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
The U.S. administration has agreed to transfer the
F-18 Super Hornet fighter jets' technology to Brazil if the Brazilian
government chooses to purchase U.S. jets. 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 6th grade teachers, and the other is designed to guide 7th through 12th 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
The Obama administration has quietly announced there will be no raise
in social security payments next year and maybe not until 2012, a
presidential election year.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.
VIDEO:
Obama talking to his "Organizing for America" ground troops- "all wee weed up" about Gov. Sarah Palin being
nominated for the Republican Vice-Presidential nomination. He said
"Everyone was saying Obama has lost his mojo. Remember that?"
Obama devoted a single conference call to non-Orthodox Jewish religious
leaders before addressing over 140,000 other American religious leaders
to promote his ideas on healthcare
The United States is warning Libya not to make a
hero out of the terminally-ill Libyan, convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie
airliner bombing, who was allowed to return home by Scottish
authorities or face unspecified consequences in bilateral relations.
Obama administration plans to end the popular $3 billion Cash for Clunkers
program on Monday (10/23/2009)
The
White House had reserved 400 rooms for the town hall meeting in Montana
VIDEO:
Obama says GOP opposed to health care to stop Dem victory
Obama took to the conservative airwaves Thursday to charge that
Republican leaders are engaged in a vast right-wing conspiracy to kill
health care reform in order to repeat the 1994 mid-term takeover of
Congress, which followed the defeat of President Clinton's reform plan
The White House and Senate Democratic leaders, seeing little chance of
bipartisan support for their health-care overhaul, are considering a
strategy shift that would break the legislation into two parts and pass
the most expensive provisions solely with Democratic votes
VIDEO:
Conflicts of interests between Axelrod and big Pharma companies and big Unions
detailed by Michelle Malkin
Obama claims
it is a "fabrication" and "distraction" to say abortion
funding is included in the health care reform plans pending in Congress
In a move some fear is a reprisal for opposing President Obama's health care plan, Democrats sent 52 letters to health
insurers requesting financial records for a House committee's investigation.
"The list" for 8/19/2009
GM
sells Saab to the Swedes, American workers get the shaft
AUDIO:
Obama taking the mantle of the nation's preacher by accusing critics of
his Government Health Care Plan of "bearing false witness," and
insinuating that adoption of his plan is the only way to "be our
brother's keeper," meeting moral and ethical obligations to "look out
for each other.
The United States has harshly criticized new Israeli
restrictions placed on foreign nationals entering the West Bank via the
Allenby Bridge, calling the new regulations 'unacceptable'.
The government will announce a plan as soon as tomorrow for winding
down its popular but problem-plagued "cash for clunkers" program.
Attny
Gen. Eric Holder invited Arab
American Institute President James Zogby to be the closing speaker last
month at a Justice Department conference marking the 45th anniversary
of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Zogby has no direct tie to the Civil Rights movement.
Zogby's
record shows he is an apologist for Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups
like the Muslim Students Association (MSA) and terrorist organizations
Hamas and Hizballah. He is a strident foe of the
federal government's efforts to cut off funding for terrorist
organizations, including efforts by Holder's department. Zogby's address barely touched on the significance of the Civil Rights Act
The federal deficit this year will total $1.58 trillion, a senior White
House official said late Wednesday. That's three times more red ink
than last year.
Link to VA Vets' booklet: Your
Life, Your Choices
Last year, bureaucrats at the VA's National Center for Ethics in Health
Care advocated a 52-page end-of-life planning document, "Your Life,
Your Choices." It was first published in 1997 and later promoted as the
VA's preferred living will throughout its vast network of hospitals and
nursing homes. After the Bush White House took a look at how this
document was treating complex health and moral issues, the VA suspended
its use. Under Obama, the VA has now
resuscitated "Your Life, Your Choices."
Obamacare
weight watchers: The health care reform bill approved by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and
Pensions Committee (HELP) would provide federal grants to state and local
governments and a “national network of community-based organizations” to
"promote healthy living and reduce disparities" and to monitor people's weight,
eating, exercise habits and other individual behaviors that affect health at the
community level
VIDEO:
White House Press Secretary Gibbs in testy exchange with the press over health
care
Obama is preparing to abandon attempts to broker bipartisan health care reform and
instead push through proposals using only the votes of Democrats.
