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Obama's Forty Seventh Week in Office

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"The List" for 12/18/2009

Settling for something small rather than a big nothing, President Barack Obama and four peers on Friday brokered a climate policy framework that other nations reportedly agreed to support as the U.N. climate summit here wraps up.

Chinese premier snubs Obama at private meeting on climate

VIDEO: Obama bows again in Copenhagen

"We've done what we can here," a senior White House official in Copenhagen, Denmark, tells ABC News. "The Chinese are dug in on transparency and are refusing to let people know they're living up to their end of the agreement."

After Obama comes to the Climate summit, India and China walk out

Speculation on ABC getting financially rewarded by the Obama adminstration for their prime time special for Obamacare

The Obama administration is planning to repatriate six Yemenis held at the U.S. military prison at GITMO, a transfer that could be a prelude to the release of dozens more detainees to Yemen

 G.M. to shut down Saab

43 Exectutive orders by Obama so far

"The List" for 12/17/2009

Rep. Frank Wolf turned up the heat on the Justice Department yesterday, introducing a Resolution of Inquiry that recounts the degree to which the Justice Department has stonewalled on efforts to find out why a serious case of voter intimidation was dismissed. Wolf wants the attorney general to hand over to the House all information relating to the dismissal of the case United States v. New Black Panther Party, the egregious voter-intimidation case that was captured on videotape.

Democrat districts received twice the amount of stmulus funds as GOP districts.  A new analysis of the $157 billion distributed by the American Reinvestment and Recovery act, popularly known as the stimulus bill, shows that the funds were distributed without regard for what states were most in need of jobs.

Obama's recent nominee for ambassador to El Salvador, Mari Del Carmen Aponte was forced to withdraw her nomination to another diplomatic post a decade ago following concerns about ties to Cuba,

U.S. to contibute to $100 Billion fund to help developing countries: Hillary Clinton

Obama still has not articulated his national security strategy deep into his first year in office

Trying to stave off a sudden fusillade from the left, White House senior adviser David Axelrod said Thursday that Howard Dean's criticisms of health-care reform are "predicated on a bunch of erroneous conclusions" and that for progressives to torpedo the legislation "would be a tragic, tragic outcome."  “To defeat a bill that will bend the curve on this inexorable rise in health-care costs is insane,

"The List" for 12/16/2009

U.S. President Barack Obama has warned his Chinese counterpart that the United States would not be able to keep Israel from attacking Iranian nuclear installations for much longer, said senior officials in Jerusalem

Sen. Joe Lieberman, who chairs a Senate oversight committee, chided the Obama administration Tuesday for not providing information to lawmakers probing the Fort Hood killings.  The Connecticut independent said his Homeland Security panel still has not received the personnel file of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist charged in the Nov. 5 shooting spree that left 13 people dead.

The latest calculation of the National Debt as posted by the Treasury Department has - at least numerically - exceeded the statutory Debt Limit approved by Congress last February as part of the Recovery Act stimulus bill.

The CBO Memo "Budgetary Treatment of Proposals to Regulate Medical Loss Ratios.

This weekend, the Congressional Budget Office released a strange memo titled, " Budgetary Treatment of Proposals to Regulate Medical Loss Ratios".  You wouldn’t know it from the title, but that little memo is the smoking gun that shows how congressional Democrats have very carefully hidden more than half the cost of their health care bills.

VIDEO: Obama scare tactics over health bill

A new report by Vice President Joe Biden, which President Obama mentioned briefly in an appearance Tuesday, projects that the number of U.S. homes with smart meters will jump from about 8 million now to 40 million by 2015.

The White House will announce plans Wednesday to provide another $5 billion in tax credits for manufacturers of wind, solar, electric vehicle and other renewable energy products, hoping to leverage at least $15 billion in private investment and create "tens of thousands" of jobs.

Bank holding company Washington Mutual has asked a federal court for the power to make the Federal Reserve, the U.S. Treasury, and a long list of other parties turn over documents and witness interviews related to the bank's 2008 collapse.

The Justice Department has told the federal attorneys who filed a civil complaint against the New Black Panther Party for disrupting a Philadelphia polling place last year not to cooperate with an investigation of the incident by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Obama goes back on his promise to get tough with Big Pharma.  

VIDEO: Hillary Clinton takes a possible swipe at Obama, "Our outreach on Iran has produced very little"

The United States and Egypt, along with France, are planning a joint move to restart Israeli-Palestinian talks on the basis of the June 4, 1967, borders, territorial exchanges and a complete freeze of construction beyond the Green Line, including East Jerusalem. The freeze would not be announced publicly.

"The List" for 12/15/2009

Obama warns Democrats that this is their last chance to pass comprehensive reform

The federal government quietly agreed to forgo billions of dollars in potential tax payments from Citigroup as part of the deal announced this week to wean the company from the massive taxpayer bailout that helped it survive the financial crisis.

ACORN cookies are at the White House holiday party

Nelson aid now says Offut Air Base closure threat claim is false

Obama threatens to close a Nebraska's Offutt Air Force Base if Nebraska's Senator Ben Nelson does not support Obamacare.  Offutt Air Force Base employs some 10,000 military and federal employees in Southeastern Nebraska. As our source put it, this is a "naked effort by Rahm Emanuel and the White House to extort Nelson's vote." They are "threatening to close a base vital to national security for what?" asked the Senate staffer.

Report: Obama colluding with the left to subvert his own Afghanistan policy

In a victory for people with cancer and other serious medical problems, the White House agreed Friday to help close a loophole in the Senate health bill allowing annual dollar limits on their care. The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network first called attention to a clause tucked into the Senate bill under the caption "No lifetime or annual limits" that would in fact permit such caps.

