The List, Obama's Seventy Sixth Week in Office

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Obama's Seventy Seventh Week in Office

The List" for 7/15/2010

Fake Obama numbers on jobs.  The White House economic team didn’t actually count how many people got a job thanks to the stimulus. Instead, the number is a projection that relies on the myth that a dollar of government spending creates up to 2.5 dollars of economic growth.

An American public relations firm with ties to President Obama has decided not to renew a contract to orchestrate a campaign aimed at breaking the blockade of the Gaza Strip after Jewish organisations expressed dismay at the arrangement. Fenton Communications - which boasts on its website that "we only represent causes we believe in ourselves" -- was being paid $240,000 for communications work this year for Al Fakhoora, a group that participated in the flotilla to Gaza. The money came from the office of Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, the second wife of the emir of Qatar.

Obama says he expects to be held accountable by people who can't find jobs, but he contends that voters will remember who caused the economic mess in the first place

The federal deficit has topped $1 trillion with three months still to go in the budget year

Obama administration may be on the verge of giving wealthy trial lawyers a special interest tax break worth $1.6 billion

The Democratic co-chair of President Obama’s fiscal commission said Wednesday that the president’s health care bill will do very little to bring down costs, contradicting claims from the White House that their sweeping legislation will dramatically impact runaway entitlement spending.

VIDEO: Carville Slams Obama Administration on Moratorium

VIDEO: Obama's new budget director Jacob Lew's fantasy about US business regulations in other countries: "Its important that other nations of the world do the same thing. They’d have to be similar rules around the world or else there will be a natural tendency for institutions to look for the places they would not have to comply with tougher standards."

Afghanistan War: U.S. Wounded Toll in 2010 Nearly Matches All of 2009

Obama hires AIG to regulate AIG.  Obama’s recent nominee for Deputy Attorney General, has worked as an independent consultant at AIG for the past five years

"Non-Political" Michelle Obama Obamacare preventative care guidelines

Officials in the Obama administration are scrambling to respond to evidence showing the new health care law President Barack Obama signed will fund elective abortions in Pennsylvania and New Mexico -- and possibly in more states. The Obama administration promises that won't happen.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday rejected a request from top White House adviser Valerie Jarrett to speak at a jobs summit hosted by the business group, the latest escalation in an ongoing war between the two camps. “We would have loved to have gone and participated. We weren’t invited. In fact we were told not to come,”

As Obama pushes for electric cars, most batteries are made in China

Who are the highest paid White House staffers? Rahm Emanuel: $172,000

The List" for 7/14/2010

The DOJ won't sue sanctuary cities

Europe’s disappointment with Barack Obama’s presidency is laid bare today as the EU’s most senior figure calls for a dramatic effort to revive transatlantic relations. The President of the European Commission told The Times that the new era at the White House was in danger of becoming a “missed opportunity” for Europe. José Manuel Barroso said that the EU-US relationship was “not living up to its potential” and was being marred by fundamental disagreements on how to deal with the economic crisis, climate change and trade reform. The feelings of a deepening rift are mutual.

FBI weblinks promote Ayers, Peltier

Obama's group, "organizing for America" encouraging their followers to download a "widget" to register new voters from their own personal blogs or websites.. Possible voter fraud or tampering?

The Obama administration on Wednesday will unveil new rules specifying which preventive health services will be free to consumers under the new health law. Cancer screenings, including mammograms and colonoscopies, as well as obesity prevention services, immunizations, blood pressure screenings and tobacco cessation services are among those that will be available to consumers without a copayment or other direct costs for consumers on new health plans after Sept. 23. Free preventive services are among the benefits that the White House is touting as it tries to show consumers that the health overhaul has tangible benefits.

In a rare divergence from administration policy, President Obama used the term "radical Islam" to describe the African-based terror group that took credit Monday for killing 74 people in Uganda during an interview Tuesday with the South African Broadcasting Corporation.

