The List, for Obama's 39th Week in office

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 Obama's Thirty Ninth Week in Office

Latest Additions to "The List"

"The List" for 10/23/2009  

Michelle Obama took part in a White House event to mark National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Mrs. Obama used the occasion to launch an extended attack on the insurance industry

The White House has told Congress it will reject calls for many of President Obama's policy czars to testify before Congress - a decision senators said goes against the president's promises of transparency and openness and treads on Congress' constitutional mandate to investigate the administration's actions.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told CNSNews.com that after reviewing the Memorandum of Agreements between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and state and local law enforcement agencies in 23 states, the only agency to lose its authority under the 287(g) program to operate task forces that can enforce federal immigration laws is the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. The Office of Sheriff Joe Arpaio

The Obama administration on Thursday failed in its attempt to manipulate other news networks into isolating and excluding Fox News, as Republicans on Capitol Hill stepped up their criticism of the hardball tactics employed by the White House.

President Obama has difficulty reading from his teleprompter during a speech at MIT

"The List" for 10/22/2009  

The Obama administration has allegedly offered to enrich Iranian uranium.  The Iranians have not been able to remove low percentages of metallic fluorides from the UF-6 feed stock that they've laboriously enriched to 3.5% U-235 over the past five years. This has the potential to stop their enrichment program cold—at the level used for civilian nuclear power. The Obama administration has offered to have Iran's impure 3.5% UF6 shipped to Russia where it can be enriched to 19.75%

Obama's FCC commissioners ram through support for internet regulation measure

Speaking privately at the White House on with a group of columnists and commentators, including Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann of MSNBC and Maureen Dowd, Frank Rich and Bob Herbert of The New York Times, Obama gave vent to sentiments about Fox

The White House tries to bar  Fox News from interviews with the pay czar

The Senate passed legislation that would make it a federal crime to assault an individual because of his or her sexual orientation or gender identity. Obama has said the country must make significant changes to ensure equal rights. The expanded federal hate crimes law now goes to Obama's desk. Obama has pledged to sign the measure

Obama stimulus: tax credits for electric golf carts

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently analyzed the House bill 3200 for the effect of the bill on health care costs-.  The nation's medical costs will keep spiraling upward even faster than they are now under Democratic legislation pending in the House

Large employers that directly assume the cost and risk of health coverage for their workers — including Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Caterpillar Inc. and Xerox — wouldn't be subject to the same rules and restrictions that would be imposed on health insurers in the measure approved this month by the Senate Finance Committee.

A day after former Vice President Dick Cheney charged the Obama administration with "dithering" over its strategy for the war in Afghanistan, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs returned fire with guns blazing.  "What Vice President Cheney calls dithering, President Obama calls his solemn responsibility to the men and women in uniform,

VIDEO: Obama appointee Chai Feldblum not convinced that traditional marrieage is good for society

4 Year Old buys a house with federal money

VIDEO: SEIU president Andy Stern connecting the Obama admistration's attacks on the U.S.Chamber of Commerce to the SEIU

Sources within the administration say the decision to cap corporate pay was White House pay cza Kenneth Feinberg’s, and his alone

Google is suspected of blacklisting FOX news stories

Obama economy: First-time jobless claims rise more than expected to 531,000, continuing claims fall - The Labor Department says new jobless claims rose to a seasonally adjusted 531,000 last week, from an upwardly revised 520,000 the previous week. Wall Street economists had expected only a slight increase

VIDEO: Obama says about Republicans, "You know the other side, they just kind of do what they’re told."

Obama spent 2.5 hours with talk show host Rachel Madow and only spent 25 minutes with General McChrystal

"The List" for 10/21/2009  

Obama's Dept. of Health and Human Services to Create a National Resource Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Elders.  HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced plans to establish the nation's first national resource center to assist communities across the country in their efforts to provide services and supports for older lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals.

Barack Obama has suffered the worst third quarter decline in his public approval rating of any elected president in the post-World War II era.

