The Official list of Obama Administration Scandals!

By Peter Andrew
ConservativeAmerican.org

Contains scandals, mistakes, mishaps, blunders, broken promises, flip flops, gaffes, lies, etc. That’s too long of a name, so we call it the Scandals List. Okay?

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601. Obama Denies His Own Fascist-Like Enemies List! 8/11/9 President Obama today, at a carefully orchestrated town hall meeting on healthcare, denied the White House is keeping ‘an enemies list.’ “What we’ve said is, if someone sends you an email and you forward the question to us, we’ll answer that question.” Then to audience laughter he added that he is just trying to be responsive and some of his foes are painting his responsiveness as if he has an enemies list. Call it what you want. The White House is required to keep correspondence and does have a list of those against the Obamacare Nightmare. Rush Limbaugh today wondered why they would need the emails forwarded, rather than just receiving a question, if they didn’t want names. Another serious point is this: What he said isn’t true. He has not even told the American people what all the comments and questions were, so how on earth would we know if he has answered them? He certainly has not answered all of the questions even though he said, “We’ll answer them.” — Okay, Mr. President, show us the entire list of questions and answer each one. Then you can explain why you felt the need to have names and contact information of those opposing you! As we point out in our Scandals dated 8/4/9 and 8/7/9, his administration is breaking the law either way with this list. The law-breaking continues today with no one to tell the President that he is not above the law.
602. Obama Town Hall Lie about Single Payer System! 8/11/9 President Obama told a bold lie today at his carefully staged Town Hall meeting on Health Care: “I have not said I am in favor of a single payer system.” — In fact, he has said precisely that! Rush Limbaugh has audio of Obama saying he is in favor of a single payer system in 2007 and again in 2003.
603. Obama Town Hall Lie about Public Plan 8/11/9 President Obama said today he is in favor of having a public plan in the health care reform legislation to keep “insurance companies honest.” He said it will keep them honest “unless the public plan gets a tax-payer subsidy.” How would we start the public plan (there isn’t one now) without a subsidy? Who is going to pay the start-up costs for the public plan to get going even though they initially have no clients? And, does anyone really believe the public plan will not wind up being heavily subsidized? UPDATE 9/9/9: Obama promises Americans that taxpayers won’t subsidize “his” public health care plan! Hmmm…why does it cost $1.5-Trillion then? And, uhm….where do you get that $1.5-Trillion, if not from taxpayers? UPDATE 9/30/9: The National Review Online adds: “How quickly we forget the example of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Like those institutions, the public option would benefit from an implicit subsidy: Everyone would know that Washington would not allow the program to fail, and financial institutions would therefore offer it better rates. (During the Clinton administration, Obama adviser Larry Summers reported that a similar implicit guarantee was worth $6 billion per year to Fannie and Freddie.) The public option would thus be able to undercut its less-subsidized competitors.”
604. Obama’s Post Office Blunder - Uses UPS & FedEx to Denounce His Own Health Plan at Town Hall!!! 8/11/9 The nation’s first socialist President said today that a public option health insurance plan would not put private insurance companies out of business. He said, “If you think about it…UPS & FedEX are doin’ fine…It’s the Post Office that’s always havin’ problems.” — Read that quote again. Sooooooooo, the government plan for mail is “always havin’ problems” and now you want the government to be in charge of health care?! No way! Thanks for making our argument for us! It’s also a strong argument for eliminating the Post Office completely…and making sure we don’t re-elect you!
605. Obama Tells kid at Town Hall He Won’t Kill Grandma! 8/11/9 Presidentt Obama said there is no “death panel” in the Obamacare Nightmare and he won’t be killing your grandma. That’s reassuring. These words today despite his earlier comments that “these types of decisions are already being made by Medicare, Medicaid…” (that’s the government by the way). Earlier, A woman asked him if his plan would take into consideration her mother’s “will to live.” Obama said that they would not be able to take that into account and that perhaps the better option for Grandma would be to take a pain pill instead of having costly surgery. — So, is he killing Grandma or not?!




606. Obama Wrong About UPS & FedEx! 8/12/9 Even when he makes up facts, President Obama is wrong. Yesterday he pronounced that “UPS & FedEx are doin’ fine.” Not true. UPS Stock remains down substantially from pre-recession levels and second quarter earnings fell 49-percent, according to Bloomberg.com. FedEx stock also has suffered during the recession. Doin’ Fine??!! That’s probably not what investors in UPS and FedEx would say!
607. Even Politico says Obama will cut Medicare! 8/12/9 The Politico website also says there are Medicare cuts in the democrat’s government-run healthcare plan: “Critics say the proposed $380 billion Medicare cuts in the House bill — including cuts to the privately administered Medicare Advantage program — will lead to long waits for care, doctors dropping patients and doctors deciding if their older patients “are worth the cost,” as one TV and Web ad from the 60 Plus Association (AARP) warned.” — This President simply says whatever he wants, regardless of if it is true or not.

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608. AARP Says Obama is Lying About Health Care Plan!! 8/12/9 Fox News: “A group usually seen as one of…Obama’s allies in the health care debate — AARP — says the president went too far Tuesday when he said the seniors lobby had endorsed the legislation pending in Congress. AARP is sensitive to the issue because polls show that Medicare beneficiaries are worried their health care program will be cut to subsidize coverage for the uninsured. At the town hall in Portsmouth, N.H., Obama said, “We have the AARP onboard because they know this is a good deal for our seniors.” He added, “AARP would not be endorsing a bill if it was undermining Medicare.” But Tom Nelson, AARP’s chief operating officer, said, “Indications that we have endorsed any of the major health care reform bills currently under consideration in Congress are inaccurate.” - UPDATE 8/13/9 Fox News: “White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters that Obama did not mean to misinform Americans when he said Tuesday at a town hall in Portsmouth, N.H., that the senior lobby had backed his legislation. “AARP has said they are certainly supportive and have been for years on comprehensive health reform,” Gibbs said. “I don’t think the president meant to imply anything untoward. I think he discussed the notion that AARP is supportive of legislation — or, I’m sorry, an agreement that would — that would fund filling the doughnut hole for seniors as part of Medicare Part D, as well as additional savings for comprehensive health care reform.” — Even the Gibbster can’t get it right.
