Best of the Blog …
A reader powered selection of the broken promises, meanderings, flip-flops, and fabrications of the 44th President.
Leading off with this collection from stop the aclu …
Lobbyist and special interests will have no part in my administration…but perhaps we can make exceptions.
I vow to cut funding of missle defense…or maybe not.
While we are at it we’re going to close Gitmo….or maybe not.
We will investigate the CIA’s interrogation techniques and make them adhere to the same rules approved by the military….but perhaps we will keep some torture aspects.
….and now…perhaps we won’t pursue criminal investigations into interrogation of terrorist detainees.
Please help us keep an on-going record of fauxbama’s foibles in the comments section.
nuke
vimto1
no2liberals
Robert D
Murder of Ravens
Beto Ochoa
swampie
theobromophile
jseedubya
cesarzambrano
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama may consider delaying a campaign promise – to roll back tax cuts on high-income Americans – as part of his economic recovery strategy,
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Bomp, bomp, bomp, another one bites the dust.
I’ll bet he don’t roll back his gun banning. I’m off to get a new Ruger 1022. On sale, $219.
SwampMan and I were going to buy some ammo and another weapon of mass destruction last night at Gander Mountain but, after leaving the restaurant and venturing out into the cold, we decided to go home instead.
Maybe tomorrow night when the weather won’t be quite as cold.
How many more gaffes before we can call him stupid?
Link
The Audacity of a Dope
Obama Names Bill Clinton to Presidential Post.
BWAAAAH-HAAAH-HAAH-HAW!
I really don’t like knowing our president publicly cusses like that. Its crass. Not very presidential.
Nah, that was satire.
Yeah, definitely satire. I didn’t see the MF word…..dead giveaway.
B-Ho, lying then or lying now?
About that windfall profits tax. Nevermind
Rightwing Nuthouse has Obama, the promise breaker
Dang.
Anti-Mullah has this.
OBAMA HOME $900,000 OVER MORTGAGE LIMIT!
Be sure and click on the “much more” at the bottom.
/dang
Well, maybe lobbyists aren’t so bad after all.
Link
B-Ho sure can pick em….
More Here
This has got to be the most troublesome pre-inauguration government meltdown in the history of the USA. What’s next?
Hillary….
You mean This troublesome meltdown?
Hehehe, just a Clintonian coinicidence …
Norman Hsu could be a problem for Hillary. His trial starts Jan. 12.
I stand corrected. The BHO troublesome meltdown. Why won’t the American people wake up and see what’s going on and vote these Librats and other scum out of office?
Leon Panetta to head CIA
Another Clinton crony. More hopey changey. Also this quote from the article: Panetta is a surprise pick since he has no experience in the intelligence world.
Obama Breaks Pledge on Inauguration Donations
A full 90 percent of donations to fund Barack Obama’s Jan. 20 inauguration have come from well-heeled fundraisers — including Wall Street executives whose companies have received federal bailout money.
Sounds like BHO is going to make Carter look like a Saint.
Just over a week to go until Fauxbama is inaugurated, and he’s already backtraking on hopeychangeville.
Does that surprise you? Same old snake crawling weasels they always been!!
Obama has “Read my lips” moment.
Too big to fail. The annointed one’s appointment to be Secretary of the Treasury: Timothy Geitner’s story.
(It’s his story, and he’s sticking to it)
No lobbyists for Obama, well errrr, uhhh, except for this guy
“I can unequivocally say that I will not be running for national office in four years. I am a believer in knowing what you’re doing when you apply for a job and I think that if I were to seriously consider running on a national ticket, I would essentially have to start now. There may be some who are comfortable with doing that, but I am not one of those people.”
(Barck Obama when he had just been elected to the U S Senate in 2004. )
Tsk, Tsk [Andrew Stuttaford]
‘Climate change’ moralists are always talking about the need to take responsibility/set an example in the face of the imminent planetary apocalypse. Imagine my surprise, therefore, when I read this:
WASHINGTON — The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. There was, however, a logical explanation: Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat. “He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?” said Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. “He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there.
Thermostat down, coat on, Mr. President: the planet’s in peril (or so you tell us).
01/29 10:33 AM (National Review Online)
What was it he said?
Oh…I remember.
Flippity-Floppity
Promises broken
Barack Obama Campaign Promise No. 234:
Promise Broken
Allow five days of public comment before signing bills
To reduce bills rushed through Congress and to the president before the public has the opportunity to review them, Obama “will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days.”
More Lobbyists in Obama’s government!
USA Today reports that Obama hires shows that 21 have registered as federal lobbyists. What happened to his pledge of NO LOBBYIST in my administration? More broken promises!
With more to come…daily.