Mark Lloyd, newly appointed Chief Diversity Officer of the Federal Communications Commission, has called for making private broadcasting companies pay licensing fees equal to their total operating costs to allow public broadcasting outlets to spend the same on their operations as the private companies do

List of new taxes in the Obama/Baucus plan

Obama has had 22 fundraisers in his first year... so far

The analysis by the Obama Health and Human Services Dept concludes that total national health care spending would increase by an additional 2.1 percent from , 2010-2019 under legislation in the House

White House to cut the pay of execs by 90%

7 months after stimulus, 49 of 50 states have lost jobs.  6 million jobs less than adminstration projections

No mention of Obama on Google from 1981 until 2000

VIDEO: Obama says in 2008 campaign ad, " I don't want to pit red America against blue America..."

Obama Administration HHS website promotes pro-abortion health care bills

The Obama State Dept.: Gitmo detainees are "Refugees"

Senate to act on the Obama threat to strip health insurers of anti-trust exemption

Congress passed the 2010 homeland security spending bill that gives President Obama the authority to transfer terrorism-suspect detainees to the United States for trial, though only after he submits a plan to Congress.

TARP watchdog Neil Barofsky: Full payment of TARP funds "unlikely"

Steps taken by the Treasury Department to implement the $700 billion financial bailout program have undermined the credibility of the U.S. government, a top government watchdog, Neil Barofsky, said in a report released on Wednesday.

Obama cap and trade bill will mean gas will cost another $1 per gallon

"The List" for 10/20/2009  

Obama is now making good on the promise to promote Planned Parenthood.  Planned Parenthood is now on his new volunteerism website, serv.gov

Anita Dunn, the White House communications director who has blasted Fox as an arm of the Republican Party is married to Robert Bauer, the chief of the political law group at Perkins Coie.   Perkinds Coie is the Seattle law firm hired by the White House to defend Obama in court cases challenging his "natural born" citizenship status in the United States and thus, his eligibility under the U.S. Constitution to be president.

After President Obama announced last month that he would scrap Bush-era plans to deploy an antiballistic missile system in Eastern Europe, will accept an offer to host parts of a new, more mobile missile defense system, Polish officials said Tuesday.

Obama won a modest victory in his continuing effort to closeGITMO, allowing the government to continue to transfer detainees at the facility to the U.S. to be prosecuted.

Obama considers taking medical malpractice out of the courtroom

Pages 39 and 40 of the Health Care bill talk of possible rationed care for "high risk" individuals "reducing benefits... increasing premiums...establishing waiting lists.."

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that the Obama administration cannot wait for the Afghan election to be resolved before making a decision on troop levels, appearing to be at odds with White House officials who have tied a decision on U.S. strategy to the resolution of the election and political stability.

China goes after US made Nylon in trade war began by Obama's tariff on Chinese tires

Secret meetings over health care reach day 7- The White House and Democratic leaders are offering doctors a deal: They’ll freeze cuts in Medicare payments to doctors in exchange for doctors’ support of healthcare reform.

Great Lakes shippers are upset over new EPA proposals.  The EPA wants to wean older lakers off their diet of inexpensive No. 6 “bunker” fuel to reduce sulfur levels 50 percent in 2012 and help prevent tens of thousands of premature deaths. The entire fleet would convert to low-sulfur marine diesel by 2015.But lake carriers say the effort could backfire if it drives more cargo to trucks and trains, which burn more fuel and emit more pollutants per ton of cargo than ships do.

AUDIO: story... Justice Dept. officials impesonate reporters at press conference for Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpio

VIDEO: Ron Bloom, Obama's Manufacturing czar "We know that the free market is nonsense"..."kind of agrees with Mao- that power comes from the end of a gun"

Obama hasreportedly informed the German government that he will not travel to Berlin on November 9 to participate in the 20th-anniversary celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall. He will skip the memorial of the fall of communism.

