Thursday, November 12, 2009

The CHAIRMAN OBAMA CHRONICLES...A Snippet of Regime Accomplishments...Oct. 20 - Oct. 31, 2009...

  1. Obama Administration Involved in Bank of America Scandal! 10/20/9 The Washington Independent: “Bush administration officials have been under fire for effectively forcing a merger last December between Bank of America and Merrill Lynch without informing BoA shareholders of the financial dire straights Merrill was in at the time. But yesterday the Obama administration was pulled more deeply into the scandal as well, after newly unveiled BoA documents suggested that both incoming Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and incoming senior economic adviser Larry Summers had endorsed the merger as well. From The Washington Post: Bank of America chief executive Kenneth D. Lewis told the company’s board that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told him “that Geithner and, in addition, Larry Summers, were both on board with the transaction,” according to Dec. 22 talking points prepared for a conference call. Both the White House and the Treasury Department have denied that Geithner and Summers were influential in pushing the merger, even if they knew about it, the Post reported. But their involvement at any level might explain why the Obama administration’s Securities Exchange Commission was so light in penalizing BoA for a failure to tell its shareholders about $3.6 billion in bonuses Merrill was poised to pay its employees around the time of the merger. The $33 million SEC fine — which effectively charged company shareholders for the alleged crimes of company executives — was thrown out by a federal judge last month.”
  2. Obama’s Own Defense Secretary says the President Needs to Make up His Mind! 10/20/9 The time to make a decision on Afghan troop levels has come and can’t wait for Afghan elections to be straightened out. The President sent Rahm Emanuel and John Kerry out last weekend to say he would not make a decision (it would be “foolish”) on troop levels until after the Afghan elections. That trial balloon apparently crashed. Defense Secretary Robert Gates now says the administration can’t “sit on our hands” and do nothing and should not wait for the election to decide on troop levels.
  3. Senator: Obama Administration uses Taxpayer Funded Website to Push Socialist ObamaCare Nightmare!! 10/21/9 National Review Online: “Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is raising concerns that a Department of Health and Human Services Web site that urges visitors to send an e-mail to President Barack Obama praising his health care reform plan may violate rules against government-funded propaganda. The Web page is accessed through a “state your support” button featured prominently on the HHS Web site and carries a disclaimer that the Web site is maintained by HHS. In a letter sent to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Tuesday, Grassley warned that “any possible misuse of appropriated funds by the executive branch to engage in publicity or propaganda in support of an Administration priority is a matter that must be investigated and taken seriously,” noting that in 2005 Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) argued that “the use of official funds for similar activities were ‘underhanded tactics’ and that these tactics ‘are not worthy of our great democracy.’”
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  5. Senator: Obama Administration Using Nixon-style Enemies list! 10/21/9 U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander “accused the Obama White House on Wednesday of using Nixon-style tactics to vilify political opponents and members of the media, suggesting the administration is on the brink of compiling its own “enemies list.”…(Alexander) urged President Obama and his aides to dial back their attacks on White House critics…joined by Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., cited a litany of instances where he said Obama was inappropriately targeting groups — from the Chamber of Commerce to Fox News — just as President Nixon did four decades ago. “I have an uneasy feeling only 10 months into this new administration that we’re beginning to see the symptoms of this same kind of animus developing in the Obama administration,” Alexander said. Gregg also expressed concerns and suggested Obama was “Nixifying” the White House. Alexander, chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, pointed to the administration’s public criticism of the health insurance industry, Republicans in Congress, the Chamber of Commerce and Fox News.
  6. Obama’s Empty ObamaCare Promise! - Turns out 73-Million May Not Be Covered! 10/21/9 Google News and the Associated Press: “Despite promises by President Barack Obama, more than 70 million Americans who have
    Democrat Rockefeller

    Democrat Rockefeller

    health insurance through their jobs could be open to higher costs or denials of some coverage under a leading overhaul plan making its way through Congress. That’s because 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…”I want to make very clear that we cannot promise the American people that the insurance reforms they have been hearing so much about will benefit everyone, when the reality is that this bill leaves out” up to 55 percent, or 73 million people covered by such arrangements, said Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W. Va.”
