"The List", Obama's One Hundred and Thirty First Week in Office

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President Obama's One Hundred and Thirty First Week in Office

"The List" for 7/28/2011

Obamanomics

Moody’s Places 177 Local Muni Issuers on Downgrade Review Amid Debt Debate

With a natural gas drilling boom... in some parts of the country, the Environmental Protection Agency- proposed to 'control' air pollution at oil and gas wells

White House press secretary Jay Carney said Thursday that President Obama’s debt ceiling plan is the best-known option at this point. There’s just one problem with that: No publicly available, detailed Obama plan exists

Business leaders air growing unhappiness with Obama

African-American Middle Class Eroding As Unemployment Rate Soars

California foreclosure crisis persists with little relief in sight

Veterans Summoned to White House, Told to Brace for Cuts

White House Prodding Rating Agencies to Endorse Reid Plan: Report

Geithner flip-flops on payment prioritization

WH spokesman calls debt decision 'Sophie's Choice,'rejects questions on WH plan

New York Stock Exchange director and Wall Street stalwart Ken Langone: Obama 'Unpresidential,' 'Petulant' 'Dividing Us'

A rising hunger among children

The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits dropped last week to the lowest level since early April

Gunrunner-Gate

 House Committee to Seek More Info on White House Connection to Fast and Furious Gun Operation: investigators plan to seek information from the White House National Security Council staff

Gunwalker: William Newell Circles the Wagons

Senior ATF, Justice officials ignored Mexico-based agents’ complaints, bragged about Fast and Furious successes

White House Staffer Knew About Gun Running Operation Last Fall

2009: Assistant Attorney General (Criminal Division) Lanny Breuer got a Power Point presentation on Fast and Furious.

2009 Video: Barack Obama Still Wants Assault Weapons Ban ..""The issue of gun tracing"

Obama Talked About "Gun Tracing" in 2009

Appropriations Committee calls for independent Gunwalker investigation

Mexico Gun-Running Operation Enhanced Cartels’ ‘Ability to Inflict Serious Damage and Casualties'

Obama Ethics

DOJ takes elderly pro-life activist to court for intimidation

Racketeering Charges against SEIU; What Does Obama Know?

As NLRB deliberates on Boeing, union takes organizing into its own hands

Obamacare

Health care law won’t rein in costs, study says

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is soliciting bids to promote the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) program, a controversial long-term care insurance program established by ObamaCare.

You think the debt crisis is bad now? Wait until Obamacare takes its toll

It's 3am and nobody's there

Military Recruiters pressed to reach out to gays once ban is lifted

US Troops in Mideast Commanded to Abide by Sharia law during Ramadan

3 Soldiers Arrested Near Fort Hood In Connection With Possible Attack

Reports: AWOL soldier with explosives arrested near Fort Hood

Obama and Tarp

10 More Banks Exit TARP by. . .Borrowing From Treasury

Community Organizer to the World

170 Jewish Social Justice Leaders to Meet With Obama Administration

First Lady, McDonald's Shouldn't Tell Parents How to Raise Kids

"The List" for 7/27/2011

Obama and Israel

U.S. report recommends ending loan guarantees to Israel at end of 2011

Gunrunner-Gate

Transcript of Newell questioning related to NSC's O'Reilly

Issa Hopes White House Official Aware of Fast and Furious Will Testify

ATF Officials in Mexico Denied Access to Gunwalking Info by U.S. Counterparts

Video: Meehan Getting Answers on Fast & Furious: ATF, ICE, DEA, & IRS Involved in Operation

Fast and Furious: Enter the IRS and White House -The scandal grows wider, and deeper.

Operation Fast and Furious Probe: Testifiers Fast on Their Feet, Republicans Furious at Evasive Answers

Is ‘Fast and Furious’ Just the Tip of Obama’s Gun Smuggling Iceberg?

