The List: Obama's Forty Sixth Week in Office

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[Nachum]

 Obama's Forty Sixth Week in Office

"The List" for 12/11/2009

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VIDEO and Audio: Obamacare bill will protect Medicare benefits for 3 Democratic voting counties

The White House: Republicans are against recovery

The Palestinian Authority has been negotiating an understanding with the Obama administration regarding a Palestinian threat to unilaterally ask the United Nations to recognize a Palestinian state outside of negotiations with Israel

"The List" for 12/10/2009

The Obama administration's pay czar, Ken Feinberg, will release new rulings Friday morning on the pay packages for some of the highest-paid employees at six companies receiving what the administration deems "exceptional assistance" from the government. The rulings will cover 2009 compensation for the 26th to 100th highest-paid employees at six companies: AIG, Citigroup, GM, Chrysler, and the automakers' respective financing arms -- GMAC and Chrysler Financial.  Feinberg will impose a $500,000 salary cap on these employees unless "good cause" can be proven

Obama donor, G.E., wins $1.4 Billion wind farm contract

Obama science advisors tell different stories about climate change to the same committee.  White House science czar John Holdren told members of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming that changes in global temperatures could mean a rise in sea levels of 6 feet or more in a century.
 -Joan Lubchenco, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told the same committee on the same day that changes in global temperatures could mean a rise in sea levels of up to 3.5 feet in this century.

Just over 31,000 homeowners have received permanent loan modifications under the Obama administration's mortgage relief plan, a big setback for the government's embattled effort to stem the foreclosure crisis.

Members of the Obama administration recently assured the Palestinian Authority that most Jewish communities in the strategic West Bank will be evacuated

Today, the Obama White House announced the nomination of Mari Del Carmen Aponte as U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador. It is not Ms. Aponte’s first brush with an ambassadorship. In 1998, President Clinton nominated her to be Ambassador to the Dominican Republic. She was forced to withdraw her name from consideration over allegations of ties to the Cuban spy agency.

VIDEO: Obama bashes the US at the Nobel acceptance.  -"Furthermore, America cannot insist that others follow the rules of the road if we refuse to follow them ourselves. For when we dont, our action can appear arbitrary, and undercut the legitimacy of future intervention — no matter how justified."

VIDEO: Obama accepts the Nobel Peace Prize

"The List" for 12/09/2009

VIDEO: Obama breaks vow on repayment of TARP money, "They should get every penny of their tax dollars back."

Audit: Taxpayers lose 61 billion on AIG and auto bailouts

Obama's doctore, John R . Lumpkin, was once (and may still be) an active member of the Communist Party USA.

Obama's break with 56 years of presidential tradition and send out a holiday card that says only "Season's Greetings'.  The tradition of presidents sending Christmas cards dates to Dwight Eisenhower in 1953.

Obama skips lunch with the king of Sweden and a visit to his own Nobel exhibit.  Swedes insulted.

Obama hires Sarah Palin enemy, Larry Persily, for the Alaska pipeline job

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, frustrated by the Justice Department's failure to explain the dismissal of charges against New Black Panther Party members who disrupted a Philadelphia polling place during last year's elections, has subpoenaed the department demanding records showing how the case was handled

Obama is spending almost $600 million to build community health centers and to make medical records easier to find.

Nearly $6 million in stimulus money was paid to two firms run by Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton’s pollster in 2008.

A White House power grab is built the health care bills and, if they fail, little-known twin bills called “MedPAC Reform of 2009” are waiting in the wings.  The bills, S.B. 1110 and H.R. 2718, craftily amend the Social Security Act and transfer the Medicare guideline and rule setting processes, from the legislative branch to the executive branch. 

The Obama administration will tell Congress Wednesday that it expects to lose about $30 billion of the $82 billion government bailout of the auto industry.  Gene Sperling, senior counsel to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, confirmed in an interview late today that the administration's forecast is that it will lose $30 billion on its auto investments -- but that's down from an earlier estimate of $44 billion.

 The extension of TARP maturity to coincide with 2011 midterm elections

The Taliban counter-strategy is based on the declared US strategy

"The List" for 12/08/2009

Obama is expected to announce that he wants Congress to redirect a certain portion of leftover Wall Street bailout funds toward job creation measures

Obama called for a major new burst of federal spending Tuesday, perhaps $150 billion or more, aiming to jolt the wobbly economy into a stronger recovery and reduce painfully persistent double-digit unemployment.

