said.  

The real US unemployment rate is 16 percent if persons who have dropped out of the labor pool and those working less than they would like are counted, a Federal Reserve official said

A day later- the CDC and White House reduce their estimates on Swine Flu, now it is less than 90,000

Obama plans to bring Israeli and Palestinian leaders together for a face-to-face meeting at the United Nations General Assembly next month in a bid to revive long-stalled peace talks.

Unions to be given 10 billion for their pensions from the health care plan

The Congressional Research Service (CRS) says that illegal aliens would be covered under Obama's health care plan

The United States said it would temporarily restrict the issuing of U.S. visas in Honduras, raising pressure on the government that took power after a June 28 coup to step down

"The list" for 8/25/2009  

GE banking corruption linked to Obama administration.  Lobbyist dollars connect to a direct benefit for two banks owned by GE set to make federally guaranteed loans under the Waxman-Markey bill.

Obama wants to appoint his own whistle blowers.   Democrats push bill to give president power over the federal reserve.  H.R. 855, known as the Improved Financial and Commodity Markets Oversight and Accountability Act, would make five inspectors general – those overseeing the Federal Reserve, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the National Credit Union Administration, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation – presidential appointees.

Obama's numbers in the polls have him slipping badly.  Now there is little support to close Gitmo

College students recruited for "Obama's Army" and offered college credit to do so.

VIDEO:  Exposing radical book "Reclaiming Revolution," which is related to President Obama's "Green Jobs Czar" Van Jones. The book is connected to a radical group Jones helped to found called "STORM."

Van Jones, the man appointed as "green jobs czar" to the White House, previously served on the board of an environmental activist group at which Jeff Jones, a founder of the Weather Underground terrorist organization is a top director

Sen. Mike Enzi wants the Obama administration to withdraw its nominee for Solicitor of the Department of Labor, Patricia Smith.   An aide said, signals that if Obama does not withdraw Smith, he will put a "hold" on her nomination which will prevent the Senate from taking an up or down vote on whether she should get the job

Former USS Cole Commander Assails Release of Terrorist Suspected of Trying to Murder U.S. Soldiers- They are taking a page right out of the Lyndon Johnson Vietnam playbook, where it’s ‘let’s run things right out of the White House on a day-to-day basis, because we trust no one else in the government to be competent enough, talented enough or dedicated enough to be able to run a major war time effort,” said former USS Cole Commander Kirk S. Lippold

Cash for clunker cash consumers gets taxed

Government and Union controlled GM is to remove "Mark of Excellence" logo from vehicles

AUDIO: 2007 KJFK radio inteview with Obama in 2007 in which he says that his Attorney General would investigate Bush executive orders

White House says: "Ultimately, determinations about whether someone broke the law are made independently by the attorney general"

The Obama administration is setting strict new standards for treatment of terror suspects, as the Justice Department launches a criminal probe of past interrogation tactics during President George W. Bush's war on terrorism.  "...greater safeguards to ensure such suspects are not tortured"

White House officials said the disclosure of Obama's decision on the new interrogation team on the same day as the release of the report and the prosecutor announcement to investigate the CIA was coincidental.

"The list" for 8/24/2009  

Latest Stimulus "cash for clunker"- refridgerators

Swine flu may infect half the U.S. population this year, hospitalize 1.8 million patients and lead to as many as 90,000 deaths, more than twice the number killed in a typical seasonal flu, White House advisers said

Former Gitmo detainee Mohammed Jawad is in Afghanistan and will be released into his family's custody today.  Jawad was arrested by Afghan police in December 2002 for allegedly throwing a grenade into a vehicle containing two U.S. troops and an Afghan interpreter

Obama does not intend to voice his preference for whether anyone is prosecuted from prisoner abuse cases, a White House spokesman said Monday, and will allow Attorney General Eric Holder to make the decision.

GM may sign an agreement for the sale of the Hummer sport-utility vehicle business to a Chinese machinery maker this week

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has decided to appoint John Durham, a career Justice Department prosecutor from Connecticut to examine nearly a dozen cases in which CIA interrogators and contractors may have violated anti-torture laws;  For nearly two years, Durham has been probing whether laws against obstruction or false statements were violated in connection with the 2005 destruction of CIA videotapes

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has decided to appoint a prosecutor to examine nearly a dozen cases in which CIA interrogators and contractors may have violated anti-torture laws and other statutes when they allegedly threatened terrorism suspects

The Obama White House is behind a cynical, coldly calculated political effort to erase the meaning of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks from the American psyche and convert Sept. 11 into a day of leftist celebration

The Obama administration sets up new interrogation unit.  Obama has approved the creation of a specialized interrogation unit that would focus on key terror suspects

Panetta's letter to CIA staff on release of interrogation report

The Obama White House has a "profanity-laced screaming match" with CIA Director Leon Panetta over the release of another damning internal investigation. Panetta threatens to quit.

