The List for Obama's 17th week

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[Nachum]

 Obama's Seventeenth Week in Office

The List for 5/22/2009

The Obama administration asked the Cuban Gov't to resume talks on legal immigration of Cubans to the U.S. suspended by former President Bush

Banks negotiating to reclaim stock warrants granted in return for TARP program money may shortchange taxpayers by almost $10 billion if Treas. Secr. Geithners's first sale sets the pace

Joe Biden says he's "Out of the loop" after saying the decision to close Gitmo was "like opening Pandora's Box"

Obama signs yet another big bill faster than his self proclaimed "5 day waiting period pledge". Credit card reform to be signed today

Obama dumps the meeting with preschoolers to meet the Pittsburgh Steelers.  Kids locked out of White House.  Says they were"Too late"

Audio/video from 2003: Obama wants a single payor system, by stealth

Video From 2007: Health & Human Services secr. Sebelius for single payor system

Treas. Secr. Geithner called for major changes in compensation practices at financial companies, said Obama administration’s plan to help realign pay with performance will be rolled out by mid-June

Obama is promising newly graduated Navy and Marine officers that he will only send young Americans into battle when "it is absolutely necessary" and when the mission is well-defined- denounced "fear-mongering" by political opponents and insisted that maximum-security prisons on the U.S. mainland can safely house the dangerous detainees he wants transferred out of Guantanamo

Obama signs Pentagon cost cutting bill

Biden goes to Lebanon for the second time, Hamas says he's interfering with the election

Obama's gives meandering response to request for birth certificate: "I wish I could say that there is a simple formula," .... "But there is not. These are tough calls involving competing concerns, and they require a surgical approach

The List for 5/21/2009

The Treasury Dept said it has put another $7.5 billion into auto lender GMAC to enable it to support both Chrysler and General Motors car buyers and partly meet a shortage of capital

Obama signs legislation creating a commission aimed at curbing financial fraud in the mortgage and other industries- Obama is reserving the right to claim executive privilege if the commission seeks information or documents that the White House considers to be beyond the bounds of public information

The census bureau publicly states that it will use GPS to track residences

Obama acknowledged publicly for the first time yesterday that some detainees at Guantanamo Bay may have to be held without trial indefinitely, siding with conservative national security advocates

Obama’s Plan to Close Gitmo…Was Bush’s Plan 3yr Ago

Obama told human rights advocates at the White House on that he was mulling the need for a “preventive detention” system that would establish a legal basis for the United States to incarcerate terrorism suspects who are deemed a threat to national security but cannot be tried

Obama declares defiantly that the U.S. "went off course" in fighting terrorism over the past eight years, and said his policies will "better protect" the country against al Qaeda

Obama vowed to press on with his bid to close Gitmo despite raging controversy, and branded Bush-era anti-terror a "mess" based on "fear"

Obama says 50 of the detainees held at Gitmo have been cleared for transfer to other countries.

Michelle Obama on the cover of Time Magazine for the 17th time

The List for 5/20/2009

One day after Netanyahu concluded his first official visit to the White House, US Sec. of State Hillary Clinton calls for an absolute stop to all settlement activity

VIDEO: Geithner to DeMint: Bailouts may never end, no exit plans

Another questionable Obama appointment- to the FDA.  Dr. Joshua Sharfstein as deputy commissioner, the president decided that absolute drug safety should come first--even at the cost of the drugs' availability to sick patients

A top al-Qaida suspect, Ahmed Ghailani, held at Guantanamo Bay will be sent to New York for trial, an Obama administration official said Wednesday.

SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro says she will "profoundly" question any move by the Obama administration to move some consumer-protection powers outside of the SEC.

White House produces its own press coverage of visit to University of Connecticut's women's basketball team and excludes White House press corp.

FBI Chief Robert Mueller undermines Obama's plan to close the Guantanamo Bay prison by warning that detainees could fuel terrorism if transferred to US soil.

The Pentagon will not release a report that says one in seven at Gitmo return to terrorism

Obamacare Rationing: The Obama administration is seeking to reduce hospital readmission rates by rewarding or penalizing hospitals through Medicare payments

Of the 16 members of Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, only one (Feldstein) opposes cap-and-trade. At least six (Immelt, Owens, Doerr, Ferguson, Wolf, Phillips) expect direct financial benefits from cap-and-trade. The remaining members are either Obama supporters/employees or union representatives. Taxpayers, consumers and non-rent-seeking businesses have been left out in the cold

Three of Chrysler’s secured creditors– all Indiana state pension funds – are mounting a fresh attempt to thwart the carmaker’s Chapter 11 reorganisation on the grounds that it violates their legal rights and the US government’s authority under the Troubled asset relief programme.(TARP)

Indiana will no longer invest in bonds issued by banks and automakers who receive federal bailout money.

British firms are being shut out from lucrative contracts in the US despite assurances from Barack Obama that America would not start a trade war

Obama may earn millions from taxpayer-funded schools in his new book deal. Random house, big campaign donor, wants to sell  Obama's"Dreams of my Father" to publicly funded schools

Obama calls for demilitarized Palistinian state in four years.

Michele Flournoy,Obama's new Pentagon policy chief, says members of Congress need to remember that closing the stigmatized prison in Cuba will mean hard choices for everyone. Says members of Congress must rethink their opposition to accepting these detainees into the United States.

Sen. Tom Harkin, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and Rep. Rosa DeLauro, senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, are expressing frustration that Obama wants to reduce funding for land conservation programs after he has backed other conservation efforts.