  7. Obama’s Administration, brought to you by Goldman Sachs 10/21/9 American Banking News is asking why so many Goldman Sachs people are high up in Team Obama. “…Yet another executive from Goldman Sachs was installed in a major financial regulatory position of the Obama administration raised even more red flags on the growing and apparently disturbing relationship directly between the administration and Goldman Sachs. Adam Storch, vice president in Goldman Sachs’ Business Intelligence Group, is the latest to be added to the Obama financial team, picked to be the COO of the enforcement division of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), a new position at the SEC…Other high level financial positions held in the Obama administration by former Goldman Sachs executives are Neel Kashkari, heading the TARP bailout; Mark Patterson, Chief of Staff for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Gary Gensler, top executive at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and finally Goldman has its top lobbyist, Michael Paese, (as) Rep. Barney Frank’s top aide, (Frank)…is the chair of the House Financial Services Committee…The conflicts of interest here are so obvious that it must be concluded the administration thinks it can get away with doing whatever they want, as well as the executives of Goldman Sachs which now has a spiderweb of entangling alliances with the upper echelons of the government. I can’t see that in any way being a good thing.” - Bloomberg.com reports on other Goldman Sachs execs working for Obama and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. “The advisers include Gene Sperling, who last year took in $887,727 from Goldman Sachs and $158,000 for speeches mostly to financial companies, including the firm run by accused Ponzi scheme mastermind R. Allen Stanford…Even Geithner’s chief of staff Patterson, who was a full-time lobbyist at the firm, did not make as much as Sperling did on a part-time basis. Patterson reported earning $637,492 from Goldman Sachs last year…The Wall Street ties are troubling to some advocates for investors. “Where is the transparency this administration promised?” asked Lynn Turner, a former chief accountant at the SEC. “You just wonder, who is representing middle Americans?” UPDATE 10/22/9: Allison Kilkenny at True/Slant reports, “Responding to the furor over executive pay at companies bailed out with taxpayer money, the Obama administration will order the firms that received the most aid to slash compensation to their highest-paid employees…[The plan] would have no direct impact on firms that did not receive government bailouts or that have already repaid loans they received from Washington…One of those firms that has repaid their loans is Goldman Sachs, the group of suit-wearing pirates who received $12.9 billion of taxpayer money courtesy of former Goldman Sachs CEO and former Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, during the AIG bailout. During the bailouts, the firm had access to enormous amounts of cheap money from the government because they converted to a bank holding company, which made them eligible for $28 billion in federally backed loans, so their cost of capital was/is very low. Additionally, Goldman made private equity investments in nonfinancial firms like its deal with Geely Automotive Holdings in China. Goldman took their cheap money and lent it back to the economy at higher rates, making a profit on the spread. The sweetest part of the deal was that the firm’s main competitors, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, no longer exist so Goldman completely dominates the market. Cheap Money Courtesy Of Taxpayers + Foreign Investments + No Competition = Cha-Ching! It’s no wonder Goldman was able to pay back its loans so quickly, while making a very handsome profit in the process. This was all done under the pageant of “What Is Good For Goldman Is Good For America,” but that of course isn’t true. All Goldman did was take the money and turn it into bonuses.”
  8. White House Lie: Claims President Obama Didn’t Know Pay Czar Would be Cutting Pay! 10/22/9 - As we told you in Scandal # 735, pay Czar Kenneth Feinberg plans to slash pay at 7 huge firms that took government bailouts…by as much as 90%! Now, the White House Claims Obama had no idea! “One official told Fox News that Feinberg from the start had the independent authority to work with companies and make such a call. Obama was never required to sign off before final decisions were made.” Obama hired this man to slash corporate exec salaries. There’s no way he can claim now that he did not know this was going to happen! Slashing executive pay at companies that took taxpayer funded bailouts seems to make us feel good, however we have to remember that we are in new uncharted territory here. Government dictating pay does not happen in a capitalist society. It does not happen in free market capitalism. It is not permitted in the United States Constitution! No where does it give the President the authority to have czars or to limit the pay businesses offer. This kind of thing only happens with fascist dictators and socialist or marxist governments. This is what happens when the media fails to properly vett a Presidential candidate. This is what happens when Conservative American voices are not heard or believed. The majority of voting Americans chose Barack Hussein Obama (mmmm, mmmm, mmmm) as the nation’s first socialist president. His plans, his actions, his unconstitutional abuses of power must be stopped.
