BROKEN PROMISE: OBAMA’S LOBBYISTS

OBAMA REALIZES EMPTY SLOGANS ARE EASY – REALITY IS HARD. Despite promising no lobbyists for his administration, Obama is hiring many lobbyists. Obama team says eliminating all lobbyists would be FOOLISH.  Why?  Because “lobbyists are often the most informed people on a given issue”, tells us the CNN reporter (in a subliminal defense for Obama’s betrayal.)  Welcome to reality, gullible voters! LOBBYISTS: Obama’s long list of lobbyists CNN reports: Obama said lobbyists’ “days of setting the agenda are over”, but newspapers report Obama team is loaded with ex-lobbyists…that’s not the promise Obama made. video source: CNN: Obama’s Lobbyists another video: CNN: Obama’s Hypocrisy Is Showing

POLITICO reports: Obama’s lobbyists: ● Eric Holder, attorney general nominee, was registered to lobby until 2004 on behalf of clients including Global Crossing, a bankrupt telecommunications firm. ● Tom Vilsack, secretary of agriculture nominee, was registered to lobby as recently as last year on behalf of the National Education Association. ● William Lynn, deputy defense secretary nominee, was registered to lobby as recently as last year for defense contractor Raytheon, where he was a top executive. ● William Corr, deputy health and human services secretary nominee, was registered to lobby until last year for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a non-profit that pushes to limit tobacco use. ● David Hayes, deputy interior secretary nominee, was registered to lobby until 2006 for clients, including the regional utility San Diego Gas & Electric. ● Mark Patterson, chief of staff to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, was registered to lobby as recently as last year for financial giant Goldman Sachs. ● Ron Klain, chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, was registered to lobby until 2005 for clients, including the Coalition for Asbestos Resolution, U.S. Airways, Airborne Express and drug-maker ImClone. ● Mona Sutphen, deputy White House chief of staff, was registered to lobby for clients, including Angliss International in 2003. ● Melody Barnes, domestic policy council director, lobbied in 2003 and 2004 for liberal advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the American Constitution Society and the Center for Reproductive Rights. ● Cecilia Munoz, White House director of intergovernmental affairs, was a lobbyist as recently as last year for the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group. ● Patrick Gaspard, White House political affairs director, was a lobbyist for the Service Employees International Union. ● Michael Strautmanis, chief of staff to the president’s assistant for intergovernmental relations, lobbied for the American Association of Justice from 2001 until 2005. OBAMA FAILS THE TRANSPARENCY TEST So much for transparency THEY BELIEVED OBAMA’S BLUFF Obama said it, and the mainstream media believed it and then reported it…and then the voters believe it!! Obama promised lobbyists “won’t find a job in my White House” NYTimes:  Here is the New York Times 1/21/2009 report on Obama’s First Day as President: “The new president also moved to fulfill his campaign pledge to end the so-called revolving door, the longstanding Washington practice whereby White House officials depart for the private sector and cash in on their connections by lobbying former colleagues. In what ethics-in-government advocates described as a particularly far-reaching move, Mr. Obama barred officials of his administration from lobbying their former colleagues “for as long as I am president.” He barred former lobbyists from working for agencies they had lobbied within the past two years and required them to recuse themselves from issues they had handled during that time. “ THEY IGNORED THE FACTS  During the campaign we knew about Obama’s frauds, lobbyists, bundlers, etc. Obama receiving donations from lobbyists, bundlers, hedge fund managers…even from illegal donors Obama’s lobbyist problem: David Axelrod More on Obama’s hypocrisy regarding lobbyists ABC reporter arrested for investigating Democrat Lobbyists Biden’s son is a Lobbyist?   SOURCES Obama finds room for lobbyists More Lobbyists in Obama’s government! SEMANTICS: Lobbyists = activists, interest groups, community organizers NOTES TO PONDER: Why liberals demonize Republicans with connections to lobbyists, interest groups, rich people, etc.? Their mantra: “Republican is the party of the rich.” Can liberals distinguish between theory and reality? It’s nice to say ‘no lobbyists’. But that is not reality as Obama said during the campaign: Liberals love demagogues – that’s why they believed Obama.  Obama was bluffing.  It’s easy to be haughty when you are lying.  Welcome to Obama’s ethics: none.

COJONES back in GOP. Thank you!