A media consulting firm with ties to White House senior strategist David
Axelrod, AKPD Message and Media, founded by Axelrod and whose son still works
there, has been hired to produce a multi-million dollar ad campaign touting the
Obama administration's health care overhaul. Republicans are
questioning whether Axelrod stands to gain from the profits.
Hundreds of auto dealers in the New York area have withdrawn from the
government's Cash for Clunkers program, citing delays in getting reimbursed by
the government
"The list" for 8/18/2009
Obama's advisers acknowledged Tuesday that they were unprepared for the
intraparty rift that occurred over the fate of a proposed public health
insurance program, a firestorm that has left the White House searching for a way
to reclaim the initiative on the president's top legislative priority.
The inspector general in charge of overseeing the Treasury Department's
bank-bailout program says TARP could end up costing taxpayers
almost $24 trillion
David
Axelrod implicated in conflict of interest with his old firm and the White House-
Axelrod was president and sole shareholder of AKPD from 1985 until he
sold his interest after Obama’s victory, government records show. The firm owes Axelrod $2 million, which it’s due to pay in installments beginning Dec. 31. Axelrod’s son, Michael,
still works there. He didn’t return a phone call. The firm’s Web site
continues to feature David Axelrod’s work on the Obama campaign.
The White House declined to comment Tuesday about a letter sent by the American
Civil Liberties Union asking why President Obama is refusing to make public
information about the detainees imprisoned at the US military’s Bagram Airfield
in Afghanistan
VIDEO:
video of Fox News' Shepherd Smith grilling White House Spokesman Bill Burton on
the shifting positions of the White House on whether a "Public Option" is a
"must" or just "preferred" as part of his Health Care Plan.
Obama's assistant for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, John O.
Brennan calls for appeasing terrorists: "Even as we condemn and oppose the illegitimate tactics used by terrorists, we
need to acknowledge and address the legitimate needs and grievances of ordinary
people those terrorists claim to represent."
Obama claim that
62% of all bankruptcies caused by medical debt proven untrue in speech before
house subcomittee
Letter
to Obama from the President of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons:
Expresses "our profound disappointment with your recent comments"
EPA
says it will toss artifacts from historic 18th century fort into a landfill
The president's liberal allies on health care reform have a message for the
president: Don't think you can drop the public option without a fight. ""If the president thinks we're gonna get the votes without the public option,
he's got another thing coming," "We've got a tire track on our chests"
The White House is blaming the controversy over its Web site and mass e-mails on
viral rumors, "fear-mongering" and "sinister conspiracy theories"
The
first lady now requires 26 servants
"The list" for 8/17/2009
The
first lady now requires 26 servants
VIDEO:
Obama: Post Office Has Problems, FedEx Fine
Postal
service fires back at Obama comments at town hall
Obama official
Sebellius wants end-of-life counceling in health care bill
PhRMA-gate....PhRMA's
note to its clients
Email
surfaces between the White House and PhRMA outlining a four-part deal that industry lobbyists were sending to each other on
July 7.
Obama says a proposed overhaul of the nation's
health care system is not going to change how veterans get their medical
services.
Following a furor over how the data would be used, the White House has shut down
an electronic tip box — flag@whitehouse.gov —
The Obama administration has filed court papers claiming a federal marriage law
discriminates against gays, even as it continues to defend the law.
Obama's
myspace page says his age is 52, not 48. This would make his birth in
Hawaii at the time it was a territory, not a state.
"The list" for 8/16/2009
Chrysler Group is planning to produce Fiat 500 subcompact at a Chrysler plant in Mexico, the Wall Street Journal
reported
Union
members pack Obama town halls. Members of the nation's labor unions have made up a hefty segment of the
audiences that flocked to town halls Obama held in the past week, and they
have played an even larger role in a nationwide campaign for an insurance
overhaul. Financially, and with boots on the ground, unions have become the
backbone of the president's effort.