  9. Obama’s Fox News Gaffe - Gives Even More Bad Examples! 10/22/9 President Obama told an NBC News reporter that “The American people are a lot more interested in what we’re doing to create jobs, or how we’re handling the situation in Afghanistan.” Ha! What he’s doing to “create jobs??!!” 49 of 50 states have lost jobs since his Obama Stimulus Plan. So what is he doing to create jobs? Nothing! How he’s “handling” the situation in Afghanistan??!! You mean by ignoring it? Two months now since his general requested 40,000 more troops and still no answer. So what is he doing to handle Afghanistan? Nothing! Pretty bad examples there, Mr. President.
  10. Chicago Style Rahm Emanuel Lies about Bush-Cheney and Afghanistan 10/22/9 Former Vice President Dick Cheney has pointed out a lie he says was told by White House Chief of Street Gang Staff, Rahm Emanuel. Fox News reports, “Cheney said the Bush administration handed Obama’s transition team a policy review of the Afghan war conducted last fall to meet the new challenges posed by the Taliban. “They asked us not to announce our findings publicly, and we agreed, giving them the benefit of our work and the benefit of the doubt,” Cheney said. Cheney’s comments countered a recent claim by White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel that the Obama administration had to form an Afghan war strategy from scratch because the Bush administration hadn’t asked any key questions about the war and left it “adrift.”
  11. Obama Appointment Scandal # 81 - Craig Becker 10/22/9 Rino Johny MaverDick McCain placed a hold on Obama’s pick for the National Labor Relations Board, Craig Becker. Fox News reports McCain is “saying Craig Becker’s controversial writings and legal advocacy work have outraged critics who say he supports unions at the expense of employer free speech and American businesses…the NLRB (is) a five-member independent government agency that supervises union organization campaigns and investigates and remedies unfair labor practices…Becker, who currently serves as associate general counsel to the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), a labor union representing about 1.8 million workers, was approved by a 15-8 vote Wednesday in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. But McCain and a slew of business groups are raising questions over articles and academic journals written by Becker on the very labor law he would work to interpret if confirmed to the board. Critics say Becker’s writings reflect views that support restricting employers’ free speech rights and limiting the ability of employers to converse with their employees during union representation campaigns. “Mr. Becker is on the record supporting suppression of employer free speech,” McCain spokeswoman Brook Buchanan said.” - ConservativeAmerican.org’s take: Yet another Obama pal from the democrat party’s SEIU! The fact Obama continues to make controversial appointments even after scandals involving Van Jones and numerous other appointments shows he simply doesn’t care. He wants his radical extremist friends in positions of power.
  12. Obama on Darfur: Dictators and Double Standards 10/22/9 The Wall Street Journal: “I am deeply concerned by reports that the Bush Administration is negotiating a normalization of relations with the Government of Sudan. . . . This reckless and cynical initiative would reward a regime in Khartoum that has a record of failing to live up to its commitments.” —Senator Barack Obama, April 2008. We found this not-so-ancient statement on the Obama campaign’s Web site, under a picture of the candidate and the quote, “I’m asking you to believe.” On Monday, the Obama Administration took its own first step toward normalizing relations with Khartoum, promising a “menu of incentives and disincentives” for a government the U.S. has repeatedly accused of genocide…In other words, even if Sudan continues to behave badly it will not incur penalties—such as a NATO-enforced no-fly zone—that could actually force it to change its ways. At worst, Sudan might be forced to live with a somewhat longer list of U.S. or international sanctions, none of which have had the slightest effect on its policies toward Darfur…The larger wonder is how all of this can go down so smoothly with those in the human-rights community who have championed Darfur and assailed the Bush Administration for not doing enough. Instead, they are congratulating Mr. Obama, in part because he didn’t take the even softer line on Sudan being advocated by U.S. special envoy J. Scott Gration. Perhaps the Darfur activists should ask why Khartoum instantly praised the new policy for representing the “new Obama spirit.” It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that for many activists and columnists, as for Senator Obama, Darfur was less a moral cause than a partisan club. Anyone can put a “Save Darfur” sticker on his bumper. For the sake of the people of Darfur, we hope that’s not all they’re going to get from President Obama.” –ConservativeAmerican.org also notes that Obama’s U.N. Ambassador, the cussing and spitting Susan Rice, wants the U.S. to take military action in the Sudan, not to sit down and chat with them like Team Obama is doing! We are the only ones reporting this. As we reported exclusively way back on December 1st of 2008, Susan Rice not only doesn’t want us to talk to the Sudanese, She wants us to bomb them!