The Justice Department’s ethics office has recommended reversing the Bush administration and reopening nearly a dozen prisoner-abuse cases, potentially exposing Central Intelligence Agency employees and contractors to prosecution for brutal treatment of terrorism suspects, according to a person officially briefed on the matter.

"The list" for 8/23/2009  

The Justice Department’s ethics office has recommended reversing the Bush administration and reopening nearly a dozen prisoner-abuse cases, potentially exposing Central Intelligence Agency employees and contractors to prosecution for brutal treatment of terrorism suspects, according to a person officially briefed on the matter.

Military commanders with the NATO mission in Afghanistan told Obama's chief envoy to the region this weekend that they did not have enough troops to do their job, pushed past their limit by Taliban rebels who operated across borders

The much-trumpeted "reset" of relations between Russia and the U.S. was dealt a slap in the face last week as Moscow went on the offensive against Ukraine and Georgia. After Russian President Dmitri Medvedev waded into Ukrainian politics with barbed criticism of his Ukrainian counterpart's "anti-Russian" policies, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin embarked on a provocative trip to reaffirm support for Abkhazia, the Moscow-backed territory that enjoys de facto independence from Georgia.

Seven months into his presidency, fewer than half of Obama's top appointees are in place advancing his agenda.   Of more than 500 senior policymaking positions requiring Senate confirmation, just 43 percent have been filled so far

VIDEO: Sen. Charles Grassley on Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer, and pointing out that it was Obama who first used the phrase "pull the plug on Grandma."

U.S. combat deaths have risen since Obama ordered a troop buildup in Afghanistan, with a record 44 U.S. troops killed in in July.  Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff says conflict is deteriorating

The Middle East peace plan that United States President Barack Obama will unveil soon involves the creation of a Palestinian Authority state by 2011 and the transfer of Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem [presumably including the Temple Mount – ed.] to Arab-Muslim sovereignty, Saudi newspaper Al-Ukaz has learned.

 Obama's Thirtieth Week in Office

Latest Additions to "The List"

"The list" for 8/22/2009

The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee said last week that the Obama administration is making a mistake in demanding Israel completely freeze construction in the settlements

Obama, now says that "46 million can't get health insurance"

The White House revealed that it hired a private communications firm to distribute mass e-mails, including unsolicited spam to help sell Obama's health care plan. The company, Govdelivery, describes itself as the world's leading provider of government-to-citizen communication solutions.   It is still unknown how much taxpayer money the White House provides to Govdelivery for its services.

VIDEO: Obama invokes the phrase "greatest generations" to describe what this generation can become if we pass Government Health Care

Obama White house waits until another Friday afternoon to announce bad news (addition  deficits of 2 trillion) AND leaves town or the summer

Team Obama raises deficit projections by 2 trillion dollars

Factcheck.org: Tax money will pay for abortion in the health-care bill

White House is to set up a Farmers Market.   

"The list" for 8/21/2009

VIDEO: Doctor explains how Obamacare will result in a 76% reduction in Medicare reimbursements to doctors

The Obama administration will raise its 10-year budget deficit projection to approximately $9 trillion from $7.108 trillion

VIDEO: White House Press Secretary Gibbs says Obama willing to be one term president for his agenda

Obama has told lawmakers that he would give up a second term in office if it meant he could pass healthcare.

Obama's Consumer Product Safety Commission to crack down on garage sales

Michelle Obama on Forbes' list of "100 Powerful Women in America" at number 40

VIDEO: Obama could not find the time in his schedule for the National Day of Prayer, but finds time to make a video giving Muslims his best wishes on Ramadan- he end's the video with a "god's peace be upon you" for his Muslim viewers

VIDEO: Robert Gibbs says "wee weed up" means when "people get overly nervous over something that still has a long way to go." He added "bed wetting" would be the more "consumer friendly term."

"The list" for 8/20/2009

AUDIO: Now Air America calls Obama a liar.  Takes him to task for deal with big PhRMA

VIDEO: Obama says his plan will cover abortions in July 17, 2007 in speech to Planned Parenthood, says abortions are at the "center and heart" of his plan

Buried in the 1,017 pages of the House Democrats’ health-care bill is a little-noticed provision that for the first time could give the government access to the checking or credit-card information of every American.  Under section 163, which is entitled “Administrative Simplification,” the bill sets new “standards” for electronic transactions between individuals and their health-care providers. ...collection of such data is unprecedented. At no other time has the government sought to collect this type of financial information from everyone in America.