The list for Obama's 28th Week

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 Obama's Twenty Eighth Week in Office

Latest Additions to "The List"

Latest Additions to "The List"

"The list" for 8/07/2009  

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is hosting a call with health care activists and SEIU members to discuss what needs to happen in order to win health care reform

400,000 Seniors To Lose Medicare Advantage Programs Under Health Care Bill

The Obama plans to deal with protests... intercepted memo

Obama still expects unemployment to hit 10 percent this year.

Obama , has declared that actions taken by his administration had helped stop an economic freefall and said the U.S. may be seeing the "very beginnings" of the end of the recession.

Obama may accept nonprofit health-insurance cooperatives in place of a new government-run plan as long as consumers are guaranteed more choice and competition in buying insurance, a top aide said.

VIDEO: Obama: "I Don't Want The Folks Who Created The Mess To Do A Lot Of Talking"

White House Press Secretary says that the White House is not collecting names but admits that they're keeping email addresses

US grant funds West African Islam database at MSU

"The list" for 8/06/2009  

White House to Democrats: 'Punch back twice as hard'

The Congressional Budget Office has just released more mind boggling deficit numbers -- the federal deficit topped $1.3 trillion in July, a new record.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says it is a "great regret" that the United States is not a member of the International Criminal Court.

David Axelrod, the president’s chief political strategist give Senate Democrats their talking points

List of Michelle Obama's 22 attendantsThe Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced a new "Chief Diversity Officer," communications attorney Mark Lloyd. He was at one time a Senior Fellow at the uber-liberal Center for American Progress (CAP), for whom he co-wrote a June 2007 report entitled "The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio." (click on title to go to report)

Fannie Mae plans to tap $11 billion in new government aid after posting another massive quarterly loss as the taxpayer bill from the housing market bust keeps growing.  Fannie Mae's new request for $10.7 billion from the Treasury Department will bring the total for Fannie and Freddie to nearly $96 billion.

Gibbs on Birthers’ Theories: “You Couldn’t Sell This Script in Hollywood”

White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel warned liberal groups this week to stop running ads against Democratic member of Congress.

VIDEO: President Obama Says He is "Pleased" and "Deeply Gratified" at Sotomayor Confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court

VIDEO: Robert Gibbs Claims White House is Not "Collecting Names of People" Who Oppose ObamaThe all-time champion in HMO money is Barack Obama. Democrats have pulled in twice as much from the insurance industry this cycle as have the Republicans.

VIDEO: White House Declares Term "War On Terrorism" Over

Audio: Israeli Author: Obama Appears to Be a Narcissist

VIDEO: White House Press Secr. Gibbs Accuses Reporter Asking About "Fishy" Emails Of Having "Nefarious Plot"

The U.S., in an apparent softening of its support for ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, won't impose economic sanctions on Honduras and has yet to decide whether Mr. Zelaya's removal from office constitutes a coup.

Obama Advisor Sebelius on health care legislation: "we can't let the details distract us from the huge benefits that reform will bring."

The American Consulate in “eastern Jerusalem” serves 600,000 Jews in the “occupied territories” of Judea and Samaria and many parts of Jerusalem, but its website is devoted to helping Arabs only. English and Arabic are the two languages used by workers, and its telephone answering system does not offer an option for Hebrew.- View the website at... http://jerusalem.usconsulate.gov

ProPublica: Simulus spending all over the map.  County-by-county check finds amounts unrelated to poverty, unemployment

Texas Sen. John Cornyn, accusing the White House of compiling an "enemies list," has asked President Barack Obama to stop an effort to collect "fishy" information Americans see about a health care overhaul.

Obama sends mass emails to combat town hall protesters with counter protests: "This is the moment our movement was built for"- "Fight health lies"

Pressed by industry lobbyists, White House officials assured drug makers that the administration stood by a behind-the-scenes deal to block any Congressional effort to extract cost savings from them beyond an agreed-upon $80 billion.

The Senate has confirmed theologian Dr. Miguel H. Díaz as ambassador to the Pope.. Díaz donated $1,000 to the Obama Victory Fund last September 23, and another $1,000 to Obama for America on September 30

"The list" for 8/05/2009

American Middle East envoy George Mitchell has asked Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak for a "deposit," an advance commitment of a one-year freeze on construction in West Bank settlements.

The Obama administration has set up an apparatus to closely monitor Jewish construction in Jerusalem and the strategic West Bank to the point of watching Israeli moves house-to-house in certain key neighborhoods

The U.S. State Department has summoned Israel Ambassador Michael Oren over “unacceptable” and “provocative” evictions of Arabs from Jewish-owned homes in the Sheikh Jarreh neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem

Two pro-Israel American organizations and the Republican Jewish Coalition lashed out at U.S. President Barack Obama for awarding a Presidential Medal of Freedom to Mary Robinson

Obama's Czars

Health care legislation before Congress would allow a new government-sponsored insurance plan to cover abortions,

A Republican senator is calling for the White House to suspend a new project that asks members of the public to flag “fishy” claims about President Obama’s health care plans, arguing that it raises privacy concerns and will serve to chill free speech.

Obama promises health overhaul with or without GOP

U.S. appears to soften support for Honduras's Zelaya

Obama brought his latest prescription for recovery to this economically ravaged region of northern Indiana, promising Wednesday to “unleash prosperity for everybody, not just some.”

The Obama Administration is close to presenting its plan for peace in the Middle East to Israel and the Palestinians, senior officials said .