  13. Obama Administration Lies About Being
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    Napolitano

    Ready for Swine Flu Outbreak
    10/23/9 Back in April, the Obama Administration said it was already prepared to handle the expected swine flu outbreak. From the scandal dated April 27th, “While President Obama was out golfing…Homeland Security Chieftess Janet Napolitano said the USA is ready to handle the Swine Flu outbreak. The news conference went to her by default because the President (had) yet to appoint a reasonable person to serve as Health & Human Services Secretary. Three months in to his term, 19 key positions remain(ed) open at HHS as the nation prepare(d) for what some fear could be a pandemic.” USA was ready? Team Obama was ready? Why the shortage of regular flu shots and the H1N1 vaccinations then? Apparently, they weren’t ready after all.
  14. Obama Loses His Childish Game with Fox News 10/23/9 - With two wars to fight, an economy that continues to get worse and a national swine flu outbreak, President Obama continues his childish war game against Fox News. “Fox Executive Refutes Reports That ‘Pay Czar’ Interview Never Was Requested! The Treasury Department on Thursday tried to make “pay czar” Kenneth Feinberg available for interviews to every member of the network pool except Fox News before relenting under pressure.”
  15. Teleprompter-in-Chief Strikes Again - Obama at MIT 10/23/9 The president had some major verbal stumbling when his teleprompter failed to cooperate…
  16. Obama Appointment Scandal # 82 - Bob Bauer 10/23/9 Fox News: “White House Communications Director Anita Dunn’s husband is emerging as the top candidate to replace Greg Craig as White House counsel, Fox News has learned. Dunn’s husband, Bob Bauer, is President Obama’s personal lawyer and a former counsel to his campaign, as well as the top lawyer for the Democratic National Committee. Senior White House officials declined to comment, but Democrats close to the situation said Bauer is under serious consideration to replace Craig, who is expected to leave the White House by the end of the year.” — Dunn is the Anti-Fox News Czar. Her husband, Bauer, once claimed that John McCain was part of an elaborate conspiracy with the Bush White House, the Justice Department and the RNC to make up cases of voter fraud in order to convince democrats not to vote! He wanted a special prosecutor to look into “phony” accusations of democrat voter fraud? Phony? Yeah right. And like a scandal like this would make democrats stay home. Give us a break.
  17. White House Lawyer Claims Administration Has Only Granted Three Lobbyist Waivers 10/25/9 White House Lawyer for Ethics, Norman Eisen, told the American Bar Association only three waivers have been granted for lobbyists so far. He missed a few! Lobbyists so far include Bill Lynn, William Corr, Mark Patterson, Jocelyn Frye, Cecilia Munoz, Naomi Walker and Patrick Gaspard. Our report also indicates, “Assistant Secretary of State Richard Verma was a lobbyist (but) team Obama decided he didn’t need a waiver because…well, because they decided he didn’t need one!”
  18. White House Lawyer Says Obama Administration is off to a “Scandal-Free” Start!!! 10/25/9 Obama Administration Attorney Norman Eisen srikes again, “We think it is no accident that we have had one of the most scandal-free starts of any administration in modern history.” Now that’s just about the funnniest and most outrageous comment to come from this Administration yet!!
  19. White House Lawyer Claims “Full Transparency” on Stimulus Lobbyists! 10/25/9 Obama Administration Attorney Norman Eisen completes is set of three misrepresentations with this, “the administration mandated disclosure of lobbying or competitive grants for stimulus dollars to keep the process transparent and opened up the White House visitor logs to the public. “We did full transparency,” he said. “We’ll let the public decide who among them is a lobbyist or not.” Oh Really? From the Official Obama Administration Scandals List # 617, The Beachwood Reporter and the Washington Post: “President Obama ordered federal officials to disclose their contacts with lobbyists trying to influence how the government doles out money to jump-start the economy. Yet few such communications have been reported even though lobbyists say they are busier than ever with the multibillion-dollar stimulus.”
