"The List" Thread for 2/10/09

The List, updated with 2 new items (at bottom) today. If you have new items for it or comments, please post. There have been at least two articles by widely known news sites with lists of their own of Obama's behavior since the election.

The List

First president not to attend The Inaugural Medal of Honor Ball

Many exectutive orders the first week in office. Including

* -allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States.
* - Scrapping the Mexico City Policy that protected taxpayers from involvement in overseas abortions for eight years. Obama will send hundreds of millions of dollars to groups that aggressively promote abortions on a worldwide scale.
Obama issued Executive Order "Use of Project Labor Agreements for Federal Construction Projects", revoking Bush Executive Orders 13202 and 13208. The new order encourages federal executives to require government contractors and subcontractors to use union-organized labor.
Obama issues Executive Order "Amendments to Executive Order 13199 Establishment of the President's Advisory Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.". Neighborhood partnerships" have equal footing with faith-based ones. The local Planned Parenthood or ACORN center will be treated like a house of God, in the eyes of the federal government.

First official phone call to Abbas

Insults China

First interview, with foreign news outlet- for Muslims

Talks about his muslim family

Picks fight with Limbaugh

Won't take question from press

Allows to FDA approve first human embryonic stem cell safety trial (3 days after Pres. Bush left)

Excludes any compromise with GOP on Stimulus bill Massive pork in stimulus bill

5% of stimulus bill to actually go to infrastructure

Offers to negotiate directly with Iran

Puts 5 millionairs on his cabinet

Makes a tax cheat the Sec. of the Treasury

Bombs Pakistan

Argues with the Pope on abortion

Signed the SCHIP bill, that gives health care to illegals
Won't allow a video of his retaking of the oath of office
Ordered the closure of Gitmo

Halts all pending Bush regulations

Second week:

Appoints extremist Samantha Powers to head foreign policy team

Secret nuke talks with Iran/Syria

Appoints tax cheat for commerce secretary

Illegal alien aunt, granted a "stay" of deportation Daschle the tax cheat/lobbiest proposed as secretary for health care

Nancy Killefer for candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for federal government fails to pay household help taxes ...withdrawn

Obama brings the U.S. Census Bureau under White House jurisdiction under protest from Republican lawmakers

12 lobbyists (or more) appointed to high gov't positions within the first 14 days of his administration (up to 17 by another source)

Administration demands defense cuts of 10% during wartime

Obama envoy George Mitchell tells Palistinians " they believe can extract from Israel concessions reaching "much further" than during talks held under the previous administration

The European Union warns the US yesterday against plunging the world into depression by adopting Obama's “Buy American” policy, intensifying fears of a trade war Obama immediately backs down from policy

After stating her priority would be "mum-in-chief", Michelle Obama goes on listening tour and then makes political speeches with her husband not yet one month in office...

George Mitchell resigns from a Saudi Lobbying firm, two weeks into his appointment as "Special Middle East Envoy"

Obama administration says it will cancel 77 drilling leases near Utah parks

Ogden, President Obama's pick for deputy attorney general, used to represent Playboy

Steven Chu, Obama's secretary of energy (not a climatologist) states: California's farms and vineyards could vanish by the end of the century, and its major cities could be in jeopardy, if Americans do not act to slow the advance of global warming

Obama names “most fined” Washington State bureaucrat Ron Simms to the #2 position in HUD

Hilda Solis, Obama's pick for labor secretary's husband is found to be a tax cheat just before the confirmation vote

Directed military prosecutors to revoked charges pending against mastermind of USS Cole bombing: Al Nashiri

Adding insult to injury: speaks to families of USS Cole dead, after decision to free Al Nashiri- not before

Third week in office

Obama changes the setup of the National Security Councel by executive order

Shauna Daly, professional “dirt digger” hired as “White House councel research director”

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel got free housing from House rep (D) Rosa DeLauro for 5 years . DeLauro is married to Stan Greenberg; a pollster (Quinlin Rosner Research) with lucrative contracts from both that representatives.

A Syrian paper reported that the Obama U.S. Dept. of Commerce agreed to sell plane parts to Syria

A lawyer for the Obama administration surprised a panel of federal appeals judges by making an argument to preserve state secrets in a trial regarding terrorism subjects. This argument was made, after repeatedly attacking the Bush administration for doing the same thing.

President Obama said Monday that "only government" can shake the country out of recession, as he tried to settle doubts about his administration's costly economic recovery package during a prime-time press conference.

Obama reverses Bush policy on 'warming' Federal agencies settle long-standing case in favor of environmentalists. The U.S. will now refuse to help finance development overseas if the environmental establishment claims that it would contribute to 'global warming

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