COJONES BACK IN GOP. THANK YOU!
BRIBE BILL PASSES THE HOUSE. OBAMA GETS A PARTISAN VOTE.
All Republicans & 11 Democrats voted in a bi-partisan way….AGAINST IT!

HOUSE BILL INFO H.R.1
Status 1/28/09:–Passes the House, 244-188 (with 1 not voting)
Short Name:—–American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Nickname:——-“Stimulus”, Generational Theft Act of 2009, Porkulus, Bribe Bill
Official Title:—-Making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment,
————————-energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for fiscal year
——————————— ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.

REPUBLICANS WHO VOTED ‘NO’:
Contact them to say thank you: (202) 224-3121 or email:
Robert Aderholt, Todd Akin, Rodney Alexander, Steve Austria, Michele Bachmann, Spencer Bachus, J. Gresham Barrett, Roscoe Bartlett, Joe Barton, Judith Biggert, Brian Bilbray, Gus Bilirakis, Rob Bishop, Marsha Blackburn, Roy Blunt, John Boehner, Jo Bonner, Mary Bono, John Boozman, Charles Boustany, Kevin Brady, Paul Broun, Henry Brown, Vern Buchanan, Michael Burgess, Dan Burton, Steve Buyer, Ken Calvert, Dave Camp, John Campbell, Eric Cantor, Anh Cao, Shelley Moore Capito, John Carter, Bill Cassidy, Michael Castle, Jason Chaffetz, Howard Coble, Michael Coffman, Tom Cole, Michael Conaway, Ander Crenshaw, John Culberson, Geoff Davis, Nathan Deal, Charles Dent, Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Mario Diaz-Balart, David Dreier, John ‘Jimmy’ Duncan, Vernon Ehlers, Jo Ann Emerson, Mary Fallin, Jeff Flake, John Fleming, Randy Forbes, Jeff Fortenberry, Virginia Foxx, Trent Franks, Rodney Frelinghuysen, Elton Gallegly, Scott Garrett, Jim Gerlach, Phil Gingrey, Louie Gohmert, Bob Goodlatte, Kay Granger, Sam Graves, Brett Guthrie, Ralph Hall, Gregg Harper, Doc Hastings, Dean Heller, Jeb Hensarling, Wally Herger, Peter Hoekstra, Duncan Hunter, Bob Inglis, Darrell Issa, Lynn Jenkins, Sam Johnson, Tim Johnson, Walter Jones, Jim Jordan, Peter King, Steve King, Jack Kingston, Mark Kirk, John Kline, Steven LaTourette, Doug Lamborn, Leonard Lance, Tom Latham, Robert Latta, Christopher Lee, Jerry Lewis, John Linder, Frank LoBiondo, Frank Lucas, Blaine Luetkemeyer, Cynthia Lummis, Daniel Lungren, Connie Mack, Donald Manzullo, Kenny Marchant, Kevin McCarthy, Michael McCaul, Tom McClintock, Thad McCotter, Patrick McHenry, John McHugh, Buck McKeon, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, John Mica, Gary Miller, Candice Miller, Jeff Miller, Jerry Moran, Tim Murphy, Sue Myrick, Randy Neugebauer, Devin Nunes, Pete Olson, Ron Paul, Erik Paulsen, Mike Pence, Thomas Petri, Joe Pitts, Todd Platts, Ted Poe, Bill Posey, Tom Price, Adam Putnam, George Radanovich, Dennis Rehberg, David Reichert, Phil Roe, Mike Rogers, Hal Rogers, Mike Rogers, Dana Rohrabacher, Thomas Rooney, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Peter Roskam, Edward Royce, Paul Ryan, Steve Scalise, Jean Schmidt, Aaron Schock, Jim Sensenbrenner, Pete Sessions, John Shadegg, John Shimkus, Bill Shuster, Michael Simpson, Lamar Smith, Christopher Smith, Adrian Smith, Mark Souder, Cliff Stearns, John Sullivan, Lee Terry, Glenn Thompson, Mac Thornberry, Todd Tiahrt, Pat Tiberi, Michael Turner, Fred Upton, Greg Walden, Zachary Wamp, Lynn Westmoreland, Ed Whitfield, Joe Wilson, Robert Wittman, Frank Wolf, Bill Young, Don Young Ginny Brown-Waite

AMERICANS THANK GOP:
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SOURCES:
Roll Call Vote on H.R. 1
Washington Post Database
Today was good day for conservatism
All Republicans vote no

BRIBE $850 Billion Bill

SENATORS ON SALE
Republicans reaching a comprimise (2/06/2009):
Collins call her (202) 224-2523
Snowe call her (202) 224-5344
Specter call him (202) 224-4254

Send email and contact other senators as well: contact info.
(H/t: MichelleMalkin.com)

STIMULUS=SPENDING?
OBAMA NEEDS A DICTIONARY (2/5/2009)
The root of the problem with this “Stimulus” bill is that Obama thinks that stimulus equals spending. Ah?
How much money will government spend if they issue tax cuts for businesses and consumers!!!!!

