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 Obama's Forty Fifth Week in Office

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"The List" for 12/04/2009

At the Obama Jobs "summit";   of the list of the leaders invited, the majority are labor union leaders, leaders of businesses with government contracts, or leaders of businesses that operate on partial public funding. 6 big unions are included: Anna Burger, Change to Win, Leo Gerard, United Steel Workers, Joe Hansen, United Food and Commercial Workers, Randi Weingarten AFT. Suspicions of ACORN involvement.

White House: Iran has one month to respond

Obama Safe School Czar,Kevin Jennings, promotes pornographic mateirals for grades 7-12

Obama: We want to make sure people buying health care don't get gypped

After taking Bailout money, Chrysler hires Italian ad agency

The House Ethics Committee will probe the actions of Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), chair of the Homeland Security Committee, for his sudden interest in what looked to be an unrelated field — credit card companies

Nevada has overestimated the number of higher education jobs so far "retained" with federal stimulus aid, according to a state budget official. The revised count is about 1,400, a steep drop from the nearly 2,100 that state and federal officials have touted for weeks.

"The List" for 12/03/2009

Under Obamacare, Medicare part D drug benefits to be reduced, Senior benefits hurt

Mickey Rooney, who has met every previous president since FDR, tried to crash the White House by showing up without an appointment while he was in town early last month and was turned away

Obama administration laments decision by Hondorus to not reinstate Zelaya

VIDEO: Dr. Quentin Young - a longtime mentor and friend to Barack Obama, and a vocal advocate of Socialized Medicine - saying President Obama is being "dishonest" when he says it is not necessary to bring a "Single-Payer" Health Care System (Socialized Medicine) to America.

VIDEO: Obama says there is not enough public money to pay for the economic meltdown

Obama refers to "I" and "Me" 44 times in his West Point speech

The White House indicated it will fight any congressional attempts to subpoena an administration official to testify about the security breach at last week’s state dinner.

Secret Service Director says that threats against Obama are not more than other presidents

House Republicans attack Obama science advisers over climate-gate letter scandal.  Reading letters aloud in Congress

Al-Qaeda followers are inside the United States and would like to attack targets here and in other countries, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday night.

White House claims guest list flap "an internal affair covered by executive privilege." No cooperation

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to implement strenuous new regulations regarding carbon dioxide emissions without authorizing legislation from congress.

Obamacare bills seek the forced unionization of the entire health care industry.  Under the Dept. of Health and Human Services (DHHS) a union-stacked “personal care attendants workforce advisory panel” would be established.. This panel would have the authority to compel union affiliation – and payment of union dues – in exchange for allowing “private” providers access to federal reimbursements for community care.

Now the Pakistanis are skeptical about Obama's new Afghanistan plan

 

"The List" for 12/02/2009

The United States reversed policy on Wednesday and said it would back launching talks on a treaty to regulate arms sales as long as the talks operated by consensus, a stance critics said gave every nation a veto. The decision, announced in a statement released by the U.S. State Department, overturns the position of former President George W. Bush's administration, which had opposed such a treaty on the grounds that national controls were better.

Obama's top science adviser urged lawmakers to act to curb emissions of greenhouse gases, despite the uproar over emails in which some prominent climate scientists appeared to advocate squelching the views of researchers skeptical that human activity is driving a dangerous rise in global temperatures.  John Holdren, said scientists generally are capable of defensiveness, bias and "misbehavior." But he said the meaning of some of the statements in the emails isn't clear, and that the significance of others has been exaggerated.  Human activity is "beyond any reasonable doubt" the primary cause of warming temperatures, Holdren said.

The EPA said Monday that it would probably increase the amount of ethanol that gasoline retailers could blend into ordinary fuel, to 15 percent, if tests established that the blend would not damage cars.

4582 words in Obama's Afghan war speech.  Victory is not one of the words in the speech.

When President Obama spoke to troops at Alaska's Elmendorf Air Force Base last month, the unit there parked a shiny new F-22 fighter plane in the hanger. But according to multiple sources, White House aides demanded the plane be changed to an older F-15 fighter because they didn't want Obama speaking in front of the F-22, a controversial program he fought hard to end.

Obama’s announcement of an exit strategy for US troops in Afghanistan is causing ripples in India

Intelligence officials on Wednesday disputed suggestions that President Obama is sending 30,000 more troops just to fight 100 Al Qaeda operatives estimated to be remaining in Afghanistan, arguing that their influence with the Taliban makes them far more harmful than their numbers would indicate. 

California Medical Association opposes Obamacare

The Obama administration on Wednesday approved the first human embryonic stem cells for experiments by federally funded scientists.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, under tough questioning, said the Pentagon will "evaluate" next year whether the military can meet its goal of starting to withdraw troops from Afghanistan by July 2011

Latest Joe Biden Gaffe: "Nuclear state of Afghanistan"

Stonewalling: The White House says it will not send social secretary Desiree Rogers up to the Hill to testify about how a couple of alleged gate-crashers sashayed into the India state dinner last week uninvited.

Top White House science officials defended the validity of global warming research against repeated Republican attacks Wednesday that cited leaked e-mails from some climate researchers.

