The List: Obama's Seventy Third Week in Office

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Obama's Seventy Third Week in Office

British Petroleum-gate

The List" for 6/17/2010

VIDEO: Obama Breaks His Word to Arizona Governor Jan Brewer-  Obama: We'll get back to you within 2 weeks. Greta: Have you heard anything from the President? Governor Brewer: "We've not heard a word"..

The deepwater drilling experts that President Obama consulted on his drilling ban and referenced in his announcement of the ban are now saying that they recommended nothing of the sort.

Today, the Coast Guard stopped oil skimming vessels that were hired by the state of Louisiana...because they couldn't verify if the ships had life preservers and fire extinguishers.

The Obama administration is secretly working with Russia to conclude an agreement that many officials fear will limit U.S. missile defenses, a key objective of Moscow since it opposed plans for a U.S. missile defense interceptor base in Eastern Europe, according to American officials involved in arms control issues.  According to the officials, the administration last month presented a draft agreement on missile defenses to the Russians as part of talks between Ellen Tauscher, undersecretary of state for international security and arms control, and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Rybakov.  The secret talks and possible agreement have triggered alarm among pro-missile defense advocates who are concerned that the administration, in its effort to "reset" ties with Moscow, will make further concessions constraining current and future missile defenses.

Almost 62,000 acres in portions of the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison national forests will gain special protection under the San Juan Wilderness Act, which was approved Wednesday by the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources. The bill was introduced by Rep. John Salazar

Obama's oil commission has no oil industry or technology experts, but has of environmentalists and lawyers

Obama is asking Congress to set aside $15 million for the commission he recently named to look into the causes of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and make recommendations on the future of offshore drilling.

Documents obtained from the Department of Energy and elsewhere appear to present a prima facie case of a senior Obama administration official, Assistant Secretary of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Cathy Zoi, participating substantially in decisions impacting companies in which she is heavily invested. This flouts ethics requirements and would be a violation of U.S. criminal law. The Department of Energy has yet to provide additional requested documents regarding Zoi. Even more troubling, the designated ethics officer has so far refused to even acknowledge the request for records she is required by law to provide the public.

You'll Pay the Price for Health Insurance, or Pay the Penalty-..."The penalty...will be levied on people who don't have health insurance starting in 2014.  In 2016, when the penalty is fully phased in, it will be $695 for an individual (up to $2,085 per family) or 2.5 percent of household income, whichever is greater. The penalty will increase annually based on the cost of living."

Top Six Obama  Mistruths From National Energy Address

The List" for 6/16/2010

Obama's Muslim outreach is faltering. It's been a year since Obama addressed the Islamic world in Cairo,according to a new poll, the Muslim world has not exactly grasped his extended hand. In fact, Muslims have lost confidence in Obama over the past year, the poll found.

Vice President Joe Biden says it's "outrageous," "astounding" and "incredibly out of touch" for a GOP congressman to criticize the White House for demanding a BP victims' compensation fund

VIDEO: Clinton: Obama Administration To Sue Arizona Over Immigration Law

The feds awarded a staggering $54 million in stimulus funds to Connecticut's politically-connected Mohegan Indian tribe, which runs one of the highest grossing casinos in the country

Test your knowledge of ObamaCare

Report: Governor Mitch Daniels, Indiana American Enterprise Institute

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels talked about the impact of ObamaCare on his state before a standing-room-only conference  at AEI on Tuesday, and the outlook is not good. He described "what this cannon looks like from the receiving end" and said his state is reeling from the expected costs -- as much as $3.6 billion in additional costs to comply with ObamaCare's mandates.

Currently enjoying a relaxing California vacation , Michelle Obama and daughter Sasha arrived at the extravagant beachside mansion of billionaire financial mogul, Howard Marks

68 banks - all "too big to fail" 18 months ago- are at least two quarters behind in the repayment of their TARP funding

EPA classifies milk as oil, forcing costly rules on farmers

The Obama administration more than doubled spending on cycling and walking initiatives to $1.2 billion last year as it seeks to coax Americans out of their cars. The new focus on biking and walking represents a turnaround from the administration of President George W Bush. Mary Peters, transportation

secretary under Bush, dismissed biking paths and trails as projects that "really are not transportation," saying they had no place in federal transportation policy.