609. Obama Changing “Cookie” Rules - Even ACLU is Upset About This One! 8/12/9 More Fascist-Like list gathering by the Obama Administration. Fox News is reporting the Feds want to change the rules to allow so-called “cookies” (tracking website usage) on federal websites. The cookies would allow the government to know if you logged on to “check out the FBI’s Most Wanted List…If you want information from the CDC about pregnancy or AIDS, the government would know. Big Brother could quite literally be watching you” Without explaining this reversal of policy, the OMB is seeking to allow the mass collection of personal information of every user of a federal government website,” Michael Macleod-Ball, acting director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Washington Legislative office, said in a statement. “Until OMB answers the multitude of questions surrounding this policy shift, we will continue to raise our strenuous objections.” — The change would mean when you log on to a federal government website, the “cookie” software would remember your “IP address” (an address specifically linked to your computer) and would track and record what you did when you visited. With a little bit of knowledge, people can use an IP address to find out the real street address of the computer and the name of the person who owns the property at that address. This would open the door to government spying big-time. Obama is Big Brother! Obama is not only unworried about his first enemies list, he is starting a second!! How come it was bad when Bush “spied on Americans” by listening to the phone calls of a few Americans calling Terrorists, but it’s fine when the Socialist-Democrat Obama wants to Spy on Americans and monitor your every move at government websites? Where is Socialist-Democrat Russ Feingold of Wisconsin? Is he upset about this? He certainly was in front of the charge against Bush. He should likewise lead the charge against Obama on this one. Otherwise, it is blazing hypocrisy! More from Fox: “Judge Andrew Napolitano, FOX News’ senior judicial analyst, said the potential policy change could be a violation of the Privacy Act of 1974, which regulates the “collection, maintenance, use and dissemination” of personal information by federal executive branch agencies. “It also prohibits the government from watching you while you browse a book in a library or getting copies of the books you take out of a library,” Napolitano told FOX News. “What is the Internet? It’s a modern day library. It’s the gateway to knowledge. Just as the government can’t be over your shoulder with a camera when you’re browsing for books in the library, the government cannot watch you as your browse through a Web site or browse the Internet. It’s equally as prohibited by the Privacy Act.” OMB officials told FOXNews.com that any change to the federal cookie policy would be in “full compliance” with the Privacy Act, and they said no decisions have been made as to when — if at all — the change will take effect. UPDATE 9/16/9: PrisonPlanet.com reports: “If you’re a user of twitter, facebook, myspace, youtube or flickr, and you visit the White House page at any of the sites, you are at risk of having your personal data archived without your consent or knowledge. The Obama White House has sought a private contractor to “crawl and archive” data such as comments, tag lines, e-mail, audio and video from any place where the White House “maintains a presence” – for a period of up to eight years…The NLPC argues that Presidential Records Act does not apply because any comments are pasted onto a third-party Web page and do not constitute official correspondence with the president. The watchdog group also points out that the program is suspicious because it is shrouded in secrecy and the public cost is being withheld…Recent disclosures under the Freedom Of Information Act also reveal that the federal government has several contracts with social media outlets such as Youtube (Google), Facebook, Myspace and Flickr (Yahoo) that waive rules on monitoring users and permit companies to track visitors to government web sites for advertising purposes.
610. Little Girl at Obama Town Hall comes from family of Obama Supporters! 8/12/9 Nothing staged at the Obama Town Hall? Just a coincidence the whole audience loved him? The Boston Globe: “Eleven-year-old Julia Hall asked: “How do kids know what is true, and why do people want a new system that can — that help more of us?”…Julia’s mother was an early Obama supporter and donor in Massachusetts during the presidential election, so she had previously met First Lady Michelle Obama, the Obama daughters Sasha and Malia, and Vice President Joe Biden. “This was my first time meeting Barack Obama, and he’s a very nice man,” Julia said.” — You don’t meet those people with out connections.
611. Hillary Not so Diplomatic Again 8/13/9- ABCDEmocrat News:
     

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     “Hillary Clinton may be the United States’ top diplomat, but some are accusing the Secretary of State for undiplomatic behavior abroad. For the second time this week, the former first lady is embroiled in a controversy over remarks she made in Africa. At a town hall in Abuja, Nigeria, a land of corrupt elections, Clinton…caught people’s attention. “Our democracy is still evolving. You know we’ve had all kinds of problems in some of our past elections as you might remember. In 2000, our presidential election came down to one state where the brother of the man running for president was the governor of the state, so we have our problems, too.”
612. Obama Stimulus Oversight Not living up to Expectations… 8/13/9 - MicroSoftNBC quotes President Obama: “”We’re going to set up an independent board made up of Democrats and Republicans to review how the money’s being spent, because we’ve got to make sure that it’s not being wasted on somebody’s special project that may not actually create help for people.” The oversight board is up and running,… But much of the money has been turned over to the states, which have broad discretion on how to spend it. More work needs to be done at the state level, according to a July report by the General Accountability Office.“Current guidance does not achieve the level of accountability needed to effective respond to the Recovery Act risks,” said the GAO.