The day after revelations that the Obama administration allowed federal taxpayer funding of abortions under the new national health care law that was supposed to prevent it, new information shows President Barack Obama has authorized abortion funding in a second state: New Mexico

After earing criticism from business, Obama has photo op with Warren Buffett

Donald Berwick, recess-appointed by President Obama to head Medicare and Medicaid, is a well-known advocate of health care rationing and admirer of Britain's National Health Service will receive health care benefits for life by the board of directors of the Institute for Health Care Improvement, a nonprofit health care charitable organization he created

On the heels of news that the Obama administration is suing the state of Arizona over its new anti-illegal immigration law come news that the same treatment is being leveled at DuPage County, Illinois whose policies almost mirror the Arizona law

Obama’s controversial pick to run Medicare and Medicaid made his first public appearance Tuesday since he landed the job in a recess appointment, but he did not remain at the press conference long enough to take any questions from the news media.

New START and Obama’s Mysterious Trip to Russia

(Video) Black-Panthergate: Megyn Kelly on Black Panther Case & Ties To Obama

The Obama administration's stimulus push has saved or created about 3 million jobs and is on track to save an additional 500,000 by the end of the year, according to a new report by President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers.

"If you want proof that Obama's Executive Order on taxpayer-funded abortion was a sham, look no further than Pennsylvania", says House Republican Leader John Boehner (Ohio). Boehner and other Republicans point to reports that the Health and Human Services Department is giving Pennsylvania $160 million to set up a new high-risk insurance pool that will cover any abortion that is legal in the state.

Obamacare small town tragedy.  Doctors leave, Clinic turns into a “nurse practitioner delivery model."

The White House is disavowing a plan to have NASA conduct outreach to Muslim countries, but a congressman who talked to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden about that plan last month said the initiative was very real until somebody slammed the brakes on it. Rep. Pete Olson, ranking Republican on the Space and Aeronautics House Subcommittee, told FoxNews.com that Bolden described the outreach program as part of the administration's space plan during a conversation they had in June. "He confirmed it to me," Olson said.

Axelrod: ‘No Administration Has Been Tougher’ on Immigration Enforcement than Obama Administration

The List" for 7/13/2010

Obama disparaged al Qaeda and affiliated groups' willingness to kill Africans in a manner that White House aides say was an argument that the terrorist groups are racist.

AUDIO: Obama, Repeatedly saying "we/I will not rest until...

Tanzanian newpaper article reporting Obama not US born

An online newspaper based in Tanzania is reporting  that “Barack Abdallah Husein Obama,” the “first black US president,” was born outside of the United States- . ..But after political changes globally, and strengthening of democracy, things have changed in the US. We witnessed last year a senator with his origins from east Africa, Barack Abdallah Husein Obama, becoming the first black US president. He won the race on Democrat ticket and was sworn on January 20, 2009 as US president.

VIDEO: Holder blames politics for holding up 9/11 trial

A government document reveals that the Obama administration is planning to cut the U.S. nuclear stockpile by up to 40 percent by 2021.

VIDEO: Gibbs Explains Why Obamas Won't Vacation In Gulf

Witness: Rahm Emanuel asked me to call Blagojevich to say President Elect Barack Obama wanted Valerie Jarrett

Obama Admin OKs First Tax-Funded Abortions Under Health Care Law

Obama's aides are shrugging off warnings that proposed new financial regulations would be a jobs-killer, while pledging to continue reviewing those concerns. A White House official said Tuesday that the administration has held "countless meetings" with business leaders and agrees that "it is important to avoid unjustified regulatory costs and burdens."

VIDEO: Obama ridicules those who suggeted he might support teach sex education to Kindergardeners, at Planned Parenthood

Kindergarten Sex Ed plan Obama supports

Obama Supports Kindergarten Sex Ed

The White House and congressional Democrats, with the backing of the AARP, will soon put forth a plan to automatically enroll new private-sector employees in investment retirement accounts (IRAs).

White House senior adviser David Axelrod said it was “very clear” that President Barack Obama’s nomination of Dr. Donald Berwick to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services was going to be “dragged on and on” by Republicans, and with the “challenges” facing America’s health care system, it was “vitally important that we fill this position” without a Senate confirmation hearing.

White House denies NASA remark on Muslim outreach

The List" for 7/12/2010

Obama has rejected another Israeli request for advanced combat platforms. Diplomatic sources said Obama refused a request by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for Israeli access to a proposed stealth variant of the F-15E fighter-jet.

In response to a challenge from environmentalists, U.S. EPA has agreed to examine its air pollution rules for 28 industry sectors within the next eight years, setting the stage for review of the emissions control technologies used by large sectors including the paper, furniture and aerospace industries..