Here is the “illuminated” Obama (go to minute 7:30)

 

 

Can someone give a dictionary to Obama? And not a marxist dictionary, pleeeasssee!
PS: Did you notice Obama’s derisive & contemptuous attitude towards the opposition.
Didn’t he promise bi-partisanship, humility, new era of politics? 

Is Obama turning into Howard Dean?

 

OBAMA, TRILLION-DOLLAR MAN (for now)
STIMULUS (BRIBE) PACKAGE BEING RAMMED BY OBAMA

The new $825 Billion proposal (plus $346 Billion in interest) includes:
More waste:
● $21 million for sod
● $200 million for the National Mall
● $600 million for new cars for the federal government
● $650 million for digital TV coupons
● $6 billion for colleges/universities (many which have billion dollar endowments)
● $50 million in funding for the National Endowment of the Arts
● $44 million for repairs to U.S. Dept. of Agriculture headquarters
● billions of taxpayer dollars to left-wing groups like ACORN
● funding for contraceptives and the abortion industry
–(eugenics-lover Democrat Nancy Pelosi said “contraception will reduce costs to the states and
–to the federal government.”)
● $75 million for smoking cessation
More lies:
● only 3% (or $30 billion) of the bill is for road and highway spending
● only 2.7 percent (or $22.3 billion) of the overall package, is for to small business tax relief (smal businesses are the main job providers in the nation)
More fallacies:
● Highway Spending: The Myth of the 47,576 New Jobs
“….before the government can spend $1 billion hiring road builders and pur­chasing asphalt, it must first tax or borrow $1 bil­lion from other sectors of the economy—which would then lose a similar number of jobs. In other words, highway spending merely transfers jobs and income from one part of the economy to another.” indicates Heritage
Bills text here:
ReadTheStimulus.org
Searchable text version of Senate & House Bribe Packages

WE CAN’T AFFORD OBAMA:
What the Stimulus Will Cost Working Families

 

To finance the $825 billion “stimulus” (bribe) package, it will take:

 
ONE YEAR budget for food, clothing, housing and health care of EVERY FAMILY will be needed
by either taxing it from future generations or borrowing even more funds.

- every family in the United States would be lending the federal government $10,520,

- or each family with children under the age of 18 would lend $22,445.

 

This money is being borrowed, meaning it will have to be repaid

 
(Hat tip: “Stimulus” you can’t afford, The Foundry)
 

 

 

 

 

GOVERNMENT SPENDING DOES NOT STIMULATE
Why Government Spending Does Not Stimulate Economic Growth
Most government spending has historically reduced productivity and long-term economic growth due to:
1. Taxes. Most government spending is financed by taxes, and high tax rates reduce incentives to work, save, and invest—resulting in a less motivated workforce as well as less business investment in new capital and technology.
2. Incentives. Social spending often reduces in­centives for productivity by subsidizing leisure and unemployment.
3. Displacement. Every dollar spent by politicians means one dollar less to be allocated based on market forces within the more productive pri­vate sector….politicians seize that money and earmark it for favored organizations with little regard for improve­ments to economic efficiency;
4. Inefficiencies. Government provision of housing, education, and postal operations are often much less efficient than the private sector. Government also distorts existing health care and education markets by promoting third-party payers, resulting in over-consumption and insensitivity to prices and outcomes. Another example of inefficiency is when politicians earmark highway money for wasteful pork projects rather than expanding highway capacity where it is most needed.