613. Gibbs Can’t Explain How White House Got Email Addresses that were not Submitted! 8/13/9 Fox News Video…
     
     UPDATE 8/16/9: Fox News: White House blames third parties for the error: “”The White House e-mail list is made up of e-mail addresses obtained solely through the White House Web site. The White House doesn’t purchase, upload or merge from any other list, again, all e-mails come from the White House Web site as we have no interest in e-mailing anyone who does not want to receive an e-mail,” the statement said. “If an individual received the e-mail because someone else or a group signed them up or forwarded the e-mail, we hope they were not too inconvenienced.” UPDATE 8/17/9: Fox says: “There’s also the lingering concern that the Obama team…is somehow complicit in lumping together its official distribution lists with those of outside groups. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., wrote in a letter Monday to White House Counsel Greg Craig that he wants to obtain the “full truth” behind the e-mails. He said reports that people received the Axelrod e-mail without having contacted the White House raise concerns that “political e-mail address lists are being used for official purposes.”…But Scott Stanzel, former spokesman for President George W. Bush, said the White House, and not advocacy groups, are to blame. “The Obama White House developed their own Web site. They are in charge of Whitehouse.gov and what people do on there. They are responsible for monitoring that and they are responsible for making sure that people can’t misuse Whitehouse.gov,” he said. “On that point, they failed. From that respect, the explanation is not thorough and, in my view, places blame where it shouldn’t be. They should be looking in the mirror instead of pointing the finger at third parties.”
614. Tax Cheat Geithner Says Stimulus was Necessary “To Prevent Job Losses!!” 8/13/9 The RNC: “The stimulus plan,” [Geithner] said, “was necessary and critically important to reduce the risk that we‘d see hundreds of thousands losses of jobs and we‘d see million of job losses beyond this point and see thousands of more business fail unnecessarily.” (Anne Flaherty, Geithner Defends Stimulus, Calls For Derivatives Regulation, The Associated Press, 7/10/09) REALITY: CBO Said High Unemployment Will Not End Anytime Soon. “However, Douglas Elmendorf, the director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, was more cautious in his State of the Economy review to the House Budget Committee last week. “The economy will stop contracting and resume growing during the second half of this year,” he said, “but the hardships caused by the recession will persist for some time …‘ In addition, Elmendorf predicted, unemployment is expected to peak at 10.5 percent in the second half of next year.” (David Lightman, Stimulus Funds Being Spent Slowly,The Miami Herald, 8/13/09)
615. Christina Romer Still Claims Stimulus Money is Being Spent Quickly! 8/13/9 The RNC: “The money is absolutely going out the door quickly.” (Mark Silva, Stimulus Has Slowed U.S. Economic Decline, Obama Advisor Says, The Los Angeles Times, 8/6/09) REALITY: Brookings’ Institution Scholar Says Stimulus Funds Moving Too Slow. “It‘s just taken too long to get it going,‘ said Barry Bosworth, a senior fellow in Brookings‘ economic studies program. He said the program, a mixture of discretionary spending, tax cuts and state aid, did little to boost business investment.” (Joseph J. Schatz, Analysts Give Stimulus Mixed Review, Congressional Quarterly, 8/13/09)” — ConservativeAmerican.org notes: The Lefty Brookings Institution is where Obama Budget Director Peter Orszag was a blogger.
616. Obama Flip Flops on Health Insurance Companies Within a Single Hour! 8/14/9 At a town hall meeting today, President Obama said Americans are being held hostage by health insurance companies. From Fox: “Obama also said he isn’t trying to vilify the insurance companies, but rather stop their practices that hurt people.” — So he is vilifying the companies,…but not really?! Fox: “A distinction made in response to a question from an insurance salesman about the president’s change in terminology. Obama has switched from calling for “health reform” to “health insurance reform.” He’s also complained about insurance companies’ profits. The president says his intent was not to target all big companies. He said some, like Aetna, are working with the administration on overhaul. But he said others are spending money to oppose his efforts to remake the system.” — And as the White House has threatened before, those who go against it will pay dearly.UPDATE 9/9/9: During talk to Congress, Obama said the big evil insurance companies are killing people, like a man from Illinois he mentioned. He also flip flopped on them again saying, “I have no interest in putting insurance companies out of business!” UPDATE 10/12/9: Fox reports, “The White House and congressional Democrats, along with prominent supporters of their health care reform plans, fired back Monday at the insurance industry for issuing a study that claims the reform bill working its way toward a key vote Tuesday will raise the cost of individual coverage by hundreds of dollars a year…The accounting firm study projects the legislation would add $1,700 a year to the cost of family coverage in 2013, when most of the major provisions in the bill would be in effect.”


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617. Health Adviser to Obama Flip Flops on Rationing Care and Death Panels! - Palin was Right! 8/14/9 Washington Times: “Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, the White House official targeted by Sarah Palin…as an advocate for health care rationing and “death panels,” said…his “thinking has evolved” on the need to decide who gets treated and who does not. “When I began working in the health policy area about 20 years ago … I thought we would definitely have to ration care, that there was a need to make a decision and deny people care,” said Dr. Emanuel, a health care adviser to President Obama…”I think that over the last five to seven years … I’ve come to the conclusion that in our system we are spending way more money than we need to, a lot of it on unnecessary care,” he said. “If we got rid of that care we would have absolutely no reason to even consider rationing except in a few cases.” Dr. Emanuel, the elder brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.”
618. Obama Flips back on Flip Flop about Health Insurance Companies! 8/14/9 Will the real Obama please stand up?! First he tried to make health insurance companies the bad guys, then he told a town hall questioner on Friday that he was not trying to do that, now he is doing it again!!! Fox News: “President Obama took aim at the health insurance industry Sunday, using an op-ed to accuse the insurance companies of discriminating against millions…The op-ed in The New York Times escalated an approach…The president cited a “2007 national survey” which he said showed insurance companies “discriminated” against more than 12 million Americans over three years because of pre-existing conditions. “Almost everyone knows that we must start holding insurance companies accountable and give Americans a greater sense of stability and security when it comes to their health care.” — It’s all part of Team Obama’s effort to say the whole thing is only about insurance, not your health care! He needs to make America hate to get his ideas passed. Instead of hating congress and him, he wants you to hate big, bad, corporate-jet flying insurance company executives!