A combined audience of 32 million viewers on 11 channels tuned in Tuesday night for Obama's first address from the Oval Office. As large as that audience might sound, it was down 33 percent from his first State of the Union talk on January 27, 2010. It was also down 21 percent from his prime-time address on December 1, 2009

Obama: we’re running out of places to drill on land and in shallow water.

Alaska Objects to Obama Administration Plan to Set-Aside California-Sized Polar Bear Habitat

House Republicans press Sebelius on ‘numerous’ missed deadlines under Obama health-care law- Key Republican lawmakers are pressing President Obama’s top health-care official for answers on why the administration has missed “numerous” early deadlines in implementing Obamacare. The missed deadlines “are some of the most basic provisions of this law,” the June 16 letter says, the administration’s “failure to meet these deadlines does not bode well for the [law’s] more complicated provisions.”

The name of President Obama came into play this afternoon at the political corruption trial of former governor Rod Blagojevich as an associate of political fund-raiser Tony Rezko testified that Rezko asked him to write a $10,000 check to Friends of Obama.

VIDEO: Obama's Oval Office speech was so similar to Jimmy Carter's Malaise speech, they almost seamlessly fit together.

Toxic BP Oil Spill Fumes Will Cause Death & Cancer – Government & BP Negligent In Alerting Public

Did the Obama EPA turn away the Dutch offer for help because of a moronic rule?- The U.S. Government has apparently reconsidered a Dutch offer to supply 4 oil skimmers. Water pumped into the tanker will settle to the bottom of the tanker and is then pumped back into the ocean to make room for more oil. Each system will collect 5,000 tons of oil each day.  The Dutch offered to fly their skimmer arm systems to the Gulf 3 days after the oil spill started. The offer was apparently turned down because EPA regulations do not allow water with oil to be pumped back into the ocean. If all the oily water was retained in the tanker, the capacity of the system would be greatly diminished because most of what is pumped into the tanker is sea water.

Top Six Obama Mistruths From National Energy Address

VIDEO: CBS' Mark Knoller asks White House press secretary Gibbs if any ass-kicking took place at today's meeting between Obama and BP

Obama takes cuts off money to build the Egypt-Gaza wall and gives it to Fatah

Ken Feinberg: the ‘Walter Cronkite’ of the BP Oil Spill

VIDEO: Obama says $20 billion BP has committed to is not a "cap." "BP will meet their obligations" to the people of the gulf, he said. "Another important element is that this $20 billion fund will not be controlled by BP or the government." Obama said the escrow account will be executed by an impartial third party. Ken Feinberg will run the BP escrow account. (Ken Feinberg is not an "impartial" third party. He has previously worked for the Obama administration in the Treasury department. His job was to oversee the compensation of top executives at companies which have received federal bailout assistance.)

Obama and BP reached agreement Wednesday on a $20 billion fund to compensate victims of the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and the giant British company's chairman apologized to America for the worst spill in U.S. history

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer scolded Atty. Gen. Eric Holder for holding open the prospect of a lawsuit when Arizona is already facing five legal challenges over the state's new immigration law. "I would much prefer for them not to file suit, given the fact that they could take the money and help me build a fence on my border,"

The Obama ban on drilling in the Gulf is estimated to cost 120,000 people their jobs

Clinton administration Justice Department official, Jamie Gorelick, whose name was floated as a possible attorney general pick for Obama represents BP in meeting with Obama.  BP agrees to a 20 billion dollar fund for victims.

May 2010- New Jersey, the private sector lost 3,600 jobs, while the Obama White House census dept. provided most of the 11,200 public sector jobs

The Dutch say Obama did not call for the skimmers

The U.S. Government has apparently reconsidered a Dutch offer to supply 4 oil skimmers.

      Obama BP meeting: No Interior Secretary, but lots of lawyers

Passing an energy bill will be Obama's top legislative priority this summer, White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton said

VIDEO: Sen. Mitch McConnell says Obama is "holding the Gulf hostage" in order to promote a national energy tax (known as cap and trade).

Obama uses Oil Disaster to Promote Costly Environmental Legislation

Obama is the first American President to hold a press conference with no American Flag in sight

Picture: Obama's recent press conference- no American flag

In assuring Americans on Tuesday that BP won't control the compensation fund for Gulf oil spill recovery, President Barack Obama failed to mention that the government won't control it, either. That means it's anyone's guess whether the government can, in fact, make BP pay all costs related to the spill.