ATF agent denies ‘walking’ guns into Mexico

ATF attaché calls Gunwalker 'perfect storm of idiocy'

Obama and Agenda 21

California Wages War On Single-Family Homes

Obama Ethics

A congressional panel is examining whether the Obama administration tried to unduly influence Standard & Poor's before the credit rater revised its outlook on the debt rating to negative.

The White House vs. Boeing -The Obama Administration opposes a bill to rein in the NLRB.

Call the White House Boring On Twitter, Get RickRolled

Darrell Issa asks Obama campaign for fundraising info

Eric Holder Probing State Voter ID Laws

Obama’s Fox hunt: Probe of parent company puts conservative media in crosshairs

Audio:Flashback: Obama will bankrupt the coal industry on San Francisco radio interview

Obamacare

ObamaCare's Protections Leave Consumers Ducking for Cover- rates go through the roof

Obamanomics

Obama: More than Twice the Debt in Half the Time as Bush

This Time The Debt Ceiling Hike Really Is Different:  cash inflows into the Treasury are 6 times lower than the current debt ceiling

Fed survey: Growth slows across much of the US

Orders for U.S. Durable Goods Fell in June

Gold strikes new record high on US default fears: $1,628 per ounce

Airline stocks sink to 52-week lows; Delta hit Carrier reports fare hikes couldn’t fully offset higher costs

The White House is preparing to slightly soften its proposal on new fuel-efficiency standards for cars and trucks, after weeks of talks with automakers lobbying for lower standards out of concern for the impact on their business

Wealth-killing federal home ownership policy backfires on Hispanics

ObamaCare: Our Debt's Worst Offender

Carney: Obama’s policies saved $1T

Community Organizer to the World

Holder Probing Farrakhan 'Hate Sermons'

Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear was accused of snubbing Obama when he visited Fort Campbell earlier this year to meet the Navy SEAL team that killed Osama bin Laden  -internal emails obtained by The Associated Press show that Beshear was the one who received a cold shoulder during Obama's visit to the Army post on the Kentucky-Tennessee line: The governor wasn't invited.

Taxpayer Money Will Help Homosexual Activists Establish ‘Safe Spaces’ in Public Schools

 Woman in Deportation Proceedings Speaks with Obama

It's 3am and nobody's there

Obama's Libya Missteps Imperil NATO's Future

The Libyan campaign is running into the sand

"The List" for 7/26/2011

Gunrunner-Gate

ATF Manager says he shared Fast and Furious Info with White House

Of the six scheduled witnesses who testified before the Issa committee today, at least two of them received letters from the ATF warning them to limit their testimony

FBI report at odds with ATF claim on weapons.... Obama gives current FBI director another 2 years

ATF agents denounce rogue guns transfers Not told of ‘insane’ operation of arms allowed to go south to Mexico cartels

Obama DOJ Gave Cartel Enough Guns to Arm a Marine Regiment

VIDEO: ATF agent who implemented 'Fast and Furious' says 4 federal agencies were 'full partners'

The White House report titled “Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime,

Amid ‘Fast and Furious’ Scandal, Obama’s New Anti-Crime Strategy Includes Stemming Gun Flow to Mexico

(122 firearms) Guns from U.S. sting operation found at Mexican crime scenes

FBI Implicated In ‘Fast and Furious’

Senior ATF, Justice Dept officials ignored Mexico-based agents’ complaints, bragged about Fast and Furious successes

House of Representatives ATF Accused in Congressional Report of 'Arming' Cartel for 'War' Through Operation Fast and Furious

The Obama administration sought to intimidate witnesses into not testifying to Congress on Tuesday about whether ATF knowingly allowed weapons, including assault rifles, to be “walked” into Mexico, the chairman of a House committee investigating the program said in an interview Monday.

