The list, for the 21st week of Obama's presidency

Nachumlist ^ | 6/19/09 | Nachum

[Nachum]

 Obama's Twentyfirst Week in Office

Latest Additions to "The List"

"The List" for 6/19/2009

U.S. may seek new rule for money market funds.  Obama proposal says regulators should consider forcing the mutual funds to float their share prices.

Obama tied to Ayers... at age 11

Obama's Doctor Knocks ObamaCare

ABC employees donated heavily to Obama.   ABC employees gave 80 times as much money to Mr. Obama's 2008 campaign for president than to his rival's.

Obama's choice as chief of protocol for the State Department, Capricia Penavic Marshall, did not file tax returns for 2005 and 2006, errors she corrected last November. Blames Post Office.

"The List" for 6/18/2009

A top Air Force general, swerving from the Pentagon leadership, said ending production of Lockheed Martin Corp's F-22 Raptor fighter jet, as proposed by Obama, posed a high risk to U.S. ability to carry out its current military strategy.

Iran's envoy to the UN atomic watchdog caused a buzz among journalists on when he apparently misspoke and said his country had the right to a nuclear weapon-- no word from the White House

Only 6 percent of Jewish Israelis consider the views of American President Barack Obama's administration pro-Israel

Sen. Grassley, ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, is looking into the abrupt firings within the last week of two other inspectors general, one of whom was fired by the White House and the other by the chair of the International Trade Commission.

VIDEO: shows an interview with Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson admitting his close relationship with both the president and the first lady and later denying the relationship.  Mr. Johnson is currently embroiled in Walpin-gate.  His non-profit, St. HOPE Academy, is being investigated by the FBI  over allegations that an executive at the nonprofit founded by Mr. Johnson obstructed a federal inquiry into the group's spending.

VIDEO: White House Responds To Bush: "We Won"

White press secretary in response to former president Bush's criticisms: "we won"

A top White House lawyer called the firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin an act of "political courage," according to House Republican aides who were in a meeting with the lawyer

The Obama administration’s disputes with government watchdogs do not end with fired Inspector General Gerald Walpin.  The Treasury Department is embroiled in a disagreement with Neil Barofsky, the watchdog for the $700 billion government bailout Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP.

Obama's plan to overhaul the structure of financial regulation leaves in place the split between those regulators who supervise the trading of futures at the Commodities Futures Trading Commission and those who supervise stock trading at the Securities Trading Association.

Congress will fund at least 20 more Lockheed Martin F-22 fighter jets despite Obama administration plans to cap production at 187

U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell has advised Israel to relax restrictions at the Gaza crossings without demanding that Hamas free kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit

Frontline US army commanders in Iraq say the withdrawal of American troops from the troubled northern city of Mosul is mired in confusion just 12 days ahead of the deadline for them to pull out

Obama appoints his sister to President's Commission on Whitehouse Fellowships

"The List" for 6/17/2009

Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, clashed face to face with her Israeli counterpart Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s foreign minister, In what appeared one of the most tense encounters between the sides for several years, Clinton and Lieberman, disagreed on both the US call for a complete freeze on settlement growth and Israel’s contention that the administration of George W. Bush, the former president, had signalled that some expansion was permissible.

Holder defends the use of extreme force in "Indian Artifacts" arrest that injured non-violent civilians

ABC Promises Republicans heatlh care coverage won't be Obama 'informercial'

ABC News is refusing paid ads for its health care program at the White House. As of now, ABC is not accepting paid advertising, thus they're refusing even a paid-for alternative viewpoint

Attorney Genera Eric Holder said there may be 50 or more trials of Gitmo detainees as the Obama administration works to shut the detention center by early next year

White House refuses to answer Senate questions on AmeriCorps IG firing

Independant witness confirms Walpin's account and idicts the White House on IG firing

Instead of 50, now it's 60 Gitmo detainees to be tried: Holder

VIDEO: Sen. Sessions calls Obama's Attorney Gen. Holder "Soft on Terror"

U.S Bankcorp and BB&T became the first large financial institutions to announce that they have repaid the government in full for the preferred shares it bought last fall under the federal bailout

The Energy Department is planning to award $18.5 billion in loan guarantees for the construction of new nuclear power plants to four utilities, government sources said today

A top Republican senator is asking whether First Lady Michelle Obama's office played any role in last week's firing of former service program Inspector General Gerald Walpin

VIDEO: Walpin fired (by Obama) for doing his job?

Gerald Walpin, who was the inspector general for the Corporation for National and Community Service, says that part of President Obama's explanation for firing him was a "total lie" and that he feels he's got a target on his back for political reasons. 

"The List" for 6/16/2009

The Department of Defense is training all of its personnel in its current Antiterrorism and Force Protection Annual Refresher Training Course that political protest is "low-level terrorism." 

Obama plan would cut number of US bank regulators

House defense authorizers are pressing Defense Secretary Robert Gates to consider buying existing fighter jets instead of the next-generation F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to curtail a severe fighter jet shortfall in the Air Force National Guard.

Obama plans to extend health care and other benefits to the gay and lesbian partners of federal employees.

The Obama administration plans to streamline U.S. bank oversight and put the Federal Reserve in charge of monitoring big-picture economic risks in a sweeping regulatory overhaul

Obama denies the state of California aid

White House Health Reform Communications Director is Former ABC News Correspondent Linda Douglas

VIDEO: Obama on the Fox news,"One television network devoted entirely to attacking my administration"

Obama Accuses Fired Inspector General of AmeriCorps of Being 'Confused, Disoriented'

Key Obama Ally, Inspector General of the Corporation for National and Community Service, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo, Says President Obama Did Not Follow the Law in IG Firing

Former AmeriCorps Official, Gerald Walpin, Says Obama Removed Him for 'Doing My Job'

An Obama administration official says the Treasury will propose the creation of a regulatory agency to protect consumers in their credit, savings and other banking transactions.