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday lashed out at President Obama for claiming the Bush administration rebuffed commanders' repeated requests for more troops in Afghanistan. "Such a bald misstatement, at least as it pertains to the period I served as secretary of defense, deserves a response,"

Peter Orszag, the White House director of Management and Budget, has compared the new health insurance mandate that would force every American to purchase coverage or pay a tax to seat belt laws

The White House budget director, Peter Orsag said Wednesday that it may take decades for America to have an efficient health caresystem even if Congress passes a major overhaul this year.

The head of the Federal Trade Commission, Jon Leibowitz, said Tuesday the agency will study whether government should aid struggling news organizations

U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Business are both excluded from Obama's "Jobs Summit"

"The List" for 12/01/2009

Only a handful of the thousands of troops in the U.S. Marines' main base in Afghanistan, Camp Leatherneck, thought it worth the effort to get out of bed for President Obama's speech on Afghanistan, which began at 5:30 a.m. local time

Young cadet falls asleep during Obama West Point Speech

Obama's reception at West Point...... vs.....Bush's reception

Obama has established a new presidential bioethics council that may feature advisors who could push his decision to force taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research even further. They could advise Obama that his administration should push human cloning.

U.S. to stop counting new missiles in Russia

Obama in July, 2007; " Iraq troop surge isn't working "

117 service men have died in Afghanistan since Obama's 93 days of "dithering" on his decision

Obama begins to "duck" the White House press corps.  Suggestion of "over exposure"

Obama plans to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan over six months, an accelerated timetable — with an endgame built in — that would have the first Marines there as early as Christmas, a senior administration official told The Associated Press.

First Afghan troop withdrawals goal- begin withdrawals in 2011

Obama says he want Aghan war over in 3 years

Obama to spend two nights in Oslo for Peace Prize functions

Less than 10%. of Obama's cabinet appoints have had employment in the private sector

VIDEO: Glenn Beck on how many Obama cabinet appointments have had employment in the private sector- under 10%

"The List" for 11/30/2009

Van Jones, Obama's controversial former "green jobs" czar, serves on the advisory board of an independent environmental organization actively working with the White House. Jones is one of 20 advisers to the University of Colorado-based Presidential Climate Action Project, or PCAP, which draws up climate policy recommendations for the White House and has been working with members of the Obama administration.

Afghans fear Obama's talk of exit strategy.  Think that the Taliban will just bide their time.

Biden, not Obama briefs Canada on Afghan surge

Even if health bill passes, reforms will not take effect until 2014; enforcement in doubt

Language to include coverage for illegal aliens remains in Obamacare bill

The Obama administration announced a new campaign to get mortgage companies to lower mortgage payments for struggling homeowners – and part of the strategy is some old-fashioned "name and shame."

White House spokesman Gibbs discounts the climate scandal memos and research dispute.  Administration says there is still global warming

Page 1239 of the Senate health care bill titled "Reasonable Break Time for Nursing Mothers" says employers shall provide "a reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk for her nursing child for 1 year after the child's birth time each time such employee has need to express the milk

The United States on Monday recognized the "ample victory" of Honduras president-elect Porfirio Lobo

CATO Institute: Obamacare could top $6 Trillion

Obamacare: Individual insurance premiums would increase by an average of 10 percent or more, according to an analysis of the Senate healthcare bill.

Republican investigators on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's 88-page report on ACORN’s systemic corruption and flagrant racketeering

The Justice Dept's legal opinion to reject suspension of ACORN funding

Attorney General Eric Holder’s Justice Department released a legal opinion last week that allows the Obama administration to ignore the will of Congress which has voted overwhelmingly to suspend federal funding of ACORN until at least Dec. 18. He’s also ignored the 88 page report on ACORN's systemic corruption and flagrant racketeering activities that was issued this summer by Republican investigators on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

VIDEO: Joe Biden sells Obamacare on the White House website, "Who do you trust"

Obama's proposed increase in Medicaid eligibility will have a huge impact on the 39 states whose income cutoffs for the program are below those required in the new federal legislation. All states except for Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont and Wisconsin (plus the District of Colombia) will have to raise their eligibility for Medicaid under the Senate health care bill. And they will have to pay for part of the cost. Under the House bill, with a higher Medicaid eligibility standard, Massachusetts and Vermont would also have to pay more. The magnitude of the new Medicaid spending required by Obamacare is such as to transform the nature of state finances. A large part of the reason that some states, particularly in the South, have been able to avoid higher taxes is because they have chosen to keep down the Medicaid eligibility level.

"The List" for 11/29/2009

he Dept. of Health and Human Services would become federal giant under Obama plan. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius would be awarded unprecedented new powers under the proposal, including the authority to decide what medical care should be covered by insurers as well as the terms and conditions of coverage and who should receive it.

President Obama's new anti-Semitism czar, Hannah Rosenthal, was a 1960's anti-war activist and community organizer whose husband worked with the founder of a socialist party, of which, according to documentary evidence, Obama was a member

White House statement of the Iranian plans to build 10 more uranium enrichment plants

"For-Profit" schools haul in government aid money.  An Associated Press analysis shows surging proportions of both low-income students and the recently boosted government money that follows them are ending up at for-profit schools, from local career colleges to giant publicly traded chains such as the University of Phoenix, Kaplan and Devry.

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