"The List" for 10/19/2009  

Israeli shot in his car.  Attack directly attributed to the Obama forced removal of roadblocks

Page 163 of Senate Finance Committee Health bill- health care tax on empolyer paid insurance to begin in January 2010

Voters in Kinston, North Carolina decided overwhelmingly last year to do away with the party affiliation of candidates in local elections, but the Obama administration recently overruled the electorate and decided that equal rights for black voters cannot be achieved without the Democratic Party.

Pentagon chief Robert Gates says Obama may not be able to wait until the disputed Afghanistan elections are resolved to decide on a new war strategy.

Kathleen Sebelius: "I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program.

The entire Senate Finance Committee Health Bill

The Senate Finance Committee members have been notified that the committee's health reform bill was filed today. S. 1796 weighs in at 1,502 pages

VIDEO: Karl Rove, "..(the Obama administration) "is trying to destabilize Afghanistan in a fundamental way"

The White House and congressional Democrats are working to marginalize the Chamber of Commerce— the powerful business lobby opposed to many of Obama’s first-year priorities — by going around the group and dealing directly with the CEOs of major U.S. corporations.

After helping elect Obama, AKDP Media, the powerhouse political consulting firm founded by senior White House aide David Axelrod moved went to Kiev, capital of the Ukraine, to sign a lucrative contract to advise Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on her race for that country's presidency. The arrangement between Axelrod,, and Tymoshenko, a billionaire business tycoon once dubbed "The gas princess" has so far gotten no attention in the U.S. press. Axelrod's son now runs AKDP

Tens of billions of dollars in federal economic aid has created or saved 250,000 education jobs, the Obama administration announced Monday, although states and school systems continue to face enormous fiscal pressures. The figures in the report issued by the White House and the Education Department do not address how many education jobs have been cut this year because of the recession, nor do they project how many are in jeopardy in the coming year

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's nomination process was so controlled that the White House even approved her clothes

Federal drug agents won't persue pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers in states that allow medical marijuana under new legal guidelines by the Obama administration

"The List" for 10/18/2009

U.S. State tax revenues drops the most since 1963.   State tax collections tumbled the most in almost half a century in the second quarter as the economic recession curbed levies on incomes and sales. The 16.6 percent plunge was the biggest since at least 1963,  said the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government

Connecticut has received through September $1 million out of $47 Million in stimulus money and created 20 jobs

White House advisers pledged on Sunday to book administration officials on Fox News despite claims by the president's inner circle that the cable network is a GOP mouthpiece whose programming “is geared toward making money.”

VIDEO: Rahm Emanuel attacks Fox News- "It doesn't have 'perspective'..."

Axelrod attacks Fox News too, "Not really news.."

The Obama administration appears to be welcoming the efforts of the left-leaning Jewish lobby in Washington, J Street.  Senior U.S. administration will be attending the group's October 25 conference.  Officials who have confirmed their participation in the conference include James Jones, national security adviser in the Obama administration. Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren has still not acknowledged an invitation to address the conference. Oren apparently is inclined not to participate and to send a lower-ranking diplomat in his stead.

Secret Service is strained by increased number of death threats against Obama.

Obama and 3 senators, Harry Reid,Christopher Dodd, and Max Baucus wrote health bill behind closed doors.  No transparency

VIDEO: Anita Dunn saying that Obama's presidential campaign focused on "making" the news media cover certain issues while rarely communicating anything to the press unless it was "controlled

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The list for Comrade Obamsky for his 39th Week of Ofice

Let me know if you want to be on or off the ping list-

I have a vote for the official themesong of this administration....

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo9bKdIG_Yw

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BTTT

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Someone should create a list like SNL’s that includes every single campaign promise made by Obama, along with checkboxes next them: Completed Not Completed Retracted/Broken

My guess is that 99% of them would fall in the last 2 boxes, but the sheer impact of seeing how many promises he made, how few he’s kept, and the unbelievably large number he’s broken, might help continue to drive his poll numbers ever downward.
The faster we get him to 40%, the less likely it is that we’ll be stuck with a mop cleaning up after Obamacare...

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The Obamafile may have such a list. Also, this might be useful to you-

http://nachumlist.com/Obamaethics.htm