Obama Short on Transparency Pledge Again
Last week we noted that Obama broke a transparency-related promise [1] when he signed the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into law without first posting it on the White House Web site for a five-day public comment period. Now it looks like he’s done it again with the bill to reauthorize and expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Obama promised on both his transition Web site [2], change.gov, and the White House Web site’s ethics page [3] (PDF) (before it got taken down [4]) that he wouldn’t sign any non-emergency bill into law without first posting it on whitehouse.gov for public comment five days before. But the first bill he signed into law, the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, wasn’t posted online [1] until after Obama signed it.
This time he did a little bit better: He posted the SCHIP bill online on Sunday [5] (albeit during the Super Bowl) and signed it into law on Wednesday.
Obama’s own tax problems…..
Illinois prohibits state legislators from taking speaking fees, and Barack reported “speaking fees.”:
Apparently, as an Illinois state legislator through 2004, Barack was prohibited from taking honoraria for speaking under the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act.
But what about Barack Obama’s 2000 and 2002 tax returns?
2000: On his 2000 Schedule C-EZ, Barack reported that he received $16,500 as a “Foundation director/Educational speaker.”
2001: On his 2001 Schedule C-EZ, Barack reported $98,158 from a Chicago law firm, Miner, Barnhill, for “Legal services/attorney” (and nothing for speaking).
2002: On his 2002 Schedule C, Barack reported $34,491 for “LEGAL SERVCES / SPEAKING FEES.”
These “speaking fees” are in addition to the amounts that Barack was paid as an employee, a lecturer at the University of Chicago, reported on the first page of his 1040s.
Barack Obama throws Joe Bidenism under the bus
Another cabinet pick gone.
Judd Gregg Withdraws Nomination for Commerce Secretary
video report: Obama coin rip-off
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obama’s broken promises were entirely predictable
President Obama has allowed seventeen exceptions to the no-lobbyist rule. And remember that “sunlight before signing” pledge, giving citizens enough time to read a bill — and offer their opinions on it — before it is signed into law? Well, that’s gone to the wayside, too.
here’s the video of ubama’s transparency/posting to the internet pledge (broken twice already) Link
obama’s revenge
President Obama’s narcissistic charm, even temperament, skill with words (teleprompter included), hunger to please, radical agenda, and subterranean rage at the “unfair” American system have been brilliantly exploited by powerful leftist radicals and Marxists in the United States, who for decades have plotted America’s path to socialism. He is their pawn, totally dispensable but handy while the “aura” lasts.
These “handlers” saw in Obama the ideal blank slate on which to actualize their agenda, and they made sure the slate remained blank by concealing (or destroying) any evidence of his past, including his birth certificate, Selective Service record, visa(s), school transcripts, and other vital documents. All of which is costing his moneyed backers – including America-loathing billionaire George Soros – multimillions in lawyers’ fees to fight the proliferating lawsuits that seek the truth about this stealth president.
B-HO:The Prince of Thieves.
Obama under fire for picking Chicago pol fundraiser as ambassador to Britain
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Fauxbama’s NAFTA flip-flop Link
That was then, this is now …
Obama destroying the USA to rebuild it in his own image?
Why…yes!
more personnel problems for obama
Lawyer’s Lawyer, Radical’s Radical.
Fauxbama’s energy policy is just more hot air.
In a second reversal of the Bush administration, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Wednesday he is scrapping leases for oil-shale development on federal land in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
SALT LAKE CITY — In a second reversal of the Bush administration, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Wednesday he is scrapping leases for oil-shale development on federal land in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
Salazar rescinded a lease offer made last month for research, development and demonstration projects that could have led to oil-shale works on 1.9 million acres in the three states, greatly expanding the program.
Salazar’s action marked the second time he has reversed the Bush administration. He also halted the leasing of oil and gas drilling parcels near national parks in Utah three weeks ago. Then, as now, he called it an ill-conceived midnight decision by the former administration.
Obama to Seek New Assault Weapons Ban
Attorney General Says White House Also Looking at Ban on ‘Cop-Killer’ Bullets.
We saw this one coming down the line.
Also, there is no such thing as a ‘cop killer’ bullet. Another scaremonger tactic, a sensational name, to fool the public into approval.
Obama hides his name on earmark
Congress will scrub President Obama’s name from a list of earmark cosponsors in the $410 billion omnibus spending bill.
The reason: Whether Obama cosponsored the earmark depends on what the definition of earmark is and when an earmark becomes an earmark, according to the Senate Appropriations Committee.
The provision itself is still considered an earmark, and it’s staying in the bill (HR 1105) — but it’s losing the Obama brand.
OMG, another freaking tax cheat
No wonder they don’t give a shite about raising taxes. They don’t intend to pay them
How Obama And Biden Fought The Surge
Robert D, your link was busted, so I put this link in, knowing what it was you were referring to.