619. Obama - Health Care Debate is About Him After All! 8/14/9 As we point out in our scandal dated 7/22/9 (Obama Press Conference Lie # 14), the President claims the health care debate is “not about me.” Yet Today Fox News reports it was about Obama: “President Barack Obama has made it clear that his efforts to reform the U.S. health care system have meaning to him personally. On Saturday, Obama invoked his own anguish over the death of a loved one as he challenged the notion that Democratic efforts to overhaul the nation’s health care would include “death panels” that decided who would get care and who wouldn’t. “I just lost my grandmother last year. I know what it’s like to watch somebody you love, who’s aging, deteriorate and have to struggle with that,” an impassioned Obama told a crowd as he spoke of Madelyn Payne Dunham. He took issue with “the notion that somehow I ran for public office or members of Congress are in this so they can go around pulling the plug on grandma, when you start making arguments like that, that’s simply dishonest.” — Oh really? Obama was asked if his health care plan would take into consideration a person’s will to live. His answer was no! He said maybe grandma could just take a pill instead of having surgery! This was in the plan and the senate removed it. However, Obama continues to lie about it and make the argument about himself. Conservative American Jim DeMint says losing the health care reform battle could “break him.” Obama got mad and said it was not about him, but U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley told Fox News the president told a group of democrats, “You’re trying to destory my Presidency!” The hot-headed response came after the president learned a “large number” of centrist democrats are against his socialist healthcare plan. — BTW, Dunham is his white grandmother who gave birth to his white mother, making Obama only half-black. He’s not the first “black” anything.
620. Obama Appointment Scandal # 62 - Regina Benjamin - Burger King Surgeon General! 8/15/9 - NBC Washington reports: “President Barack Obama’s nominee for surgeon general has worked part-time for one of the corporations keeping the youth of America fat — and not from behind the counter. According to financial disclosures, Dr. Regina Benjamin has received $10,000 since last year to serve on a Burger King scientific advisory board, the Washington Times reported. The documents didn’t say on what issues Benjamin has advised the fast-food chain, but company officials said she served on a nutritional advisory panel “to promote balanced diets and active lifestyle choices,” the Times reported. You know, kind of like Big Tobacco funding cancer research — dead customers don’t pay.” UPDATE 10/8/9 Catholic News Agency: The White House says Dr. Benjamin supports the President on “reproductive health issues.” But, does she? She has been recognized as a leading Catholic doctor and a member of the Catholic Health Association, a group that is pro-life. “Dr. Benjamin, a rural Catholic doctor from Alabama, has served on the board of the Catholic Health Association. She has also received the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice award from the Pope because of her example in her Catholic faith and in her medical profession.” Dr. Benjamin has not said if she is pro-life or anti-family.
621. VP Biden says Stimulus has meant the “Return of Hope!” 8/17/9 From the RNC: “Moreover, Biden said, recovery is “more than just a compilation of statistics; it‘s the return of hope and optimism about the future that comes with making life better for communities and families across the country.” (David Lightman, “Stimulus Funds Being Spent Slowly, The Miami Herald, 5/28/09) -REALITY: No Hope Among Americans That Stimulus Is Helping To End Recession. “Six months after President Obama launched a $787 billion plan to right the nation‘s economy, a majority of Americans think the avalanche of new federal aid has cost too much and done too little to end the recession.” (Brad Heath, “Poll: 57% Don‘t See Stimulus Working,” USA Today, 8/17/09)
622. Obama Flips back on Flip Flop about “Public Option!” 8/18/9 During a July radio address, President Obama promised he would not sign a health bill without the “Public Option,” socialist, government-run health care. Then on Saturday, the Flip-Flopper-in-Chief said “…The public option, whether we have it or we don’t have it, is not the entirety of health care reform. This is just one sliver of it, one aspect of it.” - Today, the Associated Press reports Spinner Robert Gibbs
     

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     said, “that news stories suggesting that the administration was ready to abandon the public option as it battles to push health care reform through were overblown. The rash of reports began after Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius appeared to signal the president was open to health care cooperatives as an alternative. Gibbs said there was no intention to indicate a change in policy. He said, “If it was a signal, it was a dog whistle we started blowing weeks ago.” - - That’s as clear as mud! UPDATE 8/20/9: Fox News quotes Obama: “”We said that’s a good idea, but we haven’t said that’s the only one,” he said. The president added that the goal of health care reform remains the same. “Our position hasn’t changed,” he said. “We think the key is cost control, competition, making sure people have good quality options. If we achieve that, that’s the end we’re seeking…” — Position hasn’t changed??!! The real question is how many times has the position changed? He flips more often then we can note!
623. Hypocrite-in-Chief Obama Finances Offshore Drilling…in BRAZIL!!! 8/18/9 - Wall Street Journal: “The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil’s Tupi oil field…near Rio de Janeiro…White House National Security Adviser James Jones met this month with Brazilian officials to talk about the loan. The U.S. Export-Import Bank tells us it has issued a “preliminary commitment” letter to Petrobras in the amount of $2 billion and has discussed with Brazil the possibility of increasing that amount...this corporate foreign aid may strike some readers as odd, given that the U.S. Treasury seems desperate for cash and Petrobras is one of the largest corporations in the Americas. But look on the bright side. If President Obama has embraced offshore drilling in Brazil, why not in the old U.S.A.? The land of the sorta free and the home of the heavily indebted has enormous offshore oil deposits, and last year ahead of the November elections, with gasoline at $4 a gallon, Congress let a ban on offshore drilling expire…Late last month (a U.S.) court…open(ed) the way for the sale of (offshore drilling) leases in the Gulf….This is progress, however slow. But it still doesn’t allow the U.S. to explore in Alaska or along the East and West Coasts, which could be our equivalent of the Tupi oil fields…Americans are right to wonder why Mr. Obama is underwriting in Brazil what he won’t allow at home.”