Obama Ethics

White House on Budget-Talk Secrecy: ‘That’s How it Works’

U.S. Senate Obama’s Pick to Lead Counterterrorism Center Faces Accusations of Misleading Congress

DC Circuit Rejects EPA’s Reliance on Guidance Documents in Lieu of Rulemaking in Clean Air Act Case

Obamacare

Ohio Health Care Question Cleared For Fall Ballot (Obamacare Opt-out)

Report: 1 in 8 employer insurance plans getting the axe since Obamacare

It's 3am and nobody's there

U.S. to Take Another Look at Gay Blood Donation Ban

France appeared on Tuesday to have persuaded Britain to support a shift in attitude toward Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, suggesting that he could be allowed to remain in Libya in return for giving up power in a broader deal including a cease-fire

Obama's Intent to Gut the Military

Obamanomics

TN Plant Gets 4,300 Applications For 60 Jobs - Industrial Maintenance & Plant Operations

Deal or no deal? US downgrade looking likely

The Latest Job Killer From the EPA The agency's ozone rule will be the most expensive in history—and isn't required by law.

Carney Gets Hit for Ten Minutes on The Obama Plan

Carney To FOX News: "Tell Your Viewers There's Nothing To Worry About"

Home prices dip 4.5%

New-home sales fell for second straight month in June; median sales price increases

WH's Pfeiffer: Not Raising Debt Ceiling "Could Potentially Put Us Towards A Depression"(video)

Downgrade could come as soon as Friday

Government Unemployment Watch: USPS To Close Up To 3,700 Post Offices

Obama and Israel

'US paying salaries for jailed Palestinian terrorists'

Community Organizer to the World

Press Sec Jay Carney Accuses FOX's Ed Henry Of Repeating GOP Talking Points (VIDEO)

Obama: Idea of Changing Immigration Laws on My Own ‘Is Very Tempting’

Remarks by the President to the National Council of La Raza

"The List" for 7/25/2011

Obama Ethics

EPA and AEP to face off at House Oversight hearing: A top Environmental Protection Agency official will come face to face with a representative of utility giant American Electric Power Tuesday at a hearing of a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee.

Issa: Panel to probe Obama campaign ad

Obama Administration Just Says ‘No’ to Abstinence Education

Gunrunner-Gate

A gunrunning sting gone fatally wrong

Feds Refuse to Explain How Convicted Felons Bought Guns in 'Operation Fast and Furious'

Obamacare

Health Care Law: 57% Favor Repeal of Health Care Law

AARP won’t acknowledge financial interest in Medicare copay debate...... - Michelle Obama OnThe Cover of AARP The Magazine"

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Contracts Awarded and Consultants Retained by Federal Departments and Agencies to Assist in Implementing the Act

ObamaCare Arrives in Michigan:

Another Obamacare ‘Glitch’ Will Add Billions to the Deficit: new report from Cornell economist Richard Burkhauser and his colleagues

As the many provisions of ObamaCare continue to be pieced together, we're starting to find that the law as a whole simply doesn't work.  Not just for some people, but for anyone.

Community Organizer to the World

Nasa's mission orders come in: put astronauts on an asteroid within 15 years

Obama Blames ‘Splintered’ News Media for Lack of Compromise in Washington

Obama: 'I need a dance partner' on immigration reform

The National Council of La Raza, an advocacy group that frames nearly every national policy debate as a Latino issue, will hear a speech from President Obama today, as the president delivers his latest sales pitch to Hispanics

Biden set to appear at fundraiser as Obama cancels appearance

Obama and Biden Cancel Many Fundraisers Outside of Washington

It's 3am and nobody's there

IRGC Aerospace Force Commander Threatens Israel & the US with Long-Range Missiles

Top US officer Admiral Michael Mullen on Monday acknowledged NATO was in a "stalemate" in its Libya campaign

Obama issued an Executive Order today declaring the threat of transnational organized crime networks a national emergency

The hidden homeless: Sheltered in motels, they wait, hope

Officials at U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have proposed a new salary plan for Border Patrol agents that could cost them an average of $7,000 a year in lost pay and spark what some say would be an exodus of veteran agents to higher-paying agencies.