The federal government has only reimbursed auto dealers for 2 percent of the
claims they've submitted through the popular "cash for clunkers" program, a
Pennsylvania congressman said, calling on the Obama administration to help speed
up the process. Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., called for "immediate action" to address the problem
in a statement Sunday, after writing a letter to Obama
expressing his concerns.
VIDEO:
Fox News report with Major Garrett over White House denials over "email-gate"White
house issues public statement
VIDEO:
A nasty exchange with Major Garrett of Fox news and White House Press
secretary Robert Gibbs
An administration official said tonight that Health and Human Services Secretary
Kathleen Sebelius "misspoke" when she told CNN this morning that a government
run health insurance option "is not an essential part" of reform
The White House for the first time Sunday seemed to acknowledge that people
across the country received unsolicited e-mails from the administration last
week about health care reform, suggesting the problem is with third-party groups
that placed the recipients' names on the distribution list.- passing the blame
for the emails
The White House says that it will change its e-mail sign-up
procedures after recipients of a health-care e-mail complained that they
had not asked to receive updates.
VIDEO:
White House press secretary Gibbs re town hall meeting protests, "good TV, and that's about it,"
The Obama administration, in a major shift on housing policy, is abandoning
George W. Bush’s vision of creating an “ownership society’’ and instead plans to
pump $4.25 billion of economic stimulus money into creating tens of thousands of
federally subsidized rental units in American cities.
Obama
uses Op-Ed piece in the New York Times to criticize the health insurance industry
Corpus
Christi gets 200 million in stimulus cash, the money should create close to 2,000 jobs, based on White House formulas.... job creation numbers likely are “severely inflated,” said
Jason Alaniz, the city’s intergovernmental relations project manager in
charge of stimulus projects
Obama's health secretary is suggesting the White House
is ready to accept nonprofit insurance cooperatives instead of a
government-run public option in a health overhaul plan. A Republican
senator says that is worth looking at.
Obama is under serious pressure to study the possibility of an Israeli military
strike against Iran. An Egyptian official said the pressure does not only come from Israel but
also from Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia that are at odds with Iran and its
Shiite theocracy
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said she hopes the final
reform package will include measures to encourage end-of-life counseling –
despite the controversy such a proposal has caused in recent weeks. “I
am hoping at the end of the day it will be in the package,”
Obama
invokes grandmother's death to support ObamaCare, but failed to attend her
funeral service
Obama's Twenty Ninth Week in
Office
Latest Additions to "The List"
"The list" for 8/15/2009
Obama's
NASA panel says no trips to the moon for 20 years. The Human Space Flight Plans Committee
headed by Obama space czar, retired aerospace executive Norman Augustine, says
NASA doesn't have nearly enough money to meet its goal of putting astronauts back on the moon by 2020
The Obama administration has announced plans to lift a
government ban on tracking visitors to government websites, and
potentially, collect their personal data through the use of "cookies" –
an effort some suspect may already be in place on White House sites.
A
"Death Panel" already exists in the "Federal Coordinating Council
for Comparitive Effectiveness Research. -Tom Daschle stated the
purpose (and
therefore Obama's purpose) for creating the Council is to create an
unelected bureaucracy to perform health care rationing
that elected politicians are not permitted to make.
Recovery Act Allocates $1.1 Billion for Comparative Effectiveness Research
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced the members
of the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research.
Authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the new Council
will help coordinate research and guide investments in comparative effectiveness
research funded by the Recovery Act.
The
White House and drug companies are at odds again. The drug companies are
refusing to reduce rights to exclusive drug data
VIDEO:
Dealers say that government slows payments for "cash for clunkers"
VIDEO:
A student asked Obama "how in the world a private corporation" such as an
Insurance Company can compete with an entity like the Federal Government who
does not have to pay property taxes and is not subject to regulation?
Obama:
"There is no perfect, painless silver bullet out there that solves everyone's
problem, that gives everyone perfect health care for free. I wish there was,"
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair is pushing back against key
elements of the Obama administration's financial overhaul plan, saying they
wouldn't survive in Congress and calling her own alternatives more viable.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Bair said Congress won't
approve two major parts of the package: Expanding the Federal Reserve's
authority to regulate the largest financial companies and giving a proposed new
consumer protection agency examination and enforcement powers over banks.