The economic damage from the BP Plc spill in the Gulf of Mexico will be dwarfed by the Obama administration’s moratorium on deep-water drilling

As the Obama's vacation in Maine: Michelle Obama in Fla.: 'There are still 1000s of miles of beaches not touched by the spill'

VIDEO: Mort Zuckerman admits he wrote one of Obama's speeches

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar issued revised rules on Monday for a six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico

White House science czar John Holdren has called for the U.S. to surrender sovereignty to a "planetary regime" armed with military power to enforce population limits upon nations and prevent perceived dangers from global eco-disasters

Most Transparent Administration Ever Makes Effective Reporting from Gulf a Felony

CBS's Schieffer Interviews Eric Holder, Ignores Black Panther Case

Michelle Obama Rouses NAACP Before Vote Condemning 'Racist' Elements of Tea Party

VIDEO:Eric Holder, "Still A Need For Dialogue" About Race

VIDEO: Michelle Obama, "America suffers from stubborn inequality"

Top GOP oversight official Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican, is broadening the scope of his investigation into technology-related ethics and legal problems for the White House to include Google – a company in possession of personal e-mails of many White House aides.

VIDEO: White House press secretary Robert Gibbs denies the NASA administrator was not tasked with improving Muslim relations.

FLASHBACK: Ridiculing it as "a silly question," Democrat Barack Obama pledged Wednesday he would resist any overtures to run for president or vice president before the end of his six-year term as a U.S. senator.

Attorney General Eric Holder on Sunday accused Democrats and Republicans in Congress of politicizing the trial of the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind, saying it "disturbs me a great deal" that their bickering has disrupted the administration's timetable for dealing with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-conspirators.

The List" for 7/11/2010

Obama's official Black Panther Fan Page

Obama at odds with Petraeus doctrine on 'Islam': The White House's official policy of banning the word "Islam" in describing America's terrorist enemies is in direct conflict with the U.S. military's war-fighting doctrine now guiding commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan. John O. Brennan, President Obama's chief national security adviser for counterterrorism, delivered a major policy address on defining the enemy. He laid out the White House policy of detaching any reference to Islam when referring to terrorists, be it al Qaeda, the Taliban or any other group. But Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, the man tapped by Mr. Obama as the new top commander in Afghanistan, led the production of an extensive counterinsurgency manual in December 2006 that does, in fact, tell commanders of a link between Islam and extremists. The Petraeus doctrine refers to "Islamic insurgents," "Islamic extremists" and "Islamic subversives." It details ties between Muslim support groups and terrorists. His co-author was Gen. James F. Amos, whom Mr. Obama has picked as the next Marine Corps commandant and Joint Chiefs of Staff member.

Attorney General Eric Holder, just days after filing a federal lawsuit against Arizona's immigration law, on Sunday floated the possibility of filing another suit on racial profiling grounds.

IRS: We don’t have the resources to handle ObamaCare

Despite promises to ‘not rest,’ President Obama to take third vacation since Gulf Coast oil spill began

Obama plays 9th round of golf since oil spill

Issa: Justice lawsuit against Arizona is a 'misuse of the Supremacy Clause'

VIDEO: Bartle Bull reacts to former DOJ attorney on Black Panther case "Obama is a hustler", States that 7 black panthers sat behind him during his tesitmony before congress

Holder: Disclosure of Oil Spill Probe Was ‘Appropriate’

The administration is focusing on helping its Hollywood pals make even more money. The Department of Homeland Security is stepping up its seizure of websites trafficking in illegal movie downloads

Holder: Ariz. Law Inconsistent with Federal Law

Attorney General Eric Holder says there's a real question about whether a terrorist suspect such as alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed can face the death penalty if he were to plead guilty before a military commission.

White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod on Sunday defended the administration's lawsuit against Arizona's immigration law, saying state laws such as the controversial one in the border state "dillute" federal efforts to secure the border.

Axelrod denies hiding Jarrett Senate talks: White House senior adviser David Axelrod is denying that aides to Barack Obama tried to cover up a conversation Obama reportedly had with a top union official about the possibility that then- Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-Ill.) might name Obama friend Valerie Jarrett to fill the senate seat Obama was vacating,  Axelrod said Sunday that the contact between Obama and Service Employees International Union official Tom Balanoff was encompassed in a report that Obama legal counsel Greg Craig issued in 2008, even though the conversation was not specifically described there.  "If you go back and look at the report that Greg Craig put out in December of 2008 for the administration or the soon-to-be administration, he acknowledged that the president spoke to people within his staff and to people outside," Axelrod said on ABC's "This Week."