624. Obama’s 2nd 100 Days Job Claim False 8/19/9 -From the RNC chairman Michael Steele: “Obama Said Over 600,000 Jobs Would Be Created In Second Hundred Days Of Stimulus. ?As a result of this accelerated pace of activity, over 600,000 jobs are expected to be created or saved by the Recovery Act in the second 100 days …(The White House, ?President Obama And Vice President Biden Announce Roadmap To Recovery, Press Release, 6/08/09) REALITY: During Second Hundred Days, Over 700,000 Jobs Have Been Lost. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, www.bls.gov, Accessed 8/19/09)
625. Obama Claims Stimulus Already Producing Results in Nevada! 8/19/9 - “One hundred days later, we are already seeing results,” President Barack Obama said during a visit to Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. (”Obama Upbeat, But Stimulus Cash Slow,” McClatchy, 8/19/09) REALITY: Nevada’s Stimulus Overseer Says Funds Going To State “Very Deficient.” “In Nevada, where President Barack Obama made a major speech touting the achievements of the stimulus plan, the state‘s share of stimulus money is “very deficient,” said Nevada‘s stimulus czar Mendy Elliott. “We are certainly grateful for the help that we received but the fact of the matter is there should have been some thoughtfulness.” Unemployment in the state stood at 11.3% last month.” (Louise Radnofsky, “Some Hard-Hit States Get Less Stimulus,” The Wall Street Journal, 7/1/09)
626. Obama Administration Blunder on Cash for Clunkers! 8/20/9 They can’t run the “cash for clunkers” program, but they want you to trust them with your health care? You’re kidding, right? Many dealers have stopped accepting clunkers because they haven’t been paid by the government! Democrat Congressman Joe Sestak says most of the forms Team Obama has received asking for reimbursement have been rejected on minor paperwork problems. Some dealers wonder if they will ever get paid!
627. Obama Hires Axelrod’s company to Run Ads for the ObamaCare Nightmare! 8/20/9 Talk about an inside job! Fox News says Team Obama has hired the company founded by White House Senior Astroturfist, David Axelrod, to do the ads for ObamaCare! Turns out the company owes Axelrod $2-million “and some Republican critics now question whether the firm was hired to indirectly fund his severance package!” — White House staffers getting rich from the Obama Administration…no conflict of interest there, eh?!
628. Obama Lies (AGAIN) About Reaching out to Republicans! 8/20/9 The Associated Press: “Obama told his audiences he is trying to reach across the aisle to craft a bipartisan plan, even as he blamed Republicans for delay. He peppered his DNC remarks with jokes and jabs at conservatives that had the partisan crowd breaking into applause and laughter. In response, a spokesman for the No. 2 Republican in the House said he had a question for Obama and his team. “We would love to know when, exactly — time, date, place — the president or his staff reached out to Republican leaders?” said Brad Dayspring, a spokesman for Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va. Republican leaders in May sent Obama a letter outlining the GOP’s principles and asking to collaborate. “And the president’s response?” Dayspring said. “Meeting? Nah. Work together? No thanks. Further discussion? Nope. Instead, they went with, ‘Thanks for the letter.’”
629. Obama Purposely Misleads Americans by Blaming Republicans for Delay in passing the ObamaCare Nightmare! 8/20/9 The Associated Press: “Obama told his audiences he is trying to reach across the aisle…even as he blamed Republicans for delay.” Blamed Republicans??Obama and his socialist-democrats can pass anything they want on any day of the week without a single republican vote. Republicans factually do not have the votes to delay anything Obama wants. It isn’t the republicans delaying ObamaCare, it is Democrats. The blame lies ONLY with them! Meanwhile ABCDEmocrat News quotes Service Employees International Union Prez Andy Stern on the idea of blaming republicans: “”I think if health care reform dies, the Democrat majority in Congress dies with it,” said Andy Stern, the president of the Service Employees International Union. “It’s hard to imagine the Democrats convincing the public that Republicans are to blame for health care reform going down when the Democrats have such large majorities. … After last year’s promise of change, voters will start feeling buyer’s remorse.”
630. Obama is “Fabricating” About Abortion Funding in the ObamaCare Nightmare! 8/21/9 CNS News reports: “President Barack Obama and Cardinal Justin Rigali, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Pro-Life Activities, have taken directly contradictory positions on whether the health-care bill in the U.S. Congress funds abortion. Cardinal Rigali says the bill does fund abortion and that those who say otherwise are pushing an “illusion.” President Obama says the bill does not fund abortion and that those who say otherwise are guilty of a “fabrication.” Who is right and who is wrong? Cardinal Rigali laid out his position in a carefully reasoned and detailed argument presented…to the U.S. House…Obama laid out his position in two terse sentences…on BlogTalkRadio yesterday…But even…the New York Times’ explanation, the basic fact is impossible to ignore: The bill mandates that everyone getting federal subsidies to buy health insurance must have an opportunity to buy health insurance that covers abortion. Reported the Times: “…it says, in every part of the country, the government must ensure that there is at least one plan that covers abortion and at least one that does not.” — So your taxpayer dollars will fund abortions. Obama is being dishonest to say otherwise. Thanks to Ric on our Facebook page for this tip! UPDATE 9/9/9: Obama repeats the lie to Congress promising there won’t be money used to pay for abortions in “his” health care plan. UPDATE 9/30/9: Senate Democrats block any attempt to prevent ObamaCare from covering abortions. Doesn’t match with Obama’s lofty promise to congress!
