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| 3/11/10
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Posted on 03/11/2010 8:22:53 PM PST by Nachum
Obama's Fifty Ninth Week in Office
"The List" for 3/11/2010
VIDEO: White House spokesman Gibbs- Sees no reason why Supreme Court Justices should be "uncomfortable" with Obama's State of the Union attack
Joe Biden leaves, Israeli airstrikes resume in Gaza
White House: Indonesia is not a vacation
Obama will not attend the exclusive Gridiron Club Dinner (for the second year in a row) because of a scheduled trip overseas, White House aides say.
What Biden told Netanyahu behind closed doors: "This is starting to get dangerous for us"
The Senate Parliamentarian has ruled that President Barack Obama must sign Congress original health care reform bill before the Senate can act on a companion reconciliation package, senior GOP sources said Thursday.
Fitness magazine named Michelle Obama one of 10 role models committed to bringing healthy living, exercise and better nutrition to U.S. communities.
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) detailing federal investigations into the alleged corrupt activities of Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). The documents reference serious allegations of corruption and voter registration fraud by ACORN as well as the Obama administration's decision to shut down a criminal investigation without filing criminal charges.
Blagojevich: Naked, lobbying Massa in the showers? That's the Rahm I know.
The Obama administration has rolled back rules proposed by the Bush administration that expanded the financial disclosure statements required of labor unions and their leaders.
Behind closed doors, the Obama Administration, House and Senate Democrat leaders are cutting a secret deal on ObamaCare
Obama wants to double exports, and add more beaurocrats. His export bill includes a "mini-Cabinet of officials to focus on export'
Officials said the administration of President Barack Obama has warned Israel that its exercises along the borders with Lebanon and Syria were escalating regional tension. They said Israel has responded by canceling or reducing exercises meant to prepare for a war with Syria. "We are receiving daily phone calls from the Americans, who want to know details and schedules of exercises, what weapons will be used and in what scenarios," an official said.
Obama promised a turn toward fiscal discipline in his State of the Union Address. But his new budget doesn't just plan on more deficit spending for a year, followed by austerity. Rather, it actually increases deficits in each of the next ten years over what he'd planned for in last year's budget.
US Vice President Joe Biden tried to put the furor over announcement of plans to build 1,600 units in Ramat Shlomo behind him, saying during a speech Thursday at Tel Aviv University that he condemned the move because as a friend he was compelled to "deliver the hardest truth," but adding that he appreciated the clarifications he received on the matter from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyhau.He opened the speech by stressing the importance of US-Israel friendship and Washington's commitment to the security of the Jewish state, saying that "US President Barack Obama and myself know that the US has no better friend in the community of nations than Israel." Biden said that he realized that construction in east Jerusalem "is a very touchy subject in Israel," but because Israel's decision to advance the housing project, in his view, "undermined the trust required to conduct the negotiations, I at the request of President Obama condemned it immediately."
VIDEO: More than 2000 turn out to protest Obama speech on health care in St. Louis
Barack Obama's website caller's tips
Organizing for America, the community organizing outfit under the auspices of the Democratic National Committee, has launched a plan to inundate talk radio shows with callers.
"The List" for 3/10/2010
"People have lost faith in government -- they had lost faith in government before I ran (for president), and it has been getting worse," Obama said at a rally in St. Louis.
The Treasury Department said Wednesday that the February deficit totaled $220.9 billion, 14 percent higher than the previous record set in February of last year
Missouri Democrats decided they'd rather be somewhere else when President Obama came to St. Louis to push his massive health care overhaul plan.
France has vowed to retaliate against the United States for allegedly shutting Europe's aviation giant EADS out of a $50bn defence contract, warning of potential damage to the Atlantic alliance.
The Obama administrations six-month delay in approving new offshore drilling leases in federal waters will become a new three-year ban, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar quietly told reporters last Friday.