Major
internet carriers are refusing stimulus cash
"The list" for 8/14/2009
VIDEO:
Obama says he saved 700 jobs a month for Montana- meaing 700,000
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and
prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has uncovered
documents from the Treasury Department related to the government's
bailout of insurance giant American International Group (AIG)
The Obama administration has approved a Sept. 20 peace concert in
Havana's Revolution Square by Colombian rocker Juanes, who lives in Key
Biscayne and is one of Latin music's hottest artists. US Cubans are very upset
VIDEO:
Obama says people are being "held hostage" by their health insurance companies.
VIDEO:
Obama repeats false claim that AARP support his policy in Montana
Part of the controversial health care reform proposal in Congress that discusses
"end-of-life" counseling and medical procedures that could be rationed based on
the age of the patient and other factors was written by suicide advocates who
argue openly for the "right" to death, according to reports.
Statement
from the American College of Surgeons Regarding Recent comments by President
Obama: "deeply disturbed over the uninformed public comments "
VIDEO:
Foermer Democratic pollster and Fox News contributor Pat Caddell Calls for
an investigation of Rahm Emanuel.and Emanuel’s past shady financial dealings.
VIDEO:
Obama, "...There are going to be demagogues out there who try to suggest that any
form of pathway for legalization for those who are already in the
United States is unacceptable. And those are fights that I'd have to
have if my poll numbers are at 70 or if my poll numbers are at 40"
Obama
Healthcare plan to give Union failing pension plans $10 Billion. (House bill
page 65, section 164)
Obama's
proposal to create a potent rate-setting body modeled, the Medicare Payment
Advisory Commission is meeting resistance from lawmakers, doctors, hospitals
and even some advocates for older Americans. Obama’s proposal would transform the agency, known as Medpac, which has just 36 employees and a budget of $10.5 million
Obama's
Democratic allies have dropped a controversial proposal for "end of life"
discussions with doctors after Republicans claim that Americans would face "death
panels".
White
House Advisor Zeke Emanual tries to tap dance around his own writings
The
Obama administration redacts contract details for Recovery.gov. Software company,
Smartronix landed an $18 million contract to build a Web site where taxpayers
could easily track billions in federal stimulus money. It was to bring
transparency to stimulus spending, After
weeks of prodding by ProPublica and other organizations, the General
Services Administration released copies of the contract and related
documents that are so heavily blacked out they are virtually worthless
VIDEO:
ABC news: Experts who track hate groups across the U.S. are growing increasingly
concerned over violent rhetoric targeted at President Obama, especially
as the debate over health care intensifies and a pattern of threats
emerges.
After a testy exchange Thursday between FOX News' Major Garrett and White House spokesman Robert Gibbs
over an e-mail list, the White House said it would review some of the names of recipients to determine how they ended up
on the distribution list.
In an attempt to push back against the "lies and
distortions" circulating about healthcare, the White House is launching
its own chain email.
"The list" for 8/13/2009
VIDEO:
Congressman Leonard Boswell (D-Des Moines, Iowa) says Obama told him he is willing
to be a one term president for health plan
Daniel
Kurtzer, President Obama's Mideast adviser, is the lead candidate to
serve as U.S. ambassador to Syria, a senior Egyptian security official
told WND.
Kurtzer,
a former U.S. ambassador to Israel, long has been seen in Jerusalem as
one of the Jewish state's greatest foes in Washington. He has been
identified by Jewish and Israeli leaders, including prime ministers
speaking on the record, as biased against Israel and is notorious for
urging extreme concessions from the Jewish state.
Obama's nominee for surgeon general, Dr. Regina Benjamin, whose job it is to help
encourage Americans to get thinner and healthier, has been working part
time as a scientific adviser to the fast-food giant that sells
sandwiches like the Whopper and BK Triple Stacker."
-
Burger King.
The Pentagon presented a grim portrait of the Afghanistan war
Thursday, offering no assurances about how long Americans will be
fighting there or how many U.S. combat troops it will take to win. Defeating the Taliban and al-Qaida will take "a few years," Defense Secretary Robert Gates said
Planned Parenthood
President Cecile Richards attended a special White House health care meeting.