Obama to announce 2.4 billion for electric cars

Obama's national security advisor said Tuesday Washington will give a "good explanation" for plans to deploy US military units to bases in Colombia, after unease expressed in Latin America.

Gov't insurance would allow coverage for abortion

"The list" for 8/04/2009

The House investigative committee’s top-ranking Republican wants White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to answer for allegations that he used “Chicago-style scare tactics” to intimidate lawmakers who say the economic stimulus has failed. -In a letter sent to Emanuel on Tuesday, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee ranking member Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) demanded to know how involved the chief of staff was in an effort to “threaten” Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer after Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) said the president’s Recovery Act was a failure

Issa to Emanuel: Back Off!

The Obama administration is refusing to release government records on its "cash-for-clunkers" rebate program that would substantiate - or undercut - White House claims of the program's success, even as the president presses the Senate for a quick vote for $2 billion to boost car sales.

VIDEO: Geithner Goes on Expletive-Laced Tirade

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner blasted top U.S. financial regulators in an expletive-laced critique last Friday as frustration grows over the Obama administration's faltering plan to overhaul U.S. financial regulation, according to people familiar with the meeting

The Obama administration's first progress report on its foreclosure prevention plan confirms it is off to a slow start.    Just 9% of delinquent borrowers are in trial modifications so far, the Treasury Department said

White House press secretary Gibbs says Ahmadinejad is the elected leader of Iran

Obama affects a governor's race negatively.  Democrats feeling some backlash

The White House call for informants directly from the White House website: "If you see anybody publicly opposing President Obama’s plan to implement a government-centric overhaul of the health care system, the White House wants you to report that person (or persons) ASAP."

Gibbs Won't Say if Obama Will Read the Health-Care Bill

Viral campaign: White House makes snap video featuring Linda Douglass to debunk 'scare' clip on Drudge

The Secret Sevice says Obama gets 30 death threats a day

VIDEO: Uncut Video of Barack Obama in 2003 Advocating Socialized Medicine

Despite major costs to taxpayers in the U.S. and Canada, government programs that offer rebates to hybrid vehicle buyers are failing to produce environmental benefits, a new UBC study says.

The administration’s “Green Jobs” czar, Van Jones, has a “very checkered past” deep-rooted in radical politics, including black nationalism, anarchism, and communism.

"The list" for 8/3/2009

The sponsor of the anti-Semitic hate fests known as Durban I and Durban II, Mary Robinson, wins medal of honor.  Then accused "certain elements" of the Jewish community of bullying after a number of pro-Israel lobby groups voiced concerns over her being awarded the topUS civilian honour

"The list" for 8/3/2009

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday said Israel's evictions of Palestinian families from east Jerusalem are "deeply regrettable" and urged the close US ally to refrain from such "provocative" actions.

The White House dismisses as "hypothetical back and forth" suggestions by top economic advisers that middle-class families could see a tax hike.  

Dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainee cases have been referred to federal prosecutors for possible criminal trials in the nation's capital, Virginia and New York City, officials told The Associated Press on Monday.

"The list" for 8/2/2009

Obama's treasury secretary said Sunday he cannot rule out higher taxes to help tame an exploding budget deficit, and his chief economic adviser would not dismiss raising them on middle-class Americans as part of a health care overhaul.

New taxes to help address the long-term budget deficit cannot be ruled out, National Economic Council Director Larry Summers admitted

Obama Joker Poster Popping Up In Los Angeles

Officials say the administration is eyeing a soon-to-be-shuttered state maximum security prison in Michigan and the military penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas to hold Gitmo detainees.

As President Obama repeatedly tells America that his plan for healthcare reform will not lead to the elimination of private health insurance, statements he made in 2007 and 2003 tell a different story

 Obama's Twenty Seventh Week in Office

"The list" for 8/1/2009

The House health-care reform bill proposes to decrease hospital visits by establishing a “medical home pilot program” for elderly and disabled Americans. This will be a new sort of institution set up to accept the elderly that isn’t staffed with doctors and high cost medical equipment but is instead staffed by nurse practitioners and other less trained personnel.

"The list" for 7/31/2009

Obama’s Science Adviser Called for ‘Zero Economic Growth’

House Health Care Bill Criticized as Panel Votes for Public Plan

Saudi Arabia on Friday bluntly rejected U.S. appeals for improved relations with Israel as a way to help restart Middle East peace talks, saying the Jewish state is not interested in a deal.

The Department of Defense release 146 additional photos Friday of Air Force One's controversial Manhattan flyover in April.

The House votes to restrict Wall Street pay.  First piece of a broader proposal by Obama to increase oversight of financial institutions.

Analysis: Public Co-operatives for health care, a "tojan horse" leading to the public option and single payor health care?

Obama's green jobs czar not sure what 'green jobs" are

The nation's economy is starting to rebound, but the Obama administration's massive stimulus package had little to do with it. While government spending at all levels increased in the second quarter, only a small amount of the $787 billion stimulus package had trickled out by June 30.

The Kenyan aunt of President Obama has quietly resurfaced in public housing in South Boston

[Nachum]

It has been a very interesting week indeed.

Posting here, for those who are keeping track.

[COUNTrecount]

Excellent work. Bump.

[Harley]

I didn’t see: Begin selection process for Sasha and Melia’s goldfish for in-place by Jan 2010.

[Nachum]

I didn’t see: Begin selection process for Sasha and Melia’s goldfish for in-place by Jan 2010.

Acchhh! I KNEW I forgot something.