HISTORY: NEW DEAL = RAW DEAL

source: Heritage, report

HISTORY: TAX CUTS STIMULATE
Why Tax Rate Reductions Are More Stimulative Than Rebates: Lessons from 2001 and 2003

source: report

NOT A CONSENSUS, MR. OBAMA
200 Economists oppose Obama’s Bribe Proposal
More Economists comments in opposition
More analysis against the “Stimulus”

SOLUTIONS
● Heritage
○ Instead of creating higher taxes for families by increasing government spending, policymakers should instead consider extending or making permanent the 2001 and 2003 tax reductions and should reduce individual, small business, and corporate taxes.
○ Extending these tax cuts and further reducing taxes would stimulate job production and increase gross domestic product, thereby improving our economy and shortening the length of the recession.
● The Obama-Limbaugh Bipartisan Stimulus Plan of 2009
Proposed by Rush Limbaugh: “…54% voted for President Obama and 46% voted for Senator McCain. As a way to bring the country together and at the same time determine the most effective way to deal with recessions, under the Obama-Limbaugh Stimulus Plan of 2009, $540 billion of the one trillion will be spent on infrastructure as defined by President Obama and the Democrats. The remaining $460 billion, or 46% that voted for Senator McCain, will be directed towards tax cuts, as determined by me. These tax cuts will consist primarily of capital gains tax cuts and corporate tax rate cuts. …Then we see which stimulus actually works and works the fastest…”

SEMANTICS
Call it stimulus, rescue, bailout…is all the same….BRIBE.

Geithner’s Rap Sheet

TIMOTHY F. GEITHNER – TREASURY SECRETARY
THE MASK BEHIND THE FAILED BAILOUTS, TAX EVASIONS, DROP OF THE DOLLAR, ETC.

 

 

NYT: Geithner, Bernanke, Treasury testified about Bear Stearns

  Geithner’s Six Degrees: Portfolio.com

 

 KING OF THE BAILOUTS
● Architect of the failed bailouts of 2008
As President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which serves as main link to the financial markets:
○ has been main architect of Bush Administration response to the financial crisis and Wall Street bailouts
○ got Treasury Secretary Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke to approve his Machiavellian plan
○ is the New York central banker who in secret crafted the bailouts – not at Bush’s White House or Treasury
○ ignored criticism of his New York Fed’s lack of transparency
● Behind government intervention of Bear Stearns, AIG, Lehman Brothers, Wachovia, etc.
○ was behind the bailouts of the investment bank BEAR STEARNS and the government takeover of insurance giant (AIG)
○ circumvented rules to arrange the bailout of BEAR STEARN’s creditors
○ was driving force in bailing out BEAR STEARNS….or in the … bankruptcy filing of the investment bank LEHMAN BROTHERS
○ showed favoritism toward Citigroup — the financial firm where his mentor, former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, serves as a director and senior counselor.
○ pushed for CITI to take over troubled banker WACHOVIA with government bailout, even after WELLS FARGO offered to buy WACHOVIA at higher price and not cost to taxpayers
● Big Government guy:
○ believes that the Treasury Dept. should be given vast powers to develop experimental strategies for responding to the crisis. He will be Paulson II.

TAX EVASION
● Did not pay his taxes tax documents here, or here
○ did not paid some $42,000 in federal taxes from 2001 through 2004 while working for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which oversees the global financial system
○ as an employee of the IMF, he was considered self-employed and was responsible for paying his self-employment taxes
○ paid $26,000 of that debt after Obama tapped him as his choice for Treasury Secretary
● Kept tax reimbursements of taxes he did not pay
○ he kept the IMF’s tax allowances instead of paying his taxes (the IMF gives its employees an extra allowance so the employees can pay their self-employment taxes)
● Illegal deductions
○ deducted unallowable expenses and did not amended them: i.e., overnight camps of his dependent child in 2001, 2004 and 2005
○ improper small-business deduction, a charitable-contribution deduction for ineligible items, and the expensing of utility costs that went for personal use.
● Employment of illegal maid

CLINTON BUREAUCRAT
● Clinton bureaucrat
○ his mentor was Clinton’s Treasury Secretary, Lawrence H. Summers, who now will serve as a senior economic adviser to Obama
○ worked under Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin and Summers to guide the Clinton administration’s response to currency collapses
○ in the last years of the Clinton administration, Geithner was promoted to undersecretary when Summers became Treasury secretary.