  20. Obama Administration Pressures top CEO’s to help Battle the Chamber of Commerce! 10/25/9 Fox Business Network: “As the Obama Administration and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce continue battling over policy issues, White House adviser Valerie Jarrett and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner met with five chief executive officers of top companies — four of them Chamber members — at a private dinner Wednesday, Administration officials said…The business source said Jarrett asked executives to pressure the Chamber to moderate its opposition to creating a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency. The Chamber has opposed the administration’s proposal to create the agency, which would regulate sales and marketing practices of credit cards, mortgages and consumer loans…Jarrett and Geithner met with Frank Blake, Chairman and CEO of Home Depot; Rob Henrikson, Chairman and CEO of insurer MetLife; Christopher Nassetta, President and CEO of Hilton Hotels; Jim Murren, Chairman and CEO of casino operator and real estate developer MGM Mirage, and Jonathan Tisch, Chairman and CEO of Loews, which operates hotel, insurance and energy interests.”
  21. Obama Administration Battling Unions over Taxing Good Health Plans! 10/26/9 ABC’s Teddy Davis reports: “The Senate Finance Committee bill includes a tax on high-priced insurance plans, suggested by Senator Kerry. A policy along these lines, designed carefully, will encourage both employers and employees to be more watchful health care consumers,” said Christina Romer, the chair of the Council of Economic Advisors…”It will discourage insurance companies from offering high-priced plans that would otherwise eat up larger and larger shares of workers’ wages,” she continued…Romer’s full-throated endorsement of the “Cadillac tax” keeps the Obama administration at odds on this issue with some of its closest allies. Organized labor has made killing the “Cadillac tax” a top priority and more than half of House Democrats have signed a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi urging her not to include a “Cadillac tax” in health-care legislation.The union-funded Health Care for America Now group recently launched a television ad attacking the “Cadillac tax” as the wrong way to pay for health-care reform.” — So if you have a great health plan, Team Obama wants to tax the heck out of it to pay for the socialist ObamaCare Nightmare!
  22. Obama Appointment Scandal # 83 - Islam Siddiqui - ANOTHER LOBBYIST! 10/26/9 From AirAmerica.com (no, we’re not kidding…it’s from them!), “The Obama Administration has just announced the nomination of Islam Siddiqui, a pesticide industry lobbyist, to the position of Chief Agricultural Negotiator, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Green activists say that the appointment places the president’s commitment to progressive environmental policy in serious question. Islam Siddiqui is no stranger to Washington. From 1997 to 2001 he served in various positions in the Clinton Administration at the US Department of Agriculture. However, the uproar over his appointment comes from his current position as Vice President for Science and Regulatory Affairs at CropLife America, a trade association representing producers and distributors of pesticides. From 2001 to 2003 he was also a registered lobbyist for CropLife.”
  23. Obama Appointment Scandal # 84 - Erroll Southers 10/26/9 Conservative American Jim DeMint is asking if President Obama’s nominee for the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) will try to unionize security screeners. ““The safety and security of the American people are far too important to be controlled by union bosses,” said Senator DeMint. “It’s time for Mr. Southers to give an unequivocal answer: Will he give union bosses control over the safety of Americans at our airports, yes or no?” DeMint says unionizing these workers would be a Homeland Security Disaster. ConservativeAmerican.org agrees. Unions seem to love him and DeMint is correct to be concerned. Southers has been endorsed by the National Treasury Employees Union and the American Federation of Goverenment Employees Union. UPDATE 11/11/9: The Washington Post reports, “Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) questioned President Obama’s nominee to lead the nation’s airport security agency Tuesday about a censure he received from the FBI in 1988. Erroll Southers, who was serving as an FBI special agent at the time of the censure, asked a co-worker’s husband who worked for the San Diego Police Department to run a background check on his ex-wife’s boyfriend. Under questioning by Collins, Southers said that he has not misused government databases to receive personal information on anyone since the incident and that he would not do so in the future.” Sean Hannity on Fox News commented, “Oh, that’s reassuring!”