Thank you. From the laptop I can’t access everything.
Fact-checking fauxbama’s sotu speech
President Obama’s first speech to a joint session of Congress was stuffed with signals about the new direction his budget will take and meant-to-be reassuring words about the economy. But it was also peppered with exaggerations and factual misstatements.
Oh. Well that changes everything. /s
ron kirk, the latest fauxbama nominee with tax problems
Link
what did the messiah say about earmarks? I forget….
Apparently so did he >>
16 Emmanuel ear marks in spending bill. Attaboy Rahm. Never let a good crisis go to waste. Link
B-HO’s boneheaded pick for Sec. of Treasury.
Evidently, the White House gift shop was all out of “MY GOVERNMENT DELEGATION WENT TO WASHINGTON AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY T-SHIRT” T-shirts.
Steyn nails it link
Unprecendented level of tax evasion among obama appointees
A list of Obama’s potential high-level appointees who have withdrawn from consideration – mostly for failure to pay taxes – since Obama took office in January.
FBI raids office of D.C. CTO, Obama appointee
Federal agents this morning are searching the Judiciary Square office of Washington, D.C.’s Chief Technology Officer.
The search is part of “an ongoing investigation,” said a spokeswoman for the FBI’s D.C. Field Office, Lindsay Gotwin, said. She declined to comment further.
The outgoing Chief Technology Officer, Vivek Kundra, was appointed last week Chief Information Officer by the Obama administration. His last day at the city government office was February 4, a spokeswoman for D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, Leslie Kershaw, said.
Another one bites the dust
“Democratic sources say that H. Rodgin Cohen, a partner in the New York law firm Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, and the leading candidate for Deputy Treasury Secretary, has withdrawn from consideration.
It’s the third withdrawal of a top Treasury Department staff pick in less than a week.
I reported last week that Cohen was likely to be officially nominated for the Deputy Treasury Secretary position. “
Don Surber says: 52 days, 52 mistakes…. LINK
Despite his solemn promise to the American people to keep lobbyists out of his Administration, two more have slipped in. The Hill reports:
The waivers were provided for Jocelyn Frye, director of policy and projects in the Office of the First Lady, and Cecilia Munoz, director of intergovernmental affairs in the executive office of the president.
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Munoz was a senior vice president for the National Council of La Raza, where she supervised all legislative and advocacy activities on the state and local levels. Munoz was heavily involved in the immigration battles in Congress in recent years, and is now a principal liaison to the Hispanic community for the administration.
Chief justice publicly agrees to read Obama-birth docs.
Teleprompter Gaffe: President Obama Thanks Himself — UPDATE: Where’s the Video?
“I’ve been searching for the video of Obama accidentally reading Irish PM Brian Cowen’s speech yesterday. He even thanks himself at the end! Apparently his teleprompter went loopy.
If this were GWB, the video would be everywhere, yet I can’t find a clip on the Internet of a public press conference that took place yesterday. It will come out, but this is amazing.
Thank Sky News for doing its job:
Mr Cowen stopped, turned to the president and said: “That’s your speech.”
A laughing Mr Obama returned to the podium to take over but it seems the script had finally been switched and the US president ended up thanking himself for inviting everyone to the party.
Mr Obama is an accomplished orator but is becoming known in America as the “teleprompt president” over his reliance on the machine when he gives a speech.
Be afraid everyone, be very afraid.
Update: 10:30 am PST: Still no video released. This is the third Obama gaffe with no video. First the wrong door incident at the White House, then the helicopter head bump and now this. A dangerous precedent is being set here. If any other politician made this kind of blunder it would be everywhere.
Update 4:00pm PST: Still no video. Stories are starting to appear blaming the whole thing on Irish PM Brian Cowen and insinuating that Obama thanked himself as a joke. That is not the tone of the original Sky News article and if that is the case why is the video still absent from the internet or cable news? It surely exists.”
Obama’s computer chief is a thief
Now it can be told: The mysterious petty theft that President Barack Obama’s new computer chief committed at age 21 was shoplifting four dress shirts worth $134 from J.C. Penney. A 1996 Montgomery County, Md., police report obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday under a public records law shows Vivek Kundra was observed by a security guard putting the men’s shirts into a shopping bag and leaving the store without paying. Sgt. Tom Stanton wrote that Kundra was arrested after a brief foot chase and the property was recovered. Kundra pleaded guilty, paid a $100 fine and $55 in court courts and was ordered to do 80 hours of community service. The White House has called a “youthful indiscretion” long ago resolved.
obama’s book bonanza
As he empathized with recession-weary Americans, President Obama arranged in the days just before he took office to secure a $500,000 advance for a children’s book project, a disclosure report shows.