Obama has backed off its threat to withhold billions of dollars in stimulus money from California, telling Gov. Schwarzenegger the state did not violate federal law in cutting pay for home healthcare workers in a bid to help balance the budget

The List for 5/19/2009

Hillary Clinton said ‘it is fair to say that our policy towards Pakistan over the last 30 years has been incoherent.

Businessman Norman Hsu, 58, was convicted by a jury in federal court in New York of violating election laws by making donations to political campaigns in other people's names. Obama connections.

76 of the 100 senators wrote Obama a letter urging him to take into account the risks Israel must face in any Middle East peace accord

Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano on Tuesday dodged nearly every question concerning the transfer of detainees being held at Guantanamo prison to the United States, saying only that the department was involved in the prisoners’ review

Obama orders FCC inquiry into Arbitron's  more accurate radio ratings system/technology, citing "diversity"

A socialist-oriented "media reform" group which calls itself Free Press, with ties to the Obama Administration is calling for new federal programs and the spending of tens of billions of dollars to keep journalists employed at liberal media outlets and to put them to work in new "public media."

The United States plans to provide as much as $110 million to help Pakistanis who had been displaced by their government's attacks on militants

State funds take a hit from Chrysler bankruptcy, pensioners take a hit due to federal gov. actions

Allstate and Ameriprise turn down federal aid as banks move to exit the bailout program

General Motors Corp's plan for a bankruptcy filing involves a quick sale of the company's healthy assets to a new company initially owned by the U.S. government

 Buy-out chief Mark Patterson; US sham bank bail-outs enrich speculators; " US Treasury’s effort to stabilise the banking system through the TARP programme is a hopelessly ill-conceived policy that enriches speculators at public expense"

Obama outlined the nation's first comprehensive effort to curb vehicle emissions while cutting dependence on imported oil, consumers to spend $1300 more per car

Obama informed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he intends to promote a new regional peace initiative for the Middle East

U.S to expand immigration checks to all local jails.  Obama administration enforcement push could lead to sharp increase in deportations

The List for 5/18/2009  

The administration gave House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, advanced warning before CIA Chief Panetta sent memo to employees at the CIA that countered Pelosi's claim that the agency lied to Congress about waterboarding.

Obama refuses to meet with the Governor and key business leaders from Nevada. Governor Gibbons requested the meeting in a letter to Obama so the President could address statements he made that were critical to Nevada and have caused economic damage to convention business and tourism business

The American military now openly admits providing military training to Palestinian military forces.

Obama rnational emission limits to cost consumers an extra $1,300 per vehicle

The national emissions policy for autos, which will ramp up to a new standard of about 35 miles per gallon, by 2016

Obama will tomorrow announce a "historic" new policy involving new greenhouse gas emission standards and new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for vehicles sold in the U.S.

Global AIDS activists say Obama broker four pledges for Africa; All about money

Congressional Democrats from economically struggling regions are getting frustrated as Obama backs away from campaign promises to renegotiate NAFTA

Obama is seeking $12.8 billion in new tax revenue from life insurers over the next decade

Emanuel and Blagojevich traded numerous calls in 2006 about school grant

Obama jokes about having the IRS perform and audit on school official at ASU commencement speech

The New York Times finally went on record to admit that just before last Election Day it killed a politically sensitive news story involving corruption allegations that might have made the Obama campaign look bad

The List for 5/17/2009  

Russia and the United States open fresh nuclear disarmament negotiations this week

Only 31 percent of Israelis consider the views of American president Barack Obama's administration pro-Israel, according to a Smith Research poll

Obama reiterated comments made by other top officials, saying that he understands why Israel considers Iran an existential threat, (but does not say he agrees)

VIDEO: Militaristic Obama Youth commercial

VIDEO: Obama Notre Dame speech

Obama uses commencement address at Notre Dame to speak on abortion.  "Seek common ground"

Obama wants to pour 475 million into great lakes clean up

Vice president Biden, well-known for his verbal gaffes, confirms at a dinner the existence and location of a secret hidden bunker that Cheney is believed to have used after the 9/11 attacks

Obama’s push for a climate-change law this year has set off a lobbying boom on Capitol Hill, where companies are registering to weigh in at a rate of about one every business day

 

[Nachum]

For those of you who are keeping track

[americanophile]

This is great.

[Bahbah]

It can’t be easy to keep up with the mounting disasters.

Bless you.

[Nachum]

I am now beginning to coallate the posts into subjects at my site. I just finished with the first file only with his actions towards Israel. Soon, TARP, taxation, and the military.

I think that when one looks at this list in its size, one gets an idea of what we are really in for.

[cricket]

Thanks for listing. No easy task here! (Did anyone hear Obama explain to the Annapolis Grads; when speaking about the rescue from pirates/terrorists a few weeks back; a comment to the effect. . .'you know some of the story; and there were things 'you' did not know; and NEVER would - 'and that is as it should be'? Found this an amazing and a frightening/warning statement; and thought this would be challenged; but it has not been; yet anyway. . .

[cricket]

OK. . .found it; a bit different; but still puzzling:

And that’s exactly what America’s Navy did just last month in the seas off Somalia. (Applause.) I will not recount the full story of those five days in April; much of it is already known. Some of it will never be known, and that’s how it should be.

Perhaps he is only attempting some additional self-aggrandizement as CIC; as he stands before these men in uniform. Feeling the need to emphasize the talents that are drawn from him as a 'Dear Leader'. (We can only imagine the inside stress Obama endured; the 'steel'/nerve/verve and unwavering Leadership. . .so required of a President.)

Just seemed the Left's proclivities for an MO of 'what did he know and when did he know it'; it did stand out and rather brazenly so.