VIDEO: Joe Biden, re- President Obama's message to Senate Democrats today at the White House regarding Health Care. Biden said Obama will make it clear that this is the last chance to pass Health Care Reform, and that if it fails, "it will be kicked back for a generation."\

Top Wall Street brass "phones in" to Obama meeting and blow off attending

Obamacare would make some middle-class American families pay what amounts to a $15,200 annual federally-mandated insurance fee, according to facts revealed in analyses published by the Congressional Budget Office.

The Obama administration will announce today that it has picked the The Thomson Correctional Center in western Illinois to house some detainees now held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,

"The List" for 12/14/2009

Plans from Wells Fargo & Co and Citigroup to repay taxpayer funds will put the U.S. government on track to reduce its bailout investments in banks by more than 75 percent, while earning a healthy profit for the U.S., U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Monday.

New details on President Barack Obama's "Safe Schools Czar" Kevin Jennings have emerged, as an eye-witness has finally broken her silence and says that Jennings was present at Tufts University during the infamous "Fistgate" scandal, and says that he bears personal responsibility for the event.

Mark Lloyd, the chief diversity officer and associate counsel at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), says he is not part of a “secret plot funded by George Soros” aimed at getting rid of conservative talk-show hosts Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

Obama has has called all Senate Democrats to the White House tomorrow for a “make-or-break” meeting to advance health care reform

More than $43 million of federal stimulus money meant to save or create jobs is being spent on salaries and benefits for outgoing employees by Iowa’s three state universities.

Blagojevich's lawyers seek FBI interview with Obama....- Rod Blagojevich's lawyers want the FBI to give up details of interviews conducted last year of President Obama, his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, White House adviser Valerie Jarrett and others as part of the investigation into the former governor. In a Friday filing, Blagojevich attorneys also asked for information regarding first lady Michelle Obama.

Congressional investigators looking into the abrupt firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin have discovered that the head of AmeriCorps met with a top aide to First Lady Michelle Obama the day before Walpin was removed.

Obama tells bankers that he wants them to lend more and support his legislation

Obama meets with bankers after bashing them

VIDEO: Obama on "60 Minutes" says his biggest frustration is having to do things that have benefited the "fat cats" on Wall Street in order to help stabilize the nation's financial system

President Obama is calling on the financial industry to help dig the economy out of the pit the White House says it helped create, as the president and bank executives headed into a potentially tense meeting Monday morning. 

VIDEO: Obama gives himself a B+ or A- and compares himself to Franklin Roosevelt

Kevin Jennings' Fistgate Conference Gave Teachers DOE Professional Credit

"The List" for 12/13/2009

AUDIO: From 2004, Obama in his own words describing the plan to expand Medicare as a prelude to a single payer medical system

New military rules of engagement ostensibly to protect Afghan civilians are putting the lives of U.S. forces in jeopardy, claim Army and Marine sources, as the Taliban learns to game plan based the rules' imposed limits

Chicago Board of Education links Obama Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to investigation of financial fraud at Chicago Public Schools, death of Michael Scott.  U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin discloses Arne Duncan is subject of Chicago Board of Education financial fraud investigation

Larry Summers and Christina Romer say Obama will press bankers Monday to ease lending to help Americans get back to work.

VIDEO: 2002- Attorney General Eric Holder "Detainees not covered by Geneva Convention"

The Democratic-led Senate on Sunday passed and sent to President Barack Obama an end-of-year $1.1 trillion spending bill that includes money to run much of the government and pay for health care benefits for the poor and elderly.

A new report from economic analysts at the Health and Human Services Department said the nation's $2.5 trillion annual health-care tab would not shrink under Obamacare but would grow somewhat more rapidly than if Congress did nothing.

Dueling VIDEOS: White house advisor Lawrence Summers, director of the National Economic Council, says the recession is over....but- White House economic adviser ChristinaRomer says: "Of course not. For the people on Main Street and throughout this country, they are still suffering, the unemployment rate is still 10 percent."

The top White House economic adviser says "everybody agrees the recession is over"

 

 

[Nachum]

The list, for this week. For those who are keeping track.

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[Jack Hammer]

President Barack Hussein Obama, on the top three accomplishments of my adminstration during the year 2009:

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[Jack Hammer]

On the other hand, while not terribly significant in terms of legislative weight, I am proud to say that I have been able to:

1. Increase the national debt in the space of under a year by several hundred billion dollars.

2. Keep the place of my birth, as well as other significant details of my background, secret from the people who elected me to office.

3. See to it that our troops in Afghanistan were hampered in their efforts to survive as they eliminate global terrorists intent on predation upon Americans and other civilized peoples - hobbling the troops with virtually impossible Rules of Engagement. And (an especial point of pride) initiate court martial proceedings against our Navy SEALS for punching in the mouth - and thus seriously bruising his lip while causing him great personal inconvenience - a known terrorist who had committed wanton acts of murder.

There - now aren’t you glad I’m your president!

And, finally, I would like to take this opportunity, at this special time of year - while you’re out there scratching out a pecarious living in the economic shambles I’ve created - by wishing you a Very Merry and Happy Unemployment. I know that, as I hold here at the White House an unprecedented level of parties and related social functions for my supporters, you’ll be attempting as best you can to savor your holiday roast beast.

[Phlap]

Attaining the leadership was easy. Being a leader is hard.

He can orate but what substance is there? An empty suit has more. Being a compromiser is not going to cut it no mater the issue and to date that is all he has done. It started with the stimulus to "pull us back from the brink" that was less than he needed.

Next Cap and Trade went no where in the senate and he followed that up with letting the congress lead on health care yielding nothing similar to the real goal.

He is Jimmy Carter redux but worse and we are stuck with him for 3 more years. God help us all.