The terms of the book deal were disclosed in a Senate financial disclosure report filed Tuesday.
Analysts say there don’t appear to be any rules that would bar such transactions after a president takes office, but it’s unclear whether an incoming or sitting president has ever signed a book deal upon entering the White House.
“I don’t recall any sitting president entering into a book deal,” said campaign finance lawyer Jan Baran, former general counsel to the Republican National Committee. “They all have historically done that after they leave office.
Obama blinks on veterans aftercare.
Obama insults special olympics ( obama’s teleprompter had no comment)
You know how you can tell when a President has a bad day? When his comparison of an American corporation to terrorists is the second-stupidest thing he said:
The first appearance by a sitting president on “The Tonight Show” may well end up being the last.
President Obama, in his taping with Jay Leno Thursday afternoon, attempted to yuk it up with the funnyman, and ended up insulting the disabled.
Towards the end of his approximately 40-minute appearance, the president talked about how he’s gotten better at bowling and has been practicing in the White House bowling alley.
He bowled a 129, the president said.
“That’s very good, Mr. President,” Leno said sarcastically.
It’s “like the Special Olympics or something,” the president said.
Democrat anger at Obama overkill.
Can we call him “stupid” yet?
Obama doesn’t know the name of the President of France….American MSM ignores …
Who is the president of France?
If you answered Jacques Chirac instead of Nicolas Sarkozy, you may already be the president of the United States.
Obama sent a letter to the French president, and called him Jacques Chirac.
Maybe Barack Obama was too busy running for the next-higher-office (which is his his one strength) to bother reading a newspaper or a magazine or even a book to discover that they held an election a couple of years ago and elected L’Americain, Nicolas Sarkozy, as president.
The American media has ignored this faux pas. But the French have not.
Obama breaks own signing rules
Well, promises are just words.
fauxbama’s first 100 days …. Link
More 0bama fraud
Fauxbama = Fraud
Rightvoices is tracking also.
Here
the obama dictatorship
Obama didn’t want any advice from Congress on the decision to ask GM CEO Rick Wagoner to resign, according to Carl Levin (D), Michigan’s senior senator.
“He didn’t ask us about it, he informed us,” Levin told reporters in a conference call Monday afternoon. “The president said he’d already decided.”
Levin said he and three other lawmakers were informed of the decision in a phone call Obama made from the Oval Office. Obama told the members of Congress that Wagoner needed to resign so that the administration could show the public it was making an effort at a fresh start with helping the auto industry, according to Levin.
Levin repeatedly described the decision as “sad,” and noted that Wagoner had given a lifetime of service to GM. He praised Wagner’s willingness to voluntarily “retire” from his post, and did not say whether he disagreed with Obama’s decision.
NYT Spiked Obama Donor Story
A lawyer involved with legal action against Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) told a House Judiciary subcommittee on March 19 The New York Times had killed a story in October that would have shown a close link between ACORN, Project Vote and the Obama campaign because it would have been a “a game changer.”
Heather Heidelbaugh, who represented the Pennsylvania Republican State Committee in the lawsuit against the group, recounted for the ommittee what she had been told by a former ACORN worker who had worked in the group’s Washington, D.C. office. The former worker, Anita Moncrief, told Ms. Heidelbaugh last October, during the state committee’s litigation against ACORN, she had been a “confidential informant for several months to The New York Times reporter, Stephanie Strom.”
Ms. Moncrief had been providing Ms. Strom with information about ACORN’s election activities. Ms. Strom had written several stories based on information Ms. Moncrief had given her.
During her testimony, Ms. Heidelbaugh said Ms. Moncrief had told her The New York Times articles stopped when she revealed that the Obama presidential campaign had sent its maxed-out donor list to ACORN’s Washington, D.C. office.
Ms. Moncrief told Ms. Heidelbaugh the campaign had asked her and her boss to “reach out to the maxed-out donors and solicit donations from them for Get Out the Vote efforts to be run by ACORN.”
This is a good list! There’s also a list of Obama Scandals at ConservativeAmerican.org
Obama Administration Scandals List
thanks pandrew
The President Is ‘Keeping Score’
Chicago politics has moved into the White House.
fauxbama bows to the king of saudi arabia.
Link
Time tracks “top 10 obama gaffes”
Of course, we all know, there are a lot more than 10
So what language do they speak in Austria anyway?
It’s almost too impossible to believe: the greatest President that has ever lived, Barack Obama, actually made a mistake while answering a question. Now, this was not an error in judgment: it was what you’d call a “gaffe.” And as you know, a “gaffe” is only worth reporting if it’s done by a Republican or an old white guy. Sorry, same thing.