Attorney General Eric Holder says recent violent attacks show the need for a tougher hate crimes law.

Former President Jimmy Carter passed a message to Hamas from the Obama administration, according to senior sources in the Islamist group

Sotomayor tells senator Demint that she "never thought about" rights of the unborn on abortion

Obama and Democrats Try To Sneak $100 Billion Stealth Bailout To European Banks

ABC turns over its programming over to Obama.  News to be anchored from inside the White House.  Obama officials to push for government run health care.

Obama seeks new powers to seize companies

Chrysler dealers say they were threatened and lied to during final days

Obama's claim of 46 million uninsured Americans includes 10 million foreigners

Obama traveled to Chicago Monday for a major speech on health care, but most of the reporters who cover him every day stayed in Washington and watched it all on TV.

"The List" for 6/15/2009

Obama insists that the post-election violence in Iran and accusations of vote-rigging have not changed his outlook on the value of outreach to the clerical regime. While denouncing violence against demonstrators, Obama said he remains committed to what he called "tough, hardheaded diplomacy"

The U.S. administration is prepared to show flexibility on construction in West Bank settlements, a government source in Jerusalem says. The Americans will apparently not demand a full freeze on construction, but will agree that projects now underway can be completed, Israeli officials say.

Obama increased unemployment benefits as part of his economic stimulus, he also made some Americans ineligible for hundreds of dollars a month in food stamps.  Under the economic recovery plan, laid-off workers have seen a $25 weekly bump in their unemployment checks as part of a broad expansion of benefits for the poor. But the law did not raise the income cap for food stamp eligibility, so the extra money has pushed some people over the limit.

VIDEO: Obama's real plans for health care

Obama announces another "czar" Kimberly Teehee as senior policy advisor for native American Affairs

Britain's David Miliband calls Hillary Clinton to voice anger over Guantánamo inmates' transfer to Bermuda

Shares of hospital operators fell on Monday after U.S. President Obama proposed more cuts to Medicare programs to pay for healthcare reforms

Doctors boo Obama at AMA speech

Palistinians: "No matter what is the position of the Israeli government and no matter what are the statements of Netanyahu, what counts is what was promised to us by Obama, which is totally the opposite [of Netanyahu's positions]."

Dennis Ross, who most recently served as a special State Department envoy to Iran, will abruptly be relieved of his duties

Obama pushed hard Monday for a health care overhaul, saying the system is "a ticking bomb" for the budget that could force America to "go the way of GM" without a legislative fix.

Obama offered the American Medical Association (AMA) an olive branch as he criticized it for its skepticism about a public insurance option

Former Gitmo detainees now living it up in Bermuda

Weeks after Obama took office, the CIA extended its contract with a firm run by two psychologists who helped introduce waterboarding, two months later, CIA Director Leon Panetta fired Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and all other contractors that aided the CIA in its interrogations of alleged terrorists

The Obama administration named Kenneth Feinberg, the lawyer who oversaw the government's compensation fund for victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, as its pay czar to police compensation of top earners at companies receiving "exceptional" government aid.

Obama’s strongest supporters among Jewish leaders are deeply troubled by his recent Middle East initiatives, and some are questioning what he really believes

Obama will release details on Wednesday of his proposed overhaul of how the government oversees banks and financial companies.

The Obama administration will target critical weaknesses in the troubled U.S. financial system, such as thin bank capital cushions and eroded lending standards, when it proposes an overhaul of financial regulation this week, two senior officials said on Monday

Obama is ready to roll out an overhaul of the intricate rules and systems that govern America's troubled financial institutions, proposing the most ambitious revision since the Great Depression.

Obama's Air Force One flight to Chicago and back on Monday to cost $236,000  not counting Secret Service protection, motorcades, and helicopter transports

"The List" for 6/14/2009

CIA head says Cheney almost wishing US be attacked

 Lack of votes seen for Obama healthcare program

Obama has said that the new cyberdefense strategy he unveiled last month will provide protections for personal privacy. Pentagon says they don't think so

Obama's Twentieth Week in Office

[Nachum]

For those who are keeping track.

The full list is at the website: www.nachumlist.com.

[Jet Jaguar]

BTTT

[unkus]

Thanks Nachum. I’m spreading this around.

[TheConservativeParty]

Zero is getting away with nomiating a member of La Raza to the SCOTUS. That is just sickening. Probably on the list a long time ago, but it really bugs me that belonging to a racist organization is not a problem when a liberal is being considered for the SCOTUS.

[Nachum]

Zero is getting away with nomiating a member of La Raza to the SCOTUS.

If you look at the list of his ethics violations, that is only one of many. He has, either personally, or by way of aides connections to some of the most radical collection of micreants ever in the history of the republic. He literally has set a mongrel hoard down upon the citizenry to usurp our democracy.

ACORN, socialists, communists, racists, racial identity politicians, rip off artists from wall street, banking scamming, sleezy attacks on our military, blistering assaults on free speech and on and on and on.

What is astounding is that he has attempted this war at a break neck pace in only 21 weeks in office. I fully expect to have a chapter in the list devoted to "gulag Gulf of Mexico" by the third year of his term.

[TheConservativeParty]

I know. The entirety of the offenses of Zero is so vast. Number one gripe I have, he’s not even a natural born citizen. That’s the crime that made all the rest of the offenses possible. He shouldn’t even be fake president. He hates America as much as that fly he murdered the other day (sarcasm on about the fly, but he does hate America).

[Free ThinkerNY]

Great work!