631. Obama Appointment Scandal # 63 - Mark Lloyd, Radio Czar 8/21/9 USA Insight calls Mark Lloyd the new Obama “Radio Czar.” CNS News reports Lloyd has some bizarre ideas: “Lloyd, newly appointed Chief Diversity Officer of the Federal Communications Commission, has called for making private broadcasting companies pay licensing fees equal to their total operating costs to allow public broadcasting outlets to spend the same on their operations as the private companies do. Lloyd presented the idea in his 2006 book, Prologue to a Farce: Communications and Democracy in America, published by the University of Illinois Press…Lloyd wrote Prologue to a Farce while a senior fellow at the liberal Center for American Progress. In that capacity, he co-authored the 2007 report The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio, which concluded that 91% of talk radio programming is conservative and 9% is “progressive.” — ConservativeAmerican.org: Make no mistake, this has nothing to do with diversity. It is all about giving democrats control of radio. UPDATE 9/18/9: Lloyd is listed on the Sean Hannity TV special, “The President’s Top Ten.”
632. Obama Deals with the “Devil” - Big Pharma! Liberals call him Fascist! 8/21/9 From Hot Air, Redstate, and Naked Emporer News …
     
     Air America Liberal Radio calls Obama a Fascist! Amazing. They’re mad about his deal with Billy Tauzin and big pharma! Obama campaigned on the promise he would not have back room deals with Tauzin and any meetings with people like him would be on C-SPAN. He did make a back room deal with Tauzin and the meetings were not on C-SPAN! Interesting to note HOT AIR called us “turds” for saying Fascist in discussing Obama and now even HOT AIR writes about it! I guess they are “turds” too? To learn more about Fascism click here.
633. Don’t Like ObamaCare? Well, YOU ARE PAYING to Promote It! 8/22/9 A Fox News Exclusive report indicates Team Obama is spending your tax dollars to push its own political agenda to nationalize health care! From Fox: “”This is yet another ominous chapter in the administration’s rabid campaign to jam its radical health care scheme onto an unwilling public by any means necessary,” Rep. Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan said in a statement…The White House hired a private communications company based in Minnesota to distribute mass e-mails, helping to shed light on how some recipients received e-mails in support of President Obama’s health care plan without signing up for them, FOX News has learned. The company, Govdelivery,…says its e-mail service provides a fully-automated on-demand public communication system. It is still unknown how much taxpayer money the White House provides to Govdelivery for its services.” — This is a huge scandal and a disgusting use of taxpayer dollars. Since when can a President use our tax dollars to further a political agenda?
634. Non-Secretary Daschle Playing Both Sides of Socialist Health Care Debate! 8/23/9 The New York Times: “Six months have passed since the morning Tom Daschle, the former Senate Democratic leader, under fire for not paying certain taxes, called President Obama to withdraw his nomination as health secretary and overhaul czar. But these days it often seems as if Daschle never left the picture. With unrivaled ties on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, Daschle talks constantly with top White House advisers, many of whom previously worked for him. He speaks frequently to the president, who met with him as recently as Friday in the Oval Office. He also remains a highly paid policy adviser to hospital, drug, pharmaceutical and other health-care-industry clients of Alston & Bird, the law and lobbying firm.” — So much for Obama not having lobbyists on his team, promising transparency, and on and on and on…Tom Daschle and Barack Obama are part of the Democrat Culture of Corruption.
635. Liberal Media Turning on Obama! - Obama Appointment Scandal # 64 - Pete Rouse (& Obama Tax Cheat Scandal # 10!) 8/23/9 You know President Obama is having big problems when the NY Times blasts him for using Tom Daschle as a “Non-Secretary” of Health and the H.R. Huff-n-Stuff Huffington Post blasts one of his top advisors! Lee Stranahan from Huffington Post: “While it appears that Rouse may have been voting legally according to Alaskan election law, his voting status creates a conflict with his claim of a homestead deduction on his Washington D.C. residence. In an email today from the Homestead Unit of the Office of Tax and Revenue, Joseph Culligan was told…’Upon review of Mr. Peter M. Rouse’s case, he has not completely severed all ties to another state by voting outside of D.C.; therefore, we are reversing his homestead deduction and sending him a corrected bill.’…Pete Rouse is listed as one of three Senior Advisors to President Obama and previously served as a top staffer to Tom Daschle for twenty years.” — So Rouse is voting in Alaska but telling D.C. he lives there to get the tax deduction on his house. If that is true, we call it cheating on your taxes! Turns out Obama was right about changing how Washington does business…he’s made the Democrat Culture of Corruption even worse!
636. Obama’s CIA Director Threatens to Quit over Political Move to Prosecute Bush CIA Interrogators! - 8/24/9 ABCDEmocrat News: “A “profanity-laced screaming match” at the White House involving CIA Director Leon Panetta, and the…release today of another damning internal investigation, has administration officials worrying about the direction of its newly-appoint(ed) intelligence team, current and former senior intelligence officials tell ABC News.com. Amid reports that Panetta had threatened to quit just seven months after taking over at the spy agency, other insiders tell ABCNews.com that senior White House staff members are already discussing a possible shake-up of top national security officials. “You can expect a larger than normal turnover in the next year,” a senior adviser to Obama on intelligence matters told ABCNews.com.” — ConservativeAmerican.org: The larger than normal turnover will come because people are starting to realize that the President is dishonest and a socialist.
637. Obama’s Lie About Abortion Funding in Government-run Health Care 8/24/9 - From HyScience.com: “So much for Obama’s desperate and cynical conference call to religious leaders August 19 where he accused his opponents of “bearing false witness” and of “divisive and deceptive attacks.”…even the Obama-loving AP points out there is no wiggle room in the legislation:”Since abortion is a legal medical procedure, experts on both sides say not mentioning it would allow health care plans in the new insurance exchange to provide unrestricted coverage.” –ConservativeAmerican.org says: Make no mistake, it’s in there! This President even lies to religious leaders!