It happened during a news conference in Strasbourg, France , when the Messiah was responding to a reporter from a place called Austria. In his struggle to answer, the One said, “There’s a lot of — I don’t know what the term is in Austrian — wheeling and dealing …”
Now, I’m not going to make fun of Obama for thinking Austrian is a language – because, frankly, if someone asked me what’s spoken in Austria, I wouldn’t know.
( In Austria they speak a dialect of german, Deutsch [pronounced doy-tch] )
Thats pretty sad… He should know that. He’s the president.
I take that back. There are other languages spoken there also. But German is the official and most widely spoken one.
Obama grants 2 more ethics waivers. (surprise!)
President Obama has issued waivers allowing two appointees who were formerly registered lobbyists to work for his administration.
The waivers ensure the two appointees can work for the administration under his executive order on ethics, which was intended to reform the revolving door between K Street and the government.
The waivers were provided for Jocelyn Frye, director of policy and projects in the Office of the First Lady, and Cecilia Munoz, director of intergovernmental affairs in the executive office of the president. The two waivers were announced on the White House blog Tuesday evening, which said the exceptions were granted under a “public interest” exemption of the executive order on ethics.
_April 2007: Congress cleared a $124 billion spending bill that provided $90 billion for war costs but mandated the withdrawal of U.S. troops within six months. Obama voted yes, but President George W. Bush vetoed the legislation.
_May 2007: Congress approved a roughly $100 billion spending measure to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and domestic projects, including hurricane relief. Obama voted no.
LINK
another broken obama promise
“Obama and Biden are calling for legislation that would allow withdrawals of 15% up to $10,000 from retirement accounts without penalty (although subject to the normal taxes). This would apply to withdrawals in 2008 (including retroactively) and 2009.”
Sources: Change.gov Agenda – The Economy
Subjects: Economy, Retirement
Updates:
Penalty-free 401(k) penalty withdrawals still not on the agenda, and taxes are due next week
Updated: Friday, April 10th, 2009 | By Angie Drobnic Holan
We’ve tracked this promise on penalty-free 401(k) withdrawals since President Barack Obama took office. It seems like it’s time to stick a fork in it and declare it done.
The measure, which Obama proposed during the fall of 2008 as the economy was swooning, would have allowed workers to take money from their 401(k) retirement accounts before retirement, but without the usual penalty of 10 percent on top of regular taxes. The idea was to help cash-strapped workers get through hard times without having to absorb penalties for their bad fortune.
The potential downside to the idea is that money taken out now won’t earn compounded growth later to build wealth. Also, early withdrawals lock in market losses that might turn around in time.
Penalty-free withdrawals weren’t included in the economic stimulus bill that became the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Nor were they part of Obama’s budget outline, which Congress approved on April 2, 2009. It doesn’t appear that any member of Congress has introduced such a measure. Everyone we’ve asked about the idea says it’s not going to happen.
Fauxbama’s Iraq press conference staged
Stephen Hurst’s AP report is upfront about Obama’s fervent desire for a hero’s welcome:
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama went for the defining television shot by capping his first extended foreign tour with a surprise visit to Iraq.
He got it – pictures of hundreds of U.S. troops cheering wildly as he told them it was time for the Iraqis to take charge of their own future.
Just no mention of HOW Obama managed to fake this response: Obama lover’s to the front! ….
“Cheered wildly by U.S. troops,” begins Jennifer Democratic Operative Loven’s AP report on Obama’s surprise visit to Iraq on Tuesday.
Quite a contrast to the silent treatment Marines gave Obama at his Camp LeJeune speech in late February. Just how did Obama manage to fix that little problem?
According to a sergeant in Iraq :
We were pre-screened, asked by officials “Who voted for Obama?”, and then those who raised their hands were shuffled to the front of the receiving line. They even handed out digital cameras and asked them to hold them up. [Via Macsmind.]
The Darfur Shuffle.
Sebelius caught red-handed!
The Washington career of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius may be in danger after it was revealed that the Health nominee reported only a fraction of her campaign contributions from Kansas’ late-term abortionist George Tiller. At least one GOP senator reportedly said the issue has raised doubts among Republican senators about the governor, a well-known champion of abortion that Obama picked to head the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Obama auto czar caught up in NY pension fund scandal
Steven Rattner, the leader of the Obama administration’s auto task force, was one of the executives involved with payments under scrutiny in a probe of an alleged kickback scheme at New York state’s pension fund, according to a person familiar with the matter.
A Securities and Exchange Commission complaint says a “senior executive” of Mr. Rattner’s investment firm met in 2004 with a politically connected consultant about a finder’s fee. Later, the complaint says, the firm received an investment from the state pension fund and paid $1.1 million in fees.
The “senior executive,” not named in the complaint, is Mr. Rattner, according to the person familiar with the matter. He is co-founder of the investment firm, Quadrangle Group, which he left to join the Treasury Department to oversee the auto task force earlier this year. Neither Mr. Rattner nor Quadrangle has been accused of any wrongdoing. Mr. Rattner did not return calls for comment.