  24. Obama Hasn’t “Learned He Shouldn’t Golf While Soldiers Die!” 10/27/9 War time is Tee Time for Obama! President B-Rock Obama has been on the golf course 24 times, mostly on Sundays, since taking office. He’s only been to Church a few times and didn’t attend a single service his first 11 weeks in office. We’re patiently waiting for Michael Moore-on to blast Obama for this as he blasted George W. Bush. Michael Moore-on still has a youtube video up entitled “George Learns He Shouldn’t Golf While Soldiers Die.” Seems odd considering Bush only golfed a handful of times and Obama is out nearly every weekend. Odd, he still hasn’t had time to make up his mind on troop levels! As death tolls rise in Afghanistan, when will Obama realize the bad message this sends out?! Or will the left and the media just keep giving him a free pass?
  25. Obama Appointment Scandal # 85 - Edward Chen 10/27/9 -
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    Judge Chen

    Warner Todd Huston reports at Stop the ACLU: “One of those nominees, San Francisco U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward Chen, received a favorable vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington today. So what sort of judge is Edward Chen?…As an ACLU lawyer, Chen was known for opposing English-only policies and for pushing discriminatory affirmative action ideals. He even came to the aid of gang members in one case. Chen was quite the ACLU activist between 1979 and 2001…Chen wondered aloud if American patriotism was justified. Chen told the crowd of his, “feelings of ambivalence and cynicism when confronted with appeals to patriotism — sometimes I cannot help but feel that there are too much [sic] injustice and too many inequalities that prevent far too many Americans from enjoying the beauty extolled in that anthem.” Apparently, Chen feels that America is too racist to justify anyone feeling patriotism for her…Only ten days after 9/11 occurred, Chen remarked that he imagined that America would revert to the “irresistible forces of racism, nativism and scapegoating” of the past and begin systematic oppression of American Muslims. Later he likened America’s post 9/11 military and security policies to the climate that led up to Japanese internment during WWII…In a speech given at the Operation Protect and Defend dinner on May 4, 2006, Judge Chen referred to “secret surveillance of Americans without a judicial warrant, secret no fly lists, [and] secret detention of nearly a thousand American residents held without charges.” Naturally, he offered no proof of this wholesale but secret detention of Americans…Judge Chen will bring “diversity” to the bench as President Obama wants certainly. But will he also bring divisiveness and a desire to get even with all the racism he sees where ever he looks?” Bill O’Reilly featured him on The Factor tonight too.
  26. Top Secret Health Care Meetings in “Most Open & Transparent Government?” 10/27/9 The Politico: “When Barack Obama was running for president, he vowed to lead the most open and transparent government in history. Candidate Obama even promised to negotiate health care reform live on television.Then it came time to govern, and President Obama has negotiated major parts of the health care bill behind closed doors. Earlier this year, he announced deals his administration had cut with drug companies and hospitals after brokering them out of public view. And now his top lieutenants are working in secret with leading Democrats to craft the health care bill that will be debated on the Senate floor. All of the insider wheeling and dealing has good-government groups disappointed in an administration that promised more openness than it has delivered. Bill Allison of the Sunlight Foundation expressed the watchdog community’s frustration when he said, bluntly, “This is a broken promise. We didn’t get anywhere near the level of transparency that we were promised.”