638. Obama on Vacation while 57% of Key Administration Positions not even Filled Yet! - 8/25/9 Fox News and the New York Times report: “the president is still missing…an assistant treasury secretary for financial markets; a director for the Agency for International Development…The slow movement could be a reflection of the trouble Obama had earlier in the year confirming a number of top agency officials. Problems over taxes and other issues derailed some of those nominations.” — ConservativeAmerican.org says: With 61 (so far) appointment scandals featured on our Obama Administration Scandals List, it’s no wonder Obama is having a hard time filling key posts. After appointing his second tax-cheater, he promised to “make sure we’re not screwing up again” (Scandal # 84).” Since then, he has appointed seven additional tax-cheaters!
639. Commander Obama Fights 2 Wars Without a Secretary of the Army! - 8/25/9 Fox News and the New York Times report: “the president is still missing an assistant treasury secretary for financial markets; a director for the Agency for International Development; and even his Army secretary. He also has not yet filled several top national security posts.”
640. Team Obama wants to Prosecute CIA Interrogators while at the Same Time Setting a Terrorist Free and Giving Him a Trip home to His Family! - 8/25/9 - From Fox News & Reuters: “the administration released Mohammed Jawad to his home in Afghanistan. Jawad had been accused of throwing a grenade in 2002 that injured two U.S. soldiers and their interpreter in Kabul. He has returned to his family, according to his lawyer. Kirk Lippold, former USS Cole commander and fellow at Military Families United, criticized the decision in a statement Monday, calling it part of a “sadly familiar pattern.” “No coherent policy in the war on terror. No comprehensive plan in place to deal with the future of Guantanamo Bay detainees. No accountability for terrorists who harm our brave fighting forces,” he said.” - UPDATE 9/1/9: Fox News quotes former VP Dick Cheney: “It’s an outrageous political act that will do great damage, long-term, to our capacity to be able to have people take on difficult jobs, make difficult decisions, without having to worry about what the next administration is going to say.”
641. Obama’s Bernanke Distraction 8/25/9 John Carney at the Business Insider: “It was only yesterday when President Barack Obama sent his spokesguy to inform the Air Force One press pool that they should relax and assured them that “nobody’s looking to make any news.” Then, as Mediaite’s Glynnis MacNicol points out, Obama goes ahead and interrupts his Martha’s Vineyard vacation by holding a press conference to announce that he will be reappointing Ben Bernanke as Fed chairman. There are at least five months before Obama had to make this decision, making this timing very suspicious.” — ConservativeAmerican.org’s take: Provides a nice distraction from Obama’s slipping poll numbers, failing health care takeover and underwhelming economic news.
642. Obama Changing 9/11 Day of Remembrance into Democrat Holiday! - 8/26/9 Just 8 years after 9/11 and the leader of the nation is ready to “change” the way we honor the victims and remember the event. The American Spectator: “The Obama White House is behind a cynical, coldly calculated political effort to erase the meaning of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks from the American psyche and convert Sept. 11 into a day of leftist celebration and statist idolatry…into a celebration of ethanol, carbon emission controls, and radical community organizing…The plan is to turn a “day of fear” that helps Republicans into a day of activism called the National Day of Service that helps the left…They’re taking that day and they’re breaking it because it gives Republicans an advantage. To them, that day is a fearful day.”
643. Team Obama Promotes Infighting and Distrust Among Intelligence Agencies! 8/26/9 - They’re supposed to keep us safe. Yet there is reportedly more infighting and distrust among federal intelligence agencies in the Obama Administration. Wall Street Journal: “The Justice Department’s decision to investigate CIA interrogation practices increased tension between the agencies and prompted a sense of betrayal among some CIA officers, current and former officials said.Rivalries had raged since the early days of the Central Intelligence Agency’s World War II-era forerunner, the Office of Strategic Services, and the trust built in the wake of the 9/11 attacks could be shattered by the investigation, these people said. Many CIA officers were stunned by Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to launch a probe. Some were deeply angered by what they consider a selective declassification of documents describing the acts at issue, former agency officials said Tuesday. Of particular concern to some: their agency’s decision not to release a rebuttal of a 2004 CIA inspector-general report criticizing the agency’s conduct in interrogations along with the report, which was made public Monday in response to a lawsuit.” The employees that were involved wrote a joint rebuttal and they believe it was ignored deliberately by [Justice] for political reasons,” said one former CIA official.”
644. Obama Fundraiser Arrested! 8/26/9 - Fox News: “A wealthy investment banker and prominent fundraiser for President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other top Democrats was arrested Tuesday on charges he lied to get a $74 million business loan that — once confronted by authorities– he hastily repaid. Prosecutors accused Hassan Nemazee of giving Citibank documents showing he owned millions of dollars in collateral. They said the documents were fraudulent and forged.” -ConservativeAmerican.org’s take: another example of Obama’s incredibly poor judgement of character.