OOPS! Sebelius “forgot” about another $200,000 donation …
A second financial revelation has cast further doubt on Gov. Kathleen Sebelius’ representation to the Senate Finance Committee of the nature of her relationship with late-term abortionist George Tiller.
Sebelius is President Obama’s nominee for the secretary of the Health and Human Services (HHS). She is currently seeking Senate confirmation.
After Sebelius was recently found to have reported only a fraction of Tiller’s $38,450 in donations to her insurance commissioner campaign, Operation Rescue yesterday released a copy of a 2002 letter from Tiller stating that he contributed $200,000 to his political action committee (PAC) to assist Sebelius’ gubernatorial reelection.
In the letter addressed to members of ProKanDo, Tiller’s political action committee, Tiller warns against Sebelius’ “anti-choice” opponent Tim Shallenburger, and expresses regret that his “personal contribution of $200,000 to ProKanDo” was not enough “to alert voters to the anti-choice position of Mr. Shallenberger (sic).”
Tiller then urges constituents to raise another $250,000 to help spread the message that Sebelius’ opponent “does not trust women.”
(To view Tiller’s letter, go to: http://operationrescue.org/pdfs/Tiller%20letter,%202002.pdf)
The FBI earlier this year launched a nationwide operation targeting white supremacists and “militia/sovereign-citizen extremist groups,” including a focus on veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, according to memos sent from bureau headquarters to field offices.
The initiative, dubbed Operation Vigilant Eagle, was outlined in February, two months before a memo giving a similar warning was issued on April 7 by the Department of Homeland Security.
The aim of the FBI’s effort with the Defense Department, which was rolled into the Vigilant Eagle program, is to “share information regarding Iraqi and Afghanistan war veterans whose involvement in white supremacy and/or militia sovereign citizen extremist groups poses a domestic terrorism threat,” according to the Feb. 23 FBI memo.
LINK “Veterans a Focus of FBI Probe”
The First 100 days …
The Dolts of the Obama Administration
Another shady Obama nominee (Malkin)
The first 100 days. ConservativeAmerican.org has the list.
SCANDALS LIST PAGES…
PAGE ONE #1-50
PAGE TWO #51-100
PAGE THREE #101-#150
PAGE FOUR #151-200
PAGE FIVE #201-250
Obama OK’s jets to fly low over Manhattan, panic sets in
A White House official apologized Monday after a low-flying Boeing 747 spotted above the Manhattan skyline frightened workers and residents into evacuating buildings.
Witnesses reported seeing the plane circle over the Upper New York Bay near the Statue of Liberty.
Witnesses reported seeing the plane circle over the Upper New York Bay near the Statue of Liberty.
The huge aircraft, which functions as Air Force One when the president is aboard, was taking part in a classified, government-sanctioned photo shoot, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
TOTUS mishap: Obama off prompter
Just when the teleprompter gets out of the news…
Maybe President Obama’s teleprompter wanted more coverage. After all, last month it was getting a ton of media attention. Especially when the teleprompter was retired temporarily in favor of a giant IMAX-type screen at the president’s last press conference.
Today, the teleprompter broke the moratorium and got back in the news cycle.
When the president was announcing the members of his science and technology council, the teleprompter froze up.
Not having note cards, what else could the president do but admonish the TOTUS (Teleprompter of the United States) to knock it off.
“In addition to John…. sorry, the….. I just noticed that I jumped the gun here,” Obama said.
Then he laid the smackdown on the teleprompter.
“Go ahead and move it up,” he demanded of his machine. “I’d already – I’d already introduced all you guys.”
Link to video
The Most ethical and transparent administration in the history of the universe, part 12
Obama has settled on a train-wreck of a nominee for Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). On Tuesday, the Senate, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee approved Ronald Sims in a voice vote. They did so despite having credible information indicating financial mismanagement and ethical transgressions, including two egregious abuses of a state freedom of information law.
Sims has been King County Executive in Washington state since 1996. Under his watch, local government was fined after it failed to produce documents concerning construction of the Qwest sports stadium. The Supreme Court of Washington, in a blistering ruling on the case issued this past January, said officials illegally withheld documents from requestor Armen Yousoufian. “The unchallenged findings of fact demonstrate King County repeatedly deceived and misinformed Yousoufian for years,” Justice Richard Sanders wrote. “King County told Yousoufian it produced all the requested documents, when in fact it had not.”
Sims told Sen. David Vitter, R-LA, during his confirmation hearing last week that he couldn’t comment on his role in the stadium case due to continuing litigation.