White House --BP Meeting to last a few hours but Obama will only be there 15 minutes, waited 58 days to meet the CEO of BP

A Republican effort to repeal Obamacare overhaul fails on a largely partisan vote.

The List" for 6/15/2010

Obama's schedule shows him spending just 20 minutes in the meeting with BP executives

New Obama "oil spill czar": Thad Allen was officially designated the “National Incident Commander of the Unified Command for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico” (45 czars now)

Issa Plans Showdown over White House E-mail and Tech Lapses; With the administration under fire for a range of ethical lapses from some of its top technology officials, a key Obama aide is scheduled to appear before a congressional oversight panel June 24 to discuss the tricky privacy and security issues new technologies present the federal government.

Obama’s oil drilling moratorium will cost tens of thousands of American jobs. But, not everyone will suffer. Oil companies are planning on moving their rigs from the Gulf of Mexico to South America off the coast of Brazil where the government is more friendly to energy corporations.

Obama has signed into law a bill that makes more money available to the Coast Guard to pay for its response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The new law removes the $100 million limit that the Coast Guard can spend on the BP spill from a government trust fund used to pay cleanup costs.

Obama says the nation will continue to fight the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico for "as long as it takes," but he vows that BP will pay for the damage it's caused.

The Obama administration says a climate and energy bill being pushed in the Senate would cost American households 22 to 40 cents a day, less than the cost of a postage stamp.

O bama Appoints Lawyer to Overhaul Oil Drilling Agency- The White House announced Tuesday that a former assistant U.S. attorney and Justice Department inspector general, Michael Bromwich, will lead a planned reorganization of the Minerals Management Service. The administration wants to break the MMS into three separate entities to eliminate conflicts of interest.

VIDEO: group of students affirming together that they can do anything because, “I am an Obama scholar.”

Pro-Abortion Group NARAL Solidly Supporting Elena Kagan for Supreme Court

VIDEO: Obama uses teleprompters to make remarks about the gulf oil disaster and military at the Naval Air Technical Training Center in Pensacola, Florida.

Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the UN and member of Barack Obama's cabinet, opened the door for the possibility of an international investigation into the U.S. military

The U.S. State Department is marking lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender “Pride Month” by changing its policy concerning gender change on passports and consular reports of birth abroad. As of June 10, the State Department no longer requires that individuals provide proof that they have had sex reassignment surgery, but only requires certification from an “attending physician” that the individual received “appropriate clinical treatment for gender transition,”

Obama is poised to seize the handling of oil spill damage claims from BP, his chief spokesman said Tuesday, as Obama sought to reassure people he's up to the enormous challenge of helping them recover from the environmental disaster. He will outline his specific plans and expectations in a prime-time Oval Office speech.

Obama, in his televised speech to the nation Tuesday, will announce the creation of an oil recovery “czar” to oversee progress in siphoning crude from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill

The List" for 6/14/2010

Union Contract Can Exempt Health Plan From ObamaCare

White House moves to keep employers from dropping insurance- outlined broad new rules designed to prevent employers from dropping health insurance benefits for their workers or shifting huge new costs onto them

Companies that offer employee health insurance expect another steep jump in medical costs next year, and more will ask workers to share a  bigger chunk of the expense, according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers report.

The Obama Administration handed out more than $400 million in awards to federal employees last year, up by more than $80 million from the prior year, according to new government data

Eight weeks into the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of the Mexico, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has told the National Guard that there's no time left to wait for BP, so they're taking matters into their own hands. In Fort Jackson, La., Jindal has ordered the Guard to start building barrier walls right in the middle of the ocean.

The Obama administration on Monday announced new rules it said would protect Americans who want to keep their current health insurance but critics say the changes could end up causing millions to lose their coverage.  Part of Obama's healthcare overhaul, the new regulations are meant to discourage companies from making major changes in health insurance benefits.

Obama uses the Gulf Oil spill disaster to fundraise

Despite a resolution by Congress authorizing war against those responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks, President Obama’s nominee to be the number two official at the Justice Department, James Cole, wrote an op-ed in 2002 likening the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon to the domestic crimes of murder, rape and child abuse, while arguing that the attackers ought to be treated like domestic criminals.