MORE STUPID ACTIONS
As if being one of the main instigators of the failed bailouts and evading his taxes are not enough, the next Treasury Secretary is creating more troubles:
● the dollar promptly fell and gold jumped $40 after Geithner said the Obama Administration “believes that China is manipulating its currency”

NOTES TO PONDER
● With no experience in private banking or finance, he has been the mask behind the bailouts. Who are the faces behind the bailout-government-takeover?
● How can you be head of the Department of Treasury which oversees the IRS, when you have tax problems?
● Despite all his tax evasions, this man will be the nation’s chief tax collector – Obama vowed to be the most transparent and clean administration ever. Obama, you fail again.
● He claims he committed an honest mistake [in not paying his taxes for years] which sounds like a pathetic excuse coming from a man considered to be a brilliant financial markets specialists

LATEST
U.S. Senate Approves Geithner. Final vote 60-34.
No surprise here: a tax-cheater will lead the IRS. Viva the change in bizarro USA!

 

Obama’s War

Obama Bombs Pakistan – Kills 22
Remote-controlled US airstrikes killed 22 people at suspected terrorist hideouts inside Pakistan
A few questions about President Obama’s first airstrike:
○ Where are the anti-war liberals?
○ Where are the baby-killer signs?
○ Why [aren't] the major media networks showing pictures of dead children as a result of Pres. Obama’s air strike?
○ How many innocent civilians were killed?
○ Why didn’t he try diplomacy first? So much for “hope” or “change”.

Obama Begins Air-Raiding Villages & Killing Innocent Civilians

US Attacked
US Embassy in Yemen Attacked
No more O-Kumbaya: Gunmen attack US embassy in Yemen
Al-Qaeda #3 Calls For Attacks on US & Britain

Gitmo Coming To Your Neighborhood?
9/11 Family Member Appalled at Obama’s Gitmo Closing
Murtha Would Welcome Gitmo Terrorists
Gitmo’s Ghosts

Love Thy Terrorist
Obama Camp Announces Talks With Iran Without Preconditions
Obama Speaks to Al-Arabiya… Refuses to Link Islam to Terror–Says All Religions Have Extremists
From Russia With Love: Iran Gets Top Air Defense System

Summary Bailouts (Part 2)

BAILOUTS SO FAR…$8 TRILLION
MORE GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER - TAXPAYERS WILL HAVE TO PAY FOR IT.

click image to enlarge

HOW YOUR MONEY IS BEING SPENT
Citi Forks over 1 Million to La Raza
Ailing Chrysler wants another $3 billion of your money while underwriting a movie

Sources:
Government Bailout Hits $8.5 Trillion (San Francisco Chronicle)
Bailout Breakdown (CNN)
Bailouts: Growing Debt for Taxpayers
Bailouts: All for Governmnet Expansion
Middle of the night bailout for Bank of America; TARP investigation of BoA and Citigroup/Jesse Jackson event requested
Generational Theft Act of 2009

Left Abused Bush, Now Demands Love for Obama

INTOLERANCE DURING INAUGURATION
BUSH MOCKED BY OBAMA-ROBOTS
Is this how they are going to unite the country?

H/t: GatewayPundit, MichelleMalkin: Parting shot, HotAir: Obama Cultists Jeer Departing Bush

THE LEFT DIVIDES: THEY HATE BUSH BECAUSE HE IS NOT A LEFTIST
The left doesn’t hate Bush per se. The left spews their hate towards anyone who dares to think differently. Bush, Palin, Reagan, etc. The left demonizes anyone who doesn’t submit to the communist demagogic slogans. For 8 years, the left and the mainstream media demonized everything the Bush Administration did. The facts did not matter to them. For weeks, they did everything to destroy Governor Sarah Palin. They even accused her husband of incest. For decades, they have been re-writing the successful legacy of Ronald Reagan. Now, the left (including most in the mainstream media & Hollywood) are pressing the 52 million American who did not vote for Obama to submit to the Obama-mania. Now, they want us to love Obama and give him every pass.
Shouldn’t we treat Obama the same way they treated Bush?

THE LEFT DESTROYS: CLINTONS VANDALIZED WHITE HOUSE IN 2001
Bush executed a perfect transition for Obama (even facilitating Obama’s socialistic bailouts). Bush restored decorum to the presidential transition. Contrary with the Clinton transition.
Clinton staffers before they left the White House in 2001:
●  ripped phone cords from walls
●  left obscene voicemail messages
●  defaced bathrooms
●  vandalized computer keyboards by removing the ”W” keys
●  stole several items, including a 12-inch presidential seal and doorknobs.
●  glued desk drawers
LA Times: Clinton Transition Left $15,000 Damages, NY Times: White House