Tax audits are no laughing matter,
At his Arizona State University commencement speech last Wednesday, Mr. Obama noted that ASU had refused to grant him an honorary degree, citing his lack of experience, and the controversy this had caused. He then demonstrated ASU’s point by remarking, “I really thought this was much ado about nothing, but I do think we all learned an important lesson. I learned never again to pick another team over the Sun Devils in my NCAA brackets. . . . President [Michael] Crowe and the Board of Regents will soon learn all about being audited by the IRS.”
Just a joke about the power of the presidency. Made by Jay Leno it might have been funny. But as told by Mr. Obama, the actual president of the United States, it’s hard to see the humor. Surely he’s aware that other presidents, most notably Richard Nixon, have abused the power of the Internal Revenue Service to harass their political opponents. But that abuse generated a powerful backlash and with good reason. Should the IRS come to be seen as just a bunch of enforcers for whoever is in political power, the result would be an enormous loss of legitimacy for the tax system.
Do you remember last week when Obama said that healthcare leaders pledged to cut costs by $2 trillion? Yeah, turns out that it isn’t exactly accurate. Wait! Obama not being entirely truthful? You have to be kidding me!
Here is the link
Obama has broken four campaign promises on overseas aid and risks reversing the successes of the Bush administration, HIV-Aids activists have claimed
Key pledges to boost money for Aids funds, education programmes and poverty-reduction schemes have all been missed, the Global Aids Alliance (GAA) said.
The Washington-based organisation said that figures from Mr Obama’s May 7 budget request to the US Congress set the administration on a path to breaking its campaign promises to the people of Africa.
A pledge to spend £4.3 billion on bilateral Aids programmes under the Mr Obama’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (Pepfar) has been shaved back to £3.3 billion.
Mr Obama had also promised to contribute about £1.8 billion on the Global Fund to fight Aids, tuberculosis and malaria, but his budget request fell short by £1.2 billion, the GAA said.
It calculated that this meant that one million people will not receive treatment for HIV, and 2.9 million women will miss out on services to help prevent passing the virus to their unborn children.
“Underfunding these critical programmes has grave consequences, especially during the current global economic crisis,” said Paul Zeitz, director of the GAA, speaking in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
Obama-isms
The Official list of 301 Obama Administration Scandals!
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By Peter Andrew – ConservativeAmerican.org
Obama snubs the British (again)
LONDON — Queen Elizabeth is not amused.
Indeed, she is decidedly displeased, angry even, that she was not invited to join President Obama and France’s president, Nicolas Sarkozy, next week at commemorations of the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, according to reports published in Britain’s mass-circulation tabloid newspapers on Wednesday. Pointedly, Buckingham Palace did not deny the reports.
Obama announces end of ban on lobbyists. No need to get exceptions any more…
Roll Call is reporting that during the typical Friday afternoon document dump — a practice used to hide actions that might prove somewhat embarrassing to the White House — the administration quietly announced that some of the former restrictions on lobbying ballyhooed about during the late campaign have been lifted.
Let special interests ring!
Roll Call (see here, but subscription is required) says that the administration lifted bans on lobbyists that have some part of spending “stimulus” funds. So now getting hooks into bloated federal spending is open season for the very lobbyists that Obama pretended to disdain only months ago.
So much for hopinchange. more at redstate
The Obama flip-flops continue from Politico …
Since winning the election, President Barack Obama has famously flip-flopped on many of the major issues that he championed on the campaign trail. But did you know he’s also flip-flopped on a myriad of less publicized issues?
This much everybody knows: Even before taking office, Obama broke his promise to not appoint lobbyists to his administration. Since then, he’s abandoned his promises to pay for every dollar of new government spending and bring home all combat troops from Iraq within 18 months. And in recent days, he’s outraged his political base by reversing his earlier commitments to eliminate military tribunals and release photos depicting prisoner abuse.
All those well-publicized reversals have overshadowed the administration’s flip-flops on a host of additional positions. Here are just some of the biggest flip-flops that you may not have noticed:
Read more: “The Obama flip-flops you don’t know – Alex Conant – POLITICO.com” – http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/23144.html#ixzz0HCSzXOSL&A
Swordless sailors
Graduating midshipmen of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis are being told in writing to leave at home or in their vehicles all “ceremonial swords” and anything else “that might be considered a weapon or a threat by screeners” for Friday’s outdoor commencement ceremonies featuring an address by President Barack Obama.
Inside the Beltway has obtained the academy’s list of prohibited items for this year’s graduation exercises, which, besides ceremonial swords, includes umbrellas.
ubama b-slaps the brits again
British officials knew nothing of the arrangement until the men, all ethnic Uighurs from western China, were already airborne en route from Guantánamo to the British island territory, better known as a haven for tourists and tax exiles than former terrorist suspects.