John P. Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Obama’s top science adviser, said last week that his past work is a “stale topic” and: “If you read it and you have a problem, you’re misreading it.”

Obama's membership in Gay Man's Club

Blago once offered Holder a $300K job....Blagojevich wanted to hire Holder to a $300,000 special investigator’s position, so that he would dispel allegations by state Attorney General Lisa Madigan,D, that Emerald Casino was tied to the mafia.   Holder appeared with Blagojevich at a March 24, 2004 press conference. Nearly five years later, he failed to mention the event in a 47-page questionnaire he submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee five days after Blago’s arrest, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

Secretary of State Clinton included the U.S. for the first time on the State Department’s list of nations “trafficking in persons” for forced labor ranging from farm workers to pole dancers and prostitutes.

ObamaCare appears to have one grandfathered standard for labor unions and another standard for everyone else.  Unions that had a health plan under a collective bargaining agreement by March 23, 2010, can switch insurers as long as the collective bargaining deal is in effect and not forfeit the grandfathered exemptions from many ObamaCare provisions. But anyone else — large business, small business, individual — who switches carriers loses their grandfathered status.

John Podesta of the Center for American Progress is nearly scripting the White House’s BP response, according to Jonathan Weisman at the Wall Street Journal in a blog post

Kagan Helped Bill Clinton Cover Up Scandals

You're losing your plan ObamaCare's true face emerges

Was the White House involved in the Israeli Flotilla incident?  Speculation grows of White House involvement to create an event to force Israel to capitulate to Obama concessions.  Implications of a conspiracy.

" David Axelrod, senior White House adviser, said on NBC's "Meet the Press," that Democrats are mounting a large scale midterm effort to ensure the party maintains control of the House and Senate. "They have rooted for failure," Axelrod said of Republicans. "They have contributed nothing." Axelrod said Democrats have a strong record of casting "courageous votes."

The List" for 6/13/2010

NASA has begun to wind down construction of the rockets and spacecraft that were to have taken astronauts back to the Moon — effectively dismantling the US human spaceflight programme despite a congressional ban on its doing so.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said he had a one-on-one meeting with Obama, in which President Obama told him that he was still a Muslim, the son of a Muslim father, the stepson of Muslim stepfather, that his half brothers in Kenya are Muslims, and that he was sympathetic towards the Muslim agenda.

Obama White House cavalier toward technology policies aimed at preventing abuses of Presidential Records Act

The former Honolulu elections clerk who says President Obama was "definitely" not born in Hawaii and has no birth certificate from any hospital in the Aloha State says he's willing to testify in court to those facts.

As an aide in the Clinton White House, Elena Kagan steeped herself in details of the Ruby Ridge controversy, an issue that Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania had zeroed in on as he sought the Republican presidential nomination.

As Supreme Court justice, Kagan would be forced to sit out some big cases, muddying outcome

Obama plans to use a meeting with BP executives this week to demand that they create and fund an escrow account and accept an independent panel to handle damage claims by individuals and businesses hurt by the Gulf disaster

Obama's radical associations go ignored by press

Reuters is reporting that Brazil stands to benefit from the BP oil spill disaster as the US moratorium makes more rigs available for other countries.

The Federal Aviation Administration banned flights over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and affected coastline this week

The List" for 6/12/2010

Obama has refused to waive the Jones Act. His Administration keeps putting the blame on the Coast Guard who puts the blame on others for not requesting the Jones Act be waived.

Barack Obama: I’m not anti-British

Internal White House documents reveal that 51% of employers may have to relinquish their current health care coverage by 2013 due to ObamaCare. That numbers soars to 66% for small-business employers.

:Executive Order-- Establishing the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council

Obama- :Executive Order-- Establishing the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council: Sec. 5. details the President's "National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy," the Council will be charged with carrying out "lifestyle behavior modification" among American citizens that do not exhibit "healthy behavior."

Obama urged reluctant lawmakers Saturday to quickly approve nearly $50 billion in emergency aid to state and local governments, saying the money is needed to avoid "massive layoffs of teachers, police and firefighters" and to support the still-fragile economic recovery

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) said Thursday he was aware the White House had urged Andrew Romanoff not to challenge him in a primary

For four years as a White House lawyer and aide, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan had a hand in many of the major issues that drove and vexed the Clinton administration.