Obamanomics

The $1 Billion Armageddon Trade Placed Against The United States Bond Market

Paul Ryan: A Trillion-Dollar Gimmick

One in five American men don't work

Obama: ‘We Can’t Just Close Our Deficits By Cutting Spending’.......--to address nation on debt limit stalemate

GE Moves Healthcare Division's X-Ray Unit Headquarters To China

ABC News: White House Formally Embraces Reid Deficit Plan

Report: Obama Rejects Bipartisan Debt Deal

Microbrewery is getting a $740,000 interest-free expansion loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture

Video: Geithner: "We Write 80 Million Checks A Month"

White House Privately Telling Bankers That We Won't Default If Debt Deadline Missed

Obama to Banks: We're Not Defaulting

Obama let his frustration over the stalled debt talks seep into an address on Latino issues on Monday, confessing that he’d like to “bypass Congress and change the laws on my own.”

IMF calls for US to raise debt ceiling and cut spending

Obama kills bipartisan deal, then Reid resorts to smoke and mirrors

Poll: Pessimism about the Economy hits 15-year high

UAW wants bigger cut of Detroit's newfound profits

Is Your IRA Going To Be Raided?

Obama: FDR Was 'Fiscally Conservative'

Obama: I’m Dealing with Debt Issue Like Lincoln Dealt with Slavery (Video)

Jim Rogers: "The US Has Already Lost Its AAA Status...I Am Short The US Bond Market As We Speak"

Blackberry maker to cut 2,000 jobs, splits COO job

Obama administration's charm offensive fails to win over business groups

Obama and Israel

The Obama administration is launching a media- and public-outreach program to improve Palestinian opinion of U.S. policy

British Petroleum-Gate

Special master sought to oversee oil spill claims

"The List" for 7/24/2011

Obama Ethics

A year-long military-led investigation has concluded that U.S. taxpayer money has been indirectly funneled to the Taliban under a $2.16 billion transportation contract that the United States has funded in part to promote Afghan businesses.

Obama's political wing involved in Wisconsin recalls

Community Organizer to the World

Obama's Team: Commie Night at US Cellular Field

It's 3am and nobody's there

Video: Obama Links His Tax Increase to Patriotism

Obama and NATO Turn Libya, and a $30B Check, Over to Jihadists

White House hiding Chinese power? Obama's China adviser, Evan Medeiros, has a long history of downplaying the threat to U.S. interests posed by Beijing's rapid military and economic growth, once even penning a paper that argued China should embrace a "great power mentality."

Obamanomics

Gold hits new high at $1616.89 on debt worries (Breaks $1620)

Fox news Chris Wallace interviews Treasure Secretary Geithner (Video)

US Futures Are Falling And Gold Is Surging, As Weekend Goes By Without A Debt Deal

Gas jumps more than 8.5 cents per gallon in U.S.: survey  -The average price for a gallon of gasoline in the United States rose for the first time since early May following an increase in the price of crude oil

Obama: “Not Spending Money Is Mortgaging America’s Future”

Tim Geithner Refuses To Tell Chris Wallace What Happens If Debt Ceiling Isn’t Raised

Treasury secretary says economy may have slowed: blames .. rising oil prices, bad weather, the nuclear crisis in Japan, tight budgets for local and state governments... and possible government default

This weekend's turn of events have shifted the responsibility of raising the debt ceiling and reducing the deficit to Congress -- and away from President Obama. (Snip) In a statement from White House press secretary Jay Carney, the administration said Congress "should be responsible and do its job, avoiding default and cutting the deficit."

Congress ditches Obama on debt talks

Wall St, companies brace for U.S. default

D.C. is Booming – Obama’s Government is Growing

FDIC Closed More Banks in 2011 Than the Eight Bush Years Combined

Obamacare

Assisted Suicide and Rationing Pushed As “Pragmatic” Way to Pay for Vermont Single Payer

Obama and TARP

Banks Pay Back TARP Funds by. . .Borrowing From Treasury

"The List" for 7/23/2011

Obama Ethics

Obama's OMB ignores document subpoena; Upton/Stearns House panel says Monday morning or else

Obama: Republicans’ Fault If Social Security Checks Don’t Go Out

Gunrunner-Gate

House Oversight Committee Announces Next Hearing on DOJ’s Operation Fast and Furious

Flashback 2009: Story on American Guns in Mexico and Obama's interest in them

Community Organizer to the World

Obama and Debt Crisis like Lincoln and Emancipation Proclamation?