  27. Obama Appointment Scandal # 86 - Stephanie Villafuerte 10/28/9 Michelle Malkin is on top of this story, “…the festering corruption scandal involving President Obama’s US Attorney nominee in Colorado, Stephanie Villafuerte…Villafuerte is entangled in the railroading of Denver ICE agent Cory Voorhis — whom federal prosecutors tried to punish after he blew the whistle on sweetheart deals for criminal illegal aliens during the 2006 gubernatorial campaign. A jury acquitted Voorhis of all federal
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    Villafuerte

    charges. He’s trying to get his job back. At least one of his supervisors has admitted lying. Villafuerte served on Democrat gubernatorial candidate Bill Ritter’s campaign team while on leave from the Denver D.A.’s office and from all local news accounts was deeply involved in the witchhunt against agent Voorhis. But she refuses to answer any questions about her role in the case. And now she is poised to take over as US Attorney. Transparency? Ethics? Accountability? Anyone? From the Denver Post, unresolved contradictions and double standards: (Villafuerte)…told the FBI two years ago that she never spoke to anyone in the Denver District Attorney’s Office about an illegal immigrant who became a controversial figure in the 2006 gubernatorial race…, Carlos Estrada-Medina. But the FBI apparently never asked Villafuerte, the former chief deputy DA who was then working for Bill Ritter’s campaign, why she left a phone message for DA spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough that Kimbrough noted was about Estrada-Medina. The FBI also apparently never asked her about the nature of a series of phone calls she exchanged over the next two days with Kimbrough and First Assistant DA Chuck Lepley. Those calls came both before and after an order by Lepley to a subordinate to run a criminal history check of Estrada-Medina in a restricted federal database. It can be a crime to access the National Crime Information Center computer for a non-law-enforcement purpose.”
  28. Obama Administration Overstates Job Creation Numbers! 10/29/9 “Overstates” is a nice word for lie. Fox News reported: The White House is promising that new figures being released Friday will be a more accurate showing of progress in President Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan. It aggressively defended an earlier, faulty count that overstated by thousands the jobs created or saved so far.Ed DeSeve, serving as Obama’s stimulus overseer, said the administration has been working for weeks to correct mistakes in early counts that identified more than 30,000 jobs paid for with stimulus money. He said a new stimulus report Friday should correct many mistakes an Associated Press review found that showed the earlier report overstated thousands of stimulus jobs.”I think you’ll see a pretty good degree of accuracy,” DeSeve said in an interview.White House spokesman Robert Gibbs downplayed errors in job counts identified by the AP’s review, telling reporters, “We’re talking about 4,000, or a 5,000 error.” ConservativeAmerican.org notes it remains a scandal how much your federal government is spending for each job created, it is hundreds of thousands of dollars for each job!
  29. Obama spent an outrageous $24,000 per vehicle for Cash for Clunkers!! 10/29/9 After forcing car dealers to destroy perfectly good used cars (making it harder for the poor to find affordable vehicles), we learn the Obama Cash for Clunkers program cost $24,000 per vehicle! That’s more than the cost of many vehicles! Edmunds.com reported the $24,000 figure. “Edmunds.com…found that of the nearly 690,000 vehicles sold under the program, only 125,000 of the sales could be credited directly to the Cash-for-Clunkers program.The rest of the sales would have happened anyway, despite the government program, the report said — raising questions over its effectiveness.The report also said that the average cost for a vehicle in August 2009 was only $26,915 — minus an average cash rebate of $1,667…The program was touted for giving a boost to auto sales while increasing the sales of more fuel-efficient vehicles.”
  30. Obama’s Small Business Stimulus Lie 10/29/9 - AllBusiness.com reports, “We received a press release today from the always-fervent Lloyd Chapman, president of the American Small Business League and tireless champion of the little guy. In it, Chapman accuses Pres. Obama of…well, lying, basically. And he has a point. Obama’s much-ballyhooed small-business initiatives have amounted to almost nothing. Since the recession started, the feds have spent $2.8 trillion on economic stimulus. Of this, $17.3 billion has gone to small business. That comes to 0.6 percent. Put it another way: AIG got $180 billion in bailout money, while the 27 million small businesses in the U.S. have received $17.3 billion.”
  31. Obama Administration says Privacy Act and Freedom of Information Act do not apply to the White House! 10/30/9 - Judicial Watch reports, “the Obama administration argued in a recent court filing that the Privacy Act does not apply to the Executive Office of the President! This court filing came in a Judicial Watch lawsuit filed in 1996 against the Clinton White House related to a scandal known as “Filegate,” where the Clinton White House obtained and maintained the private FBI files of hundreds of former Reagan and Bush officials…he Obama Justice Department stated the following: “The White House is not an agency under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and it necessarily follows that it is not an agency subject to the Privacy Act.” However, the Privacy Act specifically lists the “Executive Office of the President” as an agency subject to the Act’s provisions…Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “It is disturbing that the Obama administration has taken the legal position that the Privacy Act does not apply to the White House and the Clinton FBI files scandal was not a scandal. It is worrying to those of us concerned about the Obama White House’s collecting “fishy” emails and compiling an enemies list of new organizations, radio hosts, businesses, and industry associations to attack and smear. Is the Obama defense of the FBI files scandal less about that Clinton scandal and more about what his White House is up to now?
  32. Obama Rewards Donors with White House Perks after saying he wouldn’t do that 10/30/9 I have mixed feelings on this one. I have no problem whatsoever with a politician giving harmless thanks (a visit to the White House, bowling in the White House, etc.) to key donors. The issue here, to me, is that Obama said he wouldn’t do this and now he is. The Washington Times reports, “During his first nine months in office, President Obama has quietly rewarded scores of top Democratic donors with VIP access to the White House, private briefings with administration advisers and invitations to important speeches and town-hall meetings…One top donor described in an interview with The Times being given a birthday visit to the Oval Office. Another was allowed use of a White House-complex bowling alley for his family. Bundlers closest to the president were invited to watch a movie in the red-walled theater in the basement of the presidential mansion. Mr. Obama invited his top New York bundler, UBS Americas CEO Robert Wolf, to golf with him during the president’s Martha’s Vineyard vacation in August. At least 39 donors and fundraisers also were treated to a lavish White House reception on St. Patrick’s Day….”The argument is not that I’m pristine, because I’m swimming in the same muddy water,” Mr. Obama said during a campaign appearance. “The argument is that I know it’s muddy, and I want to clean it up.” ”
  33. Obama’s Broken Promise to Africa 10/31/9 - NewsReal blog reports, “Not only did Obama break promise after promise he made to Americans; he did the same with promises he made to Africans. When campaigning for the presidency, Obama said he would “boost money for AIDS funds, education program[s] and poverty-reduction.” But ten months after he took office, Africans are still waiting for the money and assistance the president pledged — while treatable diseases and starvation are killing large numbers of children on the continent.”
  34. Obama’s Attorney General Breaks His
    Jake Tapper

    Jake Tapper

    Own New “State Secrets” Rules!
    10/31/9 The Obama Administration defending the Bush surveilance tactics?! How can this be? Jake Tapper at ABC News: “The Obama administration invoked the controversial “state secrets” privilege again on Friday, arguing that if U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker were to permit a legal case against the government to proceed, he would be putting national security at risk…Holder said he was invoking the privilege despite having outlined new policies and procedures last month containing new internal and external checks and balances for the Justice Department to follow before invoking the privilege, requiring “a thorough, multi-stage review and rely(ing) upon robust judicial and congressional oversight.”…”The Obama administration has essentially adopted the position of the Bush administration in these cases,” said Kevin Bankston, a lawyer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, “even though candidate Obama was incredibly critical of both the warrantless wiretapping program and the Bush administration’s abuse of the state secrets privilege.” The Obama-Biden campaign website describes in part “The Problem” as the Bush administration having “invoked a legal tool known as the ’state secrets’ privilege more than any other previous administration to get cases thrown out of civil court.” But President Obama has invoked the state secrets privilege in a number of cases since taking office…The case is a class action suit brought by four Brooklynites alleging that the Bush administration engaged in wholesale dragnet surveillance of ordinary Americans in which they were unjustly caught because they regularly made phone calls and sent emails to individuals outside the U.S., specifically in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Egypt, the Netherlands, and Norway.”
  35. Obama Invites a Terrorist to the White House as a GUEST! 10/31/9 - Remember when candidate Obama lied and said Weather Underground Terrorist Bill Ayers was just some guy in his neighborhood? One of thousands of people that he just knows? Hmmm. They published a visitors list to the White House online now. Seems that Barack has had his pal Ayers (who has never apologized for his terrorist acts against our great nation) as a GUEST at the White House twice!! I thought Obama said Ayers would play no role in his administration! What an amazing liar this President is! Ayers is playing some kind of role for Obama. This one should make the blood boil of everyone who voted against him and should demonstrate to those who voted for him what an absolute fool he made of them!

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