Two weeks after promising to check on the matter, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs still did not have an answer to the charge by former Navy admiral and Pennsylvania Senate candidate Rep. Joe Sestak that the Obama administration offered him a job in exchange for abandoning his primary challenge against Sen. Arlen Specter
The White House is hitting back against criticism from Cheief Justice Roberts, when he complained about the political scene surrounding the State of the Union speech when Obama criticized a Supreme Court decision on campaign financing. The White House press secretary, Gibbs, fired back: What is troubling is that this decision opened the floodgates for corporations and special interests to pour money into elections drowning out the voices of average Americans. The president has long been committed to reducing the undue influence of special interests and their lobbyists over government. That is why he spoke out to condemn the decision and is working with Congress on a legislative response to close this loophole.
Obama promised $2,500 health care savings. CBO says plan is a $2,300 price increase
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius confronted insurance executives at their annual conference Wednesday challenging them to divert millions in anti-reform advertising dollars toward cutting premiums and reciting a litany of insurance horror stories, to a decidedly chilly response.
Biden: Palistinians deserve "viable" state
VIDEO: Obama and Dick Durbin contradict each other
VIDEO: David Letterman's top ten..."Top Ten Reasons Rahm Emanuel is Nuts"
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) intends to purchase twenty-seven Remington Shotguns
Obama wants to take credit for and take over Palin's Alaskan pipeline- Senate Majority Leader Johnny Ellis, D-Anchorage, said a top Obama administration official, former Alaskan Pete Rouse, told Alaska legislators in Washington that Obama would be more than just verbally supporting the Alaska natural gas pipeline. "Mr. Rouse said the president was planning to elevate the Alaska gas line coordinator's office effort into the executive office of the president once Mr. [Larry] Persily is in place [as federal pipeline coordinator] and is official
"The List" for 3/9/2010
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. told law students Tuesday that he found it "very troubling" to be surrounded by loudly cheering critics at President Obama's State of the Union address,
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to stop assigning deadlines to Congress for finishing the health care reform bill.
Obama said Tuesday he'll bring in high-tech bounty hunters to help root out health care fraud, grabbing a populist idea with bipartisan backing in his final push to overhaul the system.
U.S. regulators may dedicate spectrum to free wireless Internet service for some Americans to increase affordable broadband service nationwide, the Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday. The FCC provided few details about how it would carry out such a plan and who would qualify, but will make a recommendation under the National Broadband Plan set for release next week. The agency will determine details later.
Harrison Schmitt's credentials as a space policy analyst include several days of walking on the moon. The Apollo 17 astronaut, who is also a former U.S. senator, is aghast at what President Obama is doing to the space program. "It's bad for the country," Schmitt said. "This administration really does not believe in American exceptionalism."
Kevin Jennings, the Obama administration's openly gay safe-schools czar who previously ran an organization focused on normalizing homosexuality in public schools, declined Monday to directly say whether the U.S. Department of Education should promote teaching school children that homosexual behavior is morally good.
Turkey, angry at the US, pledges support for Iran
Don't confuse the House timeline with the White House timeline, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) warned reporters Tuesday. ''None of us has mentioned the 18th, other than Mr. Gibbs,'' Hoyer said in response to a question about whether Congress can pass a health care package by March 18, the date laid out last week by White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. (Snip) In the meantime, Hoyer said an internal fight over abortion restrictions ''has to be resolved.'
The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation's oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.
A senior State Department official apologized Tuesday for a joking remark he made about Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi that prompted Libya to threaten diplomatic retaliation.
Obama is scrambling for political cover in the electoral battleground of Florida by staging a White House conference next month to explain and defend a scaled back vision for the nation's marquee manned space program that threatens thousands of jobs, political analysts say. Obama is banking that officially designating Mars the nation's next destination in space before a high-profile gathering of top administration officials, local elected officials and aerospace contractors will assuage an anxious, space-reliant work force and cement the allegiance of Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., a crucial political ally heading the Senate panel with jurisdiction over NASA and the highest ranking Democrat elected statewide in Florida.
Vice President Joe Biden is condemning Israel's approval of 1,600 new settlement homes in disputed East Jerusalem and says the timing undermines the peace process the United States is attempting to revive.