It's 3am and nobody's there

President Obama's July - No Golf or Fundraisers, but Church, Camp David and Lots of Debt Meetings

Obama to add 20,000 troops to US streets in the event of Civil unrest (video)

Big Sis: “Violent extremists have, in fact, obtained insider positions” in nuclear industry

Obamanomics

NASA Reducing Space Shuttle Workforce From 6,700 to 1,000

California will seek $5 billion in short-term loans from banks and other financial institutions next week, hoping to avoid the risk of being locked out of the markets if Congress fails to raise the federal debt ceiling by Aug. 2

How the White House killed the deal: the House speaker’s office has put out a blow-by-blow on how the debt talks collapsed:

"The List" for 7/22/2011

Gunrunner-Gate

Worse Than Gunwalker? State Dept. Allegedly Sold Guns to Zetas - Phil Jordan, a former CIA operative and one-time leader of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s El Paso Intelligence Center, claims that the Obama administration is running guns to the violent Zetas cartel through the direct commercial sale of military grade weapons:

House to question ATF officials on guns to Mexico

Gunwalker: Justice Dept. Inspector General Opens Investigation

 Is 'Gunwalker' whistleblower John Dodson victim of retaliatory smear campaign?

Obama and Agenda 21

A new house bill wants to allow the Department of Homeland Security to have jurisdiction over all federal lands on national seashores and coastal areas:  HR Bill 1505 allows for DHS takeover of seashores and coastal areas

Community Organizer to the World

Obama’s political arm at the Democratic National Committee is getting involved in the Wisconsin state Senate recall elections

USDA: 6,501 ‘Food Deserts’ Are Spread Across Most of U.S. Mainland

Michelle Obama attacks 'food deserts; Goal to bring healthy food to poor neighborhoods in U.S

It's 3am and nobody's there

The Space Shuttle Program’s Ignominious Conclusion

Obama and Pentagon leaders are poised to end the 17-year-old ban on gays serving openly in the military

Obama Ethics

Obama tests the line between campaigning and his official duties

World Guides website claims Obama born in Kisumu, Kenya

The DOJ attacks FOX: Justice Department Prepares Subpoenas in News Corp. Inquiry ....Report: Obama top recipient of News Corp. donations

 Who does Homeland Security thinks poses the greatest risk? Video portrays white middle-class as the most likely terrorists

Obamanomics

Obama Asks Republicans "What Can You Say Yes To," As Debt Talks Implode

Automakers Warn of Huge Job Losses Under Obama Fuel Efficiency Plan

Lockheed plans layoffs of 6,500 employees

Obama:Martin O’Malley is one of the best govs in country – MD ranked dead last in job creation

Obama: I can’t raise debt ceiling on my own ...vows "hard choices" on debt as Democrats fume

Video: Obama Makes ‘Socialist’ Quip During Debt Town Hall

Obama’s Billionairess Union-Busting Buddy , Penny Pritzker, Turns Heat On Strikers!

Unemployment rates rose in majority of US states ... Interactive Map

Obama makes debt case at town hall: Tax the rich

The Obama administration is examining ways to pull foreclosed properties off the market and rent them to help stabilize the housing market,

Obamacare

Report: Estimating Cost and Effects of Obamacare, "An offer you can't refuse"

Obamacare’s raid on the medicine cabinet Political appointees, not doctors, will choose medications

Let them eat kale

While President Obama pushes to increase taxes for Americans, his Office of Government Ethics is busy planning a taxpayer-funded “conference” at a famously luxurious golf and spa resort in Florida

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Obama holds his 7th news conference in more than 2 and a half years. No golf this week. He looks deprived.

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