Obama is sticking with his tried and true play-the-victim-then-blame-others approach. In an interview on Friday, he claimed that criticism of his handling of the situation is unfair because if he had tried to prevent the spill from happening, his political opponents would not have let him.

Coast Guard Head Was Informed of Maine Oil Boom on 5/21. Yesterday, He Claimed He Didn’t Know

The List" for 6/11/2010

US officials on Friday denied reports that the Obama administration plans to support the establishment of an international UN-monitored commission to investigate last week's flotilla raid.

Obama said Friday that some members of Congress should share the blame for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Kagan Ignored Medical Group's Opinion to Keep Partial-Birth Abortions Legal

Obama could have issued a waiver to accept foreign help on the Gulf oil spill, but did not. Still has not. Is he protecting the unions?

Over and over in the health care debate, Obama said people who like their current coverage would be able to keep it. But an early draft of an administration regulation estimates that many employers will be forced to make changes to their health plans under the new law. In just three years, a majority of workers—51 percent—will be in plans subject to new federal requirements, according to the draft.

VIDEO: Obama on the spill: “I can’t suck it up with a straw”

Kagan knee-deep in Clinton-era Whitewater, Paula Jones scandals: docs

Sessions: Clinton library withholding documents on Kagan- The top Republican overseeing the panel responsible for vetting Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan complained Friday that documents on her record were being withheld. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said that the presidential library of former President Bill Clinton was not producing records of Kagan's time in the Clinton White House quickly enough, and was withholding some material from the committee.

Kagan role in Clinton sex harassment suit withheld

EDITORIAL: FTC dodges Drudge Tax questions

A new study by a former head of the Congressional Budget Office says that ObamaCare would make dropping employees' insurance the sensible choice for the employers of up to 35 million workers

Obamacare: Cadillac Health Plan Tax to Penalize Majority of Employers by 2018

According to a study done by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, ObamaCare’s $5 billion early-retiree reinsurance program could exhaust its funding well before the program expires at the end of 2013 -- and, in the long run, it would provide strong incentives for employers to drop coverage for early retirees.

Gays and Lesbians in the White House

Obamacare to cut Medicare Advantage: The White House is launching its latest campaign to resell ObamaCare, helped by $125 million that unions and other interest groups say they'll spend to make Americans love their new entitlement. -"First and foremost," Obama told seniors on Tuesday in Wheaton, Maryland, "what you need to know is that the guaranteed Medicare benefits that you've earned will not change, regardless of whether you receive them through Medicare or Medicare Advantage.", nothing about that sentence is true.  Obamacare cuts will virtually destroy the program.  Enrollments are predicted to deline over 50%

Obama Administration to Support Anti-Israel Resolution at UN Next Week

Vermont has asked 2,800 low-income seniors, for whom they had already covered prescription drug costs, to return the new Obama Medicare rebate checks to state government

Obama Orders Dance Classes, Movie Nights, and Bingo for Illegal Detainees

A Daily Caller investigation reveals a cavalier attitude at the Obama White House toward longstanding safeguards designed to prevent abuses of the Presidential Records Act and other laws – including acts that carry serious legal implications.

President attended fundraiser during Gulf memorial service

Does Robert McChesney, a self-professed neomarxist media scholar and the founder of the lobbying group and think tank Free Press have influence over Obama's media policy?

Obama's Seventy Second Week in Office

[Nachum]

73 weeks of fun...
OK, you don't buy that?

73 weeks of flubs.

Yeah, that works better. Almost.

Let me know if you wish to be on or off this high volume, but very painful ping list. (Remeber, advil is your friend.)

Full record at the website (linked above)

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Your efforts are a treasure and GREATLY appreciated. Thanks Nachum!

[DallasDeb]

The entire list is ridiculous, but this one really takes the ludicrous "what are they smoking" cake:

EPA classifies milk as oil, forcing costly rules on farmers

[DallasDeb]

Oops.

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/06/epa_classifies_milk_as_oil_for.html

[Nachum]

The entire list is ridiculous

Reminds me of a joke...

Two Jews were about to be executed by firing squad in communist Russia. One of them screams in frustration:

Down with Stalin!

...after which the other Jew hissed

Shut up you fool! Do you want to get us in trouble!?

[JPG]

Two things that will always serve you well. 1. NEVER promise what you can't or won't deliver. 2. Treat other peoples time with as much respect as you treat your own.