645. Obama Gives Stimulus Money to Prison Inmates! 8/26/9 - Fox News: “The federal government mistakenly sent out stimulus checks to 1,700 inmates, the Social Security Administration said Tuesday — a $425,000 error. Social Security spokesman Dan Moraski told FOXNews.com in a written statement that the money went out because official records “did not accurately reflect that they were in prison.” The inspector general’s office for the Social Security Administration is now looking into the problem as part of its broader audit on stimulus spending. “
646. ObamaCare Nightmare Might Be Unconstitutional!! 8/26/9 - The feds don’t have the Constitutional power to force Americans to buy anything, including health insurance. From Bill O’Reilly’s 8/25/9 Talking Points Memo: “President Obama is taking a week off on Martha’s Vineyard with his family. The president will rest and recharge, and he needs it. The health care chaos has damaged the president’s credibility and job approval ratings, and there is another significant problem coming down the road - forcing Americans to buy health insurance may be unconstitutional. According to a number of scholars, the feds can’t force us to buy anything, which is just another annoying thing for the president to consider. Talking Points hopes the president understands that not all of those who oppose his policies are doing so for nefarious reasons. Yes, there are some who despise the president, but most of us want what’s best for America, and bankrupting the nation certainly does not fit that mindset. Finally, the president must know that his health care vision is in serious trouble. Blaming dissenters and news agencies like Fox is hurting the president.” — ConservativeAmerican.org’s take: Obama has always felt the U.S. Constitution is in his way.
647. Team Obama Uses Kennedy Death to Promote Socialist Healthcare 8/27/9 - Fox News says John Kerry spoke of it at Kennedy’s memorial: “Anyone addressing the health care bill at the (memorial) service would tread a fine line between taste and politics, especially since conservative commentators have already objected to proposals to name the measure The Kennedy Bill. “He labored with all his might to make health care a right for all America, and we will do that in his honor,” said Sen. John Kerry, his Democratic colleague from Massachusetts for decades.” — Politico: “”Placing [Kennedy’s] name on a health-care bill, in memoriam, or using his name as a sympathy ploy to advance a health care bill that would deny Americans the choices Sen. Kennedy had is an insult and is supreme hypocrisy,” the talk show host Rush Limbaugh said…(Sean Hannity said) “we’re now being implored to get behind Obamacare because it’s what Ted Kennedy would have wanted”…Bill Hillsman, an independent political consultant…”I don’t think Ted Kennedy’s memorial is going to be a cheerleading session for health care.”UPDATE 9/2/9:Fox News: “I think it’s going to help us,” the Nevada Democrat (Harry Reid) told the Reno Gazette-Journal. UPDATE 9/3/9: Fox notes John Freakin’ Kerry also plans to use the Kennedy death to his advantage: “Kerry quickly invoked Kennedy’s memory and promised to push for the best health care reform package possible.”That means taking on these battles in the way that Teddy would and I pledge to you that I will,” he said.
648. Team Obama Kills Investigation into Obama Friend! 8/27/9 -Fox News: “The decision not to pursue indictments (against Gov. Bill Richardson) was made by top Justice Department officials, according to a person familiar with the investigation, who asked not to be identified because federal officials had not disclosed results of the probe.”It’s over. There’s nothing. It was killed in Washington,” the person told The Associated Press.A federal grand jury began an investigation in 2008 into a possible pay-to-play scheme in which lucrative work on state bond deals went to a Richardson donor.”
649. Obama’s Broken Promise on Reporting Lobbyists 8/31/9 - 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…In August, the entire government reported only eight such lobbying contacts. The Pentagon, which controls about $7.4 billion in stimulus spending, reported just one lobbying contact so far this year. The Homeland Security Department, with at least $3 billion to spend, reported none.” UPDATE 9/5/9: The Beachwood reporter also notes: “We decided to track this promise with a clock - so far it’s at 94 days and counting - and there is no sign it will be stopping any time soon. As we noted in May, though more than 800 lobbyists had registered to lobby on stimulus issues, only a handful actually appeared in lobbying disclosures on agency Web sites. Instead, lobbying firms were sending junior employees who were not registered lobbyists, or arranging direct meetings between government officials and clients.”
650. Obama’s Broken Promise on “Shipping Away Prisoners in the Dead of Night!”- The Raymond Azar Story 8/31/9 - Columnist Leonard Pitts at the Niles Daily Star reports on this latest instance of Obama being just a 3rd Bush term! “in April, the U.S. government snatched Raymond Azar out of Afghanistan. His waist, wrists and ankles were shackled, he was stripped naked and photographed, made to wear headphones, blindfolded, hooded and stuffed into an executive jet and flown to the United States. Azar says his eyeglasses were taken and he was left in an ice-cold room, denied food for 30 hours and told he might never see his wife and children again. The FBI agent who was in charge denies that last accusation. And a representative for the Justice Department says Azar was kept in a comfortable chair in a comfortable room and offered blankets, food and water. As near as I can determine, Azar’s other claims are undisputed…Was he part of a terror cell plotting to attack some American landmark? Actually, Azar’s crime was that he padded invoices and paid kickbacks. According to published reports, Raymond Azar is a Lebanese man who worked for a Lebanese construction company with a multimillion-dollar Pentagon contract to do reconstruction work in Afghanistan. Recently, Azar pleaded guilty to paying an Army Corp of Engineers officer in exchange for the officer’s approval of the inflated bills. He faces as much as five years behind bars. Serious stuff, to be sure. But serious enough for hoods, blindfolds and shackles? Color me skeptical. The whole thing carries a thorny echo of the “extraordinary renditions” that flourished under President George W. Bush, when a supposed terrorist would be grabbed up, shackled, hooded and shipped off to some Middle Eastern dungeon where interrogators were happy to torture him into saying whatever needed to be said. Many Americans were appalled by that contravention of the nation’s values, among them a presidential candidate named Barack Obama who promised an end to “the practice of shipping away prisoners in the dead of night to be tortured in far-off countries.” If that promise was not broken by Azar’s experience, it sure was dented. Meaning that,… it was close enough to give pause, especially considering the nature of Azar’s crime. His “weapon” was a “ledger,” for criminy sake! For that it was necessary to treat him like the love child of Osama bin Laden and Hannibal Lecter?” — ConservativeAmerican.org: It’s also another example of the MSM’s double standard. Hats off to Pitts on this one. Maybe Eric Holder will have to investigate the Obama Interrogators on this one!

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