The US has said Israel's authorisation of new building in a Jewish settlement in the West Bank does not violate a recently announced
moratorium.
White House to host eco-friendly Easter Egg roll...using wooden eggs
US Vice President Joe Biden is Israel to reignite the peace process, but the Interior Ministry seems unmoved by the political statements made and on Tuesday approved the addition of 1,600 housing units in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, which is located beyond the Green Line. The Ministry's District Committee for Planning and Construction approved the plan be submitted for public comment.
Obama "Science Czar" John Holdren, has a history with the communist influenced journal, The Bulleten of Atomic Scientists
Israel approves 112 new settler homes as Joe Biden arrives
Obama, in his first press conference after his election, called Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons "unacceptable." He repetitively offered Iran "engagement." He set a deadline of year-end 2009 for Iranian compliance, now unilaterally extended another three months. Iran contemptuously and repetitively responded that it had no intention of abandoning its nuclear program. Obama's Iran policy is collapsing to the accompaniment of open mockery around the globe
VIDEO: Obama in 2005: "We need to rise above the ends justify the means mentality"
Mitchell told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that the understandings reached following the 2007Annapolis Conference are non-binding in the current round of negotiations
"The List" for 3/8/2010
VIDEO; 2008... Rahm Emanuel comes to inspect Eric Massa
Obama boasted Monday that Democrats' health care proposals would cut deficits by $1 trillion "over the next decade," a flub that inflated the actual estimate by $868 billion
ABC News: Neither [President Barack Obama or HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius] mentioned that the Senate health reform bill, which is the basis for Democrats' last best chance at comprehensive reform, would give the insurance companies millions of new customers required by law to buy health insurance. It would also require insurers to cover everyone, regardless of age, gender or pre-existing condition. To help pay for the new insurance requirements the government would give to people money to buy insurance - $336 billion over the next ten years. That money, ultimately, would have to go to... drum roll... insurance companies.
The US treasury department has eased sanctions on Iran, Cuba and Sudan to help further the use of web services and support opposition groups. US technology firms will now be allowed to export online services such as instant messaging and social networks. (Snip) The department has allowed the export of services to all three countries, and the export of communications software only to Iran and Sudan, as the export of software to Cuba is governed by the commerce department.
Obama goes to St. Louis to make health care speech, locks out the public
Stimulus funds went to pay for monkey research in North Carolina
Obama, launching a last-ditch push to pass health care legislation in the next 10 days, left no doubt Monday that he was ready to roll over any opposition by taunting Republicans that they had 10 years to fix health care and didn't...
The March 18th House healthcare vote is the final vote for passage.
AUDIO: "Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn, Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) said. "He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive."
Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) suggested on a New York radio station Sunday that he could rescind his resignation scheduled to take effect at 5 p.m. Monday after asserting that an ethics investigation into allegations that he sexually harassed one of his aides may have been orchestrated by Democratic leaders to get him out of office before the health care vote.
Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) says the House ethics committee is investigating him for inappropriate comments he made to a male staffer on New Year's Eve and that he's the victim of a power play by Democratic leaders who want him out of Congress because he's a "no" vote on health care reform. "Mine is now the deciding vote on the health care bill," Massa, who on Friday announced his intention to resign, said during a long monologue on radio station WKPQ. "And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they've gotten rid of me, and it will pass. You connect the dots."
This week, the Obama administration announced it will create a new poverty-measurement system that will eventually displace the current poverty measure .Under the new measure, a family will be judged poor if its income falls below a certain specified income threshold....unlike the current poverty standards, the new income thresholds will have a built-in escalator clause: They will rise automatically in direct proportion to any rise in the living standards of the average American.
The current poverty measure counts absolute purchasing power how much steak and potatoes you can buy. The new measure will count comparative purchasing power how much steak and potatoes you can buy relative to other people. As the nation becomes wealthier, the poverty standards will increase in proportion. In other words, Obama will employ a statistical trick to ensure that the poor will always be with you, no matter how much better off they get in absolute terms
2003 VIDEO: Obama shows support for partial birth abortions
With the fate of his signature legislative initiative far from certain, President Barack Obama is taking his last-ditch push for a health care overhaul on the road. In a speech Monday in Philadelphia, Obama will try to persuade the public to back his plan to remake the nation's health care system, while also urging uneasy lawmakers to cast a "final vote" for the massive legislation in an election year.