David Axelrod; The departure of deepwater drilling rigs to other countries because of the moratorium the Obama Administration has imposed on oil exploration in the Gulf is unfortunate but not reason enough to allow drilling to restart

"No administration has been tougher on enforcement," Axelrod said on "Fox News Sunday." "We have more manpower there than ever before--more equipment drones, helicopters, airplanes. We're doing this in a smart, more efficient way and we're produing better results."

The List" for 7/10/2010

Russian spies quickly deported by Obama before they could be questioned by US intelligence agencies or FBI

Vice President Joe Biden had to convince a skeptical Jay Leno on Friday that the United States didn't get a raw deal from Russia in the biggest spy swap since the Cold War.

Obama's Financial Overhaul  Includes a Provision to Promote Diversity Hiring in Federal Agencies, Minority Hiring Quotas: Stirs Backlash

The Obama administration’s new approach to dealing with companies that hire illegal immigrants results in firings, not deportations, the New York Times reported Friday

VIDEO: New Black Panthers grateful to Holder for ‘payback time’

Obama again labeled the recession a result of "a decade of irresponsibility" that he inherited

Obama announces more post-traumatic stress help for vets; A senior official at the Department of Veterans Affairs said the agency doesn't expect the number of veterans receiving benefits for PTSD to rise dramatically, as most veterans with legitimate applications for benefits do eventually get claims. The goal is simply to make the claims process less cumbersome and time-consuming, said the official, who would speak only on condition of anonymity ahead of the VA's announcement.

Obamacare taxes wounded veterans for prosthetic devices and other medical devices

Digging into Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's past at dean of Harvard Law School has revealed a pattern of promoting and praising radical proponents of the homosexual agenda.

White House Envisioned Spy Case Swap Even Before Arrests

The List" for 7/9/2010

Republican Reps. Darrell Issa of California, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida and Chris Smith of New Jersey are calling for a probe to investigate whether Obama administration officials are violating federal law by using taxpayer money to lobby for a new constitution in Kenya that supports and legalizes abortion.

The State Department Friday expressed satisfaction with a U.N. Security Council statement condemning the sinking of a South Korean warship in March, though it stops short of directly blaming North Korea for the attack.

$490,000 in Federal Stimulus To Be Spent on Nevada Tree Planting, Tree-Care Classes

Obama to Abbas: I will make every effort to ensure Palestinian statehood-  U.S. President calls Abbas days after meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu to voice support for Palestinian leadership.

Mexican born political candidate forced to show birth document.  Demands Obama do the same.

Obama: ‘Absolutely clear’ economy is going in right directionObama said Friday his policies had pulled America out of the most vicious economic dive since the 1930s, setting battle lines for mid-term elections in November.

More damage control in a Friday afternoon news dump: The White House began deliberating a spy swap with Moscow nearly a month ago, well ahead of the arrests of 10 Russians in the United States less than two weeks ago, a White House official said Friday.

Oops.  Now Rahm Emanuel says Obama did make decision to deport the Russian Spies after saying the opposite before

Obama passes the buck: White House Says Intel/Law Enforcement Made Decision About 'Spy Swap'

The final version of Obama’s financial regulatory bill, hammered out in negotations between House and Senate Democrats, contains a provision that grants the federal government the power to subpoena any financial information it wants from any financial institution without showing probable cause that a crime has been committed

Obama did his best to make nice with Las Vegas on Friday after a perceived snub of the city in 2009. "Let me just say how nice it is to get out of Washington and come back to Las Vegas

The U.S. Department of Justice's civil rights division will investigate a white transit officer already convicted of killing of an unarmed black man

Obama's Justice Dept. looking into prosecuting White Cop for fatal Oakland shooting of black

Obama: More 'Hard Days' Ahead for US Economy

Obama EPA Declares L.A. River 'Navigable,' Stretches Regulatory Reach

[Nachum]

Another week under comrade Obama. Where does the time go?

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[JenB987]

The good news is that we are a little under half-way until the 2012 elections.

The bad news is he’s done a butt load of damage and intends on doing more before then...

[blueyon]

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