A proposal to enable the importation of cheaper prescription drugs could endanger the U.S. medicine supply and would be difficult to implement, the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday

Cash for Caulkers....Obama proposed a new program Tuesday that would reimburse homeowners for energy-efficient appliances and insulation, part of a broader plan to stimulate the economy. The administration didn't provide immediate details, but said it would work with Congress on crafting legislation. Steve Nadel, director at the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, who's helping write the bill, said a homeowner could receive up to $12,000 in rebates.

The Congressional Budget Office predicts up to 10 million people would lose employer-sponsored health care coverage under Senate Democratic health care reform plan.

In October and November, the government spent $292 billion more than it took in, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said.

Failures cripple Obama loan modification program.  Executives of two of the nation's largest banks, Chase and Bank of America, testified in Congress this morning that as many as 85 percent of delinquent mortgages are failing the Administration's loan modification process because homeowners haven't made trial payments or have failed to supply the necessary documentation to support their claims.

Obama outlined new multibillion-dollar stimulus and jobs proposals, saying the nation must continue to "spend our way out of this recession" until more Americans are back at work.

Obama is expected to announce that he wants Congress to redirect a certain portion of leftover Wall Street bailout funds toward job creation measures

The White House lashed out at the Gallup Poll on Tuesday after the survey's daily tracking numbers showed President Obama's approval rating dropping to a new low of 47 percent.

Nancy-Ann DeParle, one Obama's chief advocates for the health care reform bill, earned more than $6.6 million as a paid director for health care firms, some of which were targeted in government investigations or whistleblower lawsuits on suspicions of billing fraud and other legal problems.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates arrived in this war-torn country Tuesday morning on an unannounced visit, prepared to offer U.S. troops a message from Washington after President Obama's decision to boost troop levels significantly: "We are in this thing to win."

"The List" for 12/07/2009

The Interior Department on Monday gave the go-ahead for Shell Oil to begin drilling three exploratory wells in the Chukchi Sea , a move that opens the door for offshore oil and gas production in the Arctic .

White House: EPA decision had nothing to do with  Copenhagen.  "Climategate" scandal will have no effect

The EPA document on greenhouse gases

The Obamas balked at a White House nativity scene

The entire strategy for forcing Obamacare on the American public, was written by the husband of Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) convicted felon Robert Creamer, who wrote his heathcare strategy manifesto while he was in precision. Even the strategies for selecting the opponents of the President's plan to target with propaganda were selected under this plan.

Obama stimulus plan costs $246,436 per job

Obama and the First Family were planning a “non-religious Christmas,” according to Social Secretary Desiree Rogers.

The Obama administration is seeking to reverse a federal appeals court decision that dramatically narrows the government’s search-and-seizure powers

The projected long-term cost of the government's bailout of the nation's big banks is going to be at least $200 billion less than previously thought, a United States Treasury Department official said  The Obama administration had estimated the cost to taxpayers of the $700-billion Troubled Asset relief Program, or TARP, would be $341 billion but now says it can cut that by $200 billion

Environmental Protection Agency has concluded greenhouse gases are endangering people's health and must be regulated.

National Public Radio's Mara Liasson has been told to "reconsider her regular appearances on Fox News".  NPR denies any influence by the Obama administration.

"The List" for 12/06/2009

Gen. David Petraeus: In developing his plan for a troop surge in Afghanistan, President Obama acknowledged the success of the surge in Iraq and used some of its lessons to develop a plan in Afghanistan, the head of Central Command said Sunday.

Executives at Comcast, the media behemoth looking to buy a 51 percent stake in NBC Universal, have given large sums of money to presidential candidate Barack Obama and Democrats in recent years

The US will launch a new effort to capture or kill Osama bin Laden, says US national security advisor James Jones

Obama holds closed door meeting on openness.  A workshop on government openness is closed to the public;  An event for federal employees

 Obama's Secretary of Defense Robert Gates: Won't abandon Afghanistan and no time table for withdrawal

[Nachum]

Where does the time go? Week forty six of King Obama's rain.

For those who are keeping track.

Let me know if you'd like to be on or off the ping list...

[Gator113]

Why does it feel like it been 233 years?

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Still waiting for my pony.

[Nachum]

Why does it feel like it been 233 years?

Obama years = dog years

[FrankR]

Someone needs to add up all the bailouts, stimulus, cash for clunkers, czar pay, dates on AF1, etc......divide all that by 46, and see how much this mack-daddy is costing us weekly...probably more than I make anyway.

[Nachum]

Actually there are several articles published on the amount of spending of this administration. This was of course before the health care wammy is shoved up our...er down our throats.

I believe that the numbers made him the biggest spender in the history of the country.