The president of the nation's largest abortion business went to what she called
a "special meeting" at the White House about health care reform. This
is the second time the Obama administratin gave special privilages to Planned
Parenthood
White
House health czar Zeke Emanuel on Sarah Palin’s Accusation of 'Death Panels': 'It’s An Absolute Outrage'
US order to reduce civilian casualties protects Afghans but frustrates, slows Marines
A close aide to Hillary Rodham Clinton
dismissed as "psychobabble" the fuss over the secretary of state's
barbed response to a questioner asking for her famous husband's opinion
instead of her own. Clinton ignored questions about the episode as she
wound down a marathon African trip Thursday.
VIDEO:
FOX News' Major Garrett sparred with Robert Gibbs over emails people
are receiving about health care when they never signed up for them.
White House adviser David Axelrod is apparently behind this effort
VIDEO:
Robert Gibbs goes off message claiming that the the Townhall meetings
we've been seeing on TV are not indicative of what's going on in
America.
Top Obama economic advisor of Obama, Larry Summers, held a stock
position in the economic advisory firm of Nouriel Roubini, Roubini Global
Economics, which he sold before joining the White House. Summer's spokesman,
Matt Vogel, confirmed to me that Summers did hold the stock position and that he
did not pay for it but received the stock as compensation for advisory work he
provided to RGE. Roubini is known on Wall Street as "Dr. Doom" for his
generally pessimistic view of the economy.
The Obama administration will work with the United Nations to fight terrorism
and other major world challenges, U.S. envoy Susan Rice said on Wednesday,
marking a clear shift from the Bush administration's disregard for the world
body.
Mark Lloyd, newly appointed Chief Diversity Officer of the Federal
Communications Commission, has called for making private broadcasting companies
pay licensing fees equal to their total operating costs to allow public
broadcasting outlets to spend the same on their operations as the private
companies do.
"The list" for 8/12/2009
In July 2009, action by the Federal Bureau of Reclamation to protect threatened fish stopped irrigation pumping to parts of the California Central Valley causing canals leading into Huron, California
and the surrounding areas and the farms that rely on them to lose their
primary irrigation source. Unemployment has reached 40% in some areas
as the farms have dried up
A U.S. military lawyer for a Kuwaiti detainee held at the American
prison at Guantanamo Bay charged on Wednesday the Obama administration
was hampering his efforts to clear his client's name
Facing a barrage of questions Wednesday over the friendliness of the
audience at President Obama's New Hampshire town hall meeting, the
White House insisted that all questions were selected at random --
including one from an 11-year-old girl whose mother worked as an Obama
organizer
A Democratic Congresswoman,
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Cali.), admitted to her California constituents
gathered at a town-hall meeting what the Obama administration has tried
desperately to keep quiet: the health care reform bill covers abortion
Van Jones,
a founding board member of Color of Change, an extremist racial
grievance group that tries to stir up racial antagonism in order to
promote a socialist agenda and now Obama's controversial green jobs czar --a self-described “rowdy black
nationalist” and "communist"-- is a co-founder of the same
unsavory left-wing pressure group that is urging an advertiser boycott
of Glenn Beck's TV show after Beck did several unflattering news
packages on the czar
New
questions arise about Vivek Kundra, Obama’s appointee for the
position of Chief Information. John
Dvorak, who writes columns for Dow Jones and PC Magazine, tried verifying
Kundra’s education background, which included an advanced degree from the
University of Maryland and employment there as an instructor. Dvorak says
records don’t substantiate those claims. The White House vehemently denies it,
however, and another source says Dvorak got it wrong:
The federal deficit climbed higher into record territory in July, hitting $1.27
trillion with two months remaining in the budget year
USA Today fact-checks Obama’s town-hall assertions
on a number of assertions made by Barack Obama at his 8/11/2009 Portsmouth, NH
forum.
The Swiss and U.S. governments announced a
deal Wednesday to settle American demands for the identities of
suspected tax dodgers, despite Switzerland's vaunted bank secrecy. But
they kept all details under wraps, including how many of the 52,000
names sought by the IRS from banking giant UBS AG will be revealed.