"The List" for 3/7/2010
Restrictions on oil and gas drilling will cost the U.S. economy $2.36 trillion through 2029, according to a study requested by state utility regulators and paid for in part by industry-sponsored groups.
Obama in August of 2008, Endorsing space exploration
TheOrlando Sentinel is reporting that President Obama's next issues summit will be about his new space policy. It will take place on April 15th, likely at the Kennedy Space Center. Other details, such as invitees, are yet to be determined. Obama, during the campaign, visited the Kennedy Space Center area where he promised to fully support the return to the Moon effort that he now proposes to cancel.
Obama administration is seizing on a new analysis by Goldman Sachs , the New York investment bank, recommending that investors buy shares in two big insurance companies, the UnitedHealthGroup and Cigna, because insurance rates are up sharply and competition is down. White House officials on Saturday said that the Goldman Sachs analysis would be a centerpiece of their closing argument in the push for major health care legislation.
"The List" for 3/6/2010
Secret Report: White House cozying up to Palistinian demands. The U.S. administration will not put a lot of effort into the upcoming indirect negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, opting instead to focus on the November Congressional elections, according to an internal Foreign Ministry report that was distributed to Israeli diplomatic missions abroad. The classified report claims that in the preparatory discussions for the Israeli-Palestinian proximity talks the Obama administration adopted positions that are closer to Palestinian demands.
Despite campaign promises to support a resolution using the term " genocide" to define the World War I-era killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks, the Barack Obama administration has recently expressed its strong opposition to the approval of such a resolution
VIDEO: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said the Obama administration will seek to block a controversial bill describing as genocide the World War I killing of Armenians by Turks.
Obama's $90bn bank levy will largely be paid for by customers and investors and not the institutions themselves, the US's leading spending watchdog has found.
36 states aim to preempt federal health care legislation.some states are already taking measures to keep federal hands off their citizens. States are enacting law exempting its residents from any health insurance mandates.
Obama's proposed budget would add more than $9.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade, congressional budget analysts said Friday.
The White House on Friday announced a "summit on entrepreneurship" to build economic ties with the Islamic world, part of President Obama's outreach to Muslims.
Five months after the US Congress approved the cancellation of the Lockheed Martin F-22, the air force is still deciding whether to preserve or scrap the production tooling. The options under discussion include preserving at least the core of Lockheed's ability to build F-22 components and systems, although restarting production is not the USAF leadership's intent, says acquisition chief Lt Gen Mark Shackelford
The White House is considering an end to its effort to prosecute the Sept. 11 plotters in a civilian court and send them instead before military commissions in a major retreat from President Obama pledge to overhaul the Bush administration's detention policies.
Obama's decision to appoint his close political ally, union leader Andrew Stern, to the newly created National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform has set off a firestorm of criticism from business and conservative groups who charge he is a political radical who should be investigated for failure to register as a lobbyist
Obama met privately with his staff this week to devise a measure that will grant United States citizenship to the country's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants.
The Environmental Protection Agency, which is threatening to regulate carbon emissions if Congress won't, is facing legal heat from states that say new regulations will kill jobs at the worst possible time. Texas, Alabama and Virginia, all led by Republican governors, have filed petitions since December, when the EPA ruled that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide endanger human health, clearing the path for the agency to issue mandatory regulations to reduce them.
Obama attacked the country's biggest health insurers on Saturday for failing to give him a "straight answer" on why they were "arbitrarily and massively" hiking their premiums. Obama's renewed criticism of insurers comes as he tries to rally support among Americans and lawmakers within his own Party for a final push to pass a bill reforming the troubled $2.5 trillion healthcare industry.
Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, outlined a new U.S. approach to war in a series of speeches this week that replaces overwhelming firepower with more restrained use of force to safeguard civilian lives.
"The List" for 3/5/2010
Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) said Thursday that he does not know if President Barack Obama is either a citizen or a Christian.
President Obama's budget will lead to deficits averaging nearly $1 trillion over the next decade, the CBO estimated Friday.
The federal deficit would hit $1.5 trillion in 2010 under President Barack Obama's proposals, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected Friday.
The Obama expansion of the home-buyer tax credit puts the taxpayer on the hook for $100 k per home sold
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are pressing banks to buy back huge swaths of home loans as a way for the mortgage finance giants to recoup some of their massive losses that the taxpayer has to cover.
President Obama speaks about clean energy jobs at OPOWER, ....says the loss of 36,000 jobs is "actually better than expected
Obama's advisers are nearing a recommendation that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, be prosecuted in a military tribunal, administration officials said, a step that would reverse Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s plan to try him in civilian court in New York City.
House Democrats walk away from the Obama March 18 deadline for Obamacare. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said the Democrats would like to get a final vote by Congress Easter break, which begins March 29. But he also said the world doesnt fall apart if that timeline isnt met
Obama has signed a bill creating a program to promote the U.S. as a premier tourism destination for international travelers. Government and private industry would evenly split the program's costs, with Washington contributing up to $100 million a year. That money will come from a $10 fee paid by foreigners who do not pay for visas to enter the U.S.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fifty; list; ninth; obama
Where does the time go? The administration provides an never ending source of entertainment. Kind of like watching an tsunami... as it rolls towards you.
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posted on
03/11/2010 8:22:54 PM PST
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Nachum
To: Nachum
could someone please read #6.
‘the Senate Parlimentarian’
and explain what it means.
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03/11/2010 9:10:26 PM PST
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element92
To: element92
March 11, 2010, 2:30 P.M.
By David M. Drucker
Roll Call Staff
The Senate Parliamentarian has ruled that President Barack Obama must sign Congress original health care reform bill before the Senate can act on a companion reconciliation package, senior GOP sources said Thursday.
The Senate Parliamentarians Office was responding to questions posed by the Republican leadership. The answers were provided verbally, sources said.
House Democratic leaders have been searching for a way to ensure that any move they make to approve the Senate-passed $871 billion health care reform bill is followed by Senate action on a reconciliation package of adjustments to the original bill. One idea is to have the House and Senate act on reconciliation prior to House action on the Senates original health care bill.
Information Republicans say they have received from the Senate Parliamentarians Office eliminates that option. House Democratic leaders last week began looking at crafting a legislative rule that would allow the House to approve the Senate health care bill, but not forward it to Obama for his signature until the Senate clears the reconciliation package.
Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) moved Thursday to put Senate Republicans on the defensive over health care, sending a letter to Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in which he dared the GOP to vote against reform.
Reid also defended the Democrats use of reconciliation to get a final health care reform bill to the presidents desk, noting that the bulk of health care reform was approved under regular order via the package that cleared the Senate on Christmas Eve. Reid also emphasized that Republicans have used the procedure several times over the years.
However, Reid also promised in the letter that Republicans would have ample opportunity to amend the reconciliation package.
Reconciliation is designed to deal with budget-related matters, and some have expressed doubt that it could be used for comprehensive health care reform that includes many policies with no budget implications. But the reconciliation bill now under consideration would not be the vehicle for comprehensive reform that bill already passed outside of reconciliation with 60 votes, Reid wrote to McConnell.
Reconciliation will not exclude Republicans from the legislative process. You will continue to have an opportunity to offer amendments and change the shape of the legislation. In addition, at the end of the process, the bill can pass only if it wins a democratic, up-or-down majority vote. If Republicans want to vote against a bill that reduces health care costs, fills the prescription drug donut hole for seniors and reduces the deficit, you will have every right to do so, he said.
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03/11/2010 9:43:41 PM PST
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Nachum
(The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
To: element92
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03/11/2010 9:44:31 PM PST
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Nachum
(The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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