Alarm bells sounded in London when Ewart Brown, the Bermudian Premier, welcomed the men as “landed in Bermuda in the short term, provided with the opportunity to become naturalised citizens and thereafter afforded the right to travel and leave Bermuda, potentially settling elsewhere”.
Walpin-gate. Grassley demands records
A Senate Republican is asking for information on any role first lady Michelle Obama’s office may have played in her husband’s decision to fire the watchdog for the federal AmeriCorps program over his investigation of Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson.
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa requested that Alan Solomont, chairman of the government-run Corporation for National and Community Service, which runs the AmeriCorps program, provide “any and all records, e-mail, memoranda, documents, communications or other information” related to contacts with officials in the first lady’s office.
Michelle Obama’s former chief of staff, Jackie Norris, is expected to join the national service corporation as a senior adviser on June 22. Norris was a senior adviser in Obama’s campaign for Iowa’s precinct caucuses, and she was state director for his general election campaign in Iowa.
The president on Thursday told Congress he had lost confidence in Gerald Walpin, the national service agency’s inspector general. White House counsel Gregory Craig, in a letter to Grassley, cited criticism of Walpin’s investigation of Johnson, a former all-star point guard for the Phoenix Suns and a supporter of Obama’s presidential campaign.
Another FOB (friend of Obama) is on the spot …
The List Keeps Growing
The Official Obama Administration Scandals List hit 350 last night. He averages more than two a day for each day he serves! The list is not just scandals. It also contains Obama administration lies, broken promises, big mistakes, blunders, gaffes, and hyprocrisy.
The list has more than 45 Obama appointment scandals including all the tax cheaters he hired. The latest additions included the scandal over President Obama’s firing of an Inspector General who investigated one of the President’s Men and the fact he violated a law HE WROTE when he fired the IG!
EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Attorney nominee won’t ID all clients
Ethics raised by exclusion
By Jim McElhatton (Contact) | Tuesday, June 23, 2009
More “transparency” from obamaworld.
He may not be a tax cheat, but he defends them in court. At least the ones he will identify.
Michelle’s vegetable garden is full of lead.
Bwahhahahaaaaa
http://u.tv/News/Lead-found-in-Michelle-Obamas-White-House-vegetable-garden/2a08515c-e3c7-4523-9d9c-182bb9ee0ab0
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10 More Ethics Waivers for Obama WH
The.most.ethical.administration.evah
needs 10 more exceptions to their own rules.
Culture of corruption continues …
Carol Levin is keeping score!!
Why does ubama keep snubbing the brits?
LINK
Hey! It seems that you guys have something in common:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090928/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_al_qaida_zawahri
Maybe you can be friends on Facebook. Get together and chat about how much you hate things. I’m sure that it won’t take too long before you find other interests.
Well that’s one thing al qaida has right.
Maybe you can find someone to talk to about that tingly sensation that goes up your leg every time you see “The Fraud”
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another link for the Holder File
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/30/holder-pressured-to-expedite-investigation-of-blac/“
Excellent summary from d. horowittz.
DISCOVER THE NETWORKS
Yes it is.
Day By Day has an excellent summation of what we are facing due to his election.
<More linkage for the Holder file
Eric Holder’s racists in the DOJ strike again …
KINSTON, N.C. | Voters in this small city decided overwhelmingly last year to do away with the party affiliation of candidates in local elections, but the Obama administration recently overruled the electorate and decided that equal rights for black voters cannot be achieved without the Democratic Party.
The Justice Department’s ruling, which affects races for City Council and mayor, went so far as to say partisan elections are needed so that black voters can elect their “candidates of choice” – identified by the department as those who are Democrats and almost exclusively black.
WH gate crashers had ties to radical palestinian group and rashid khaliki
Link
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SALF-gate
49,000 questions for Obama’s Education Secretary Arne Duncan.
Another turd in the punchbowl
White House watch-list review chief gets ethics waiver
“The White House official leading the interagency review into the U.S. terrorist watch list system that contributed to a near-catastrophe on Christmas Day used to head a company that provides critical analysis to those who create the watch list. “
Oh well, what’s one more waiver when you have HOPE as the centerpiece of your foreign policy.
Fist-gate should make parents furious
Another ethical turd in the obama inner circle.
Yet another link for the Holder File…
“Eric Holder has apparently hired former Democratic campaign bloggers to work at the department in what appears to be a secret propaganda unit. According to a story at The Muffled Oar website, the bloggers are housed in the Office of Public Affairs (the press office). Their job is to place “anonymous comments, or comments under pseudonyms, at newspaper websites with stories critical of the Department of Justice, Holder and President Obama.”
Losing count … another ethics waiver for obama apointee
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=152177
After the first couple of hundred waivers, it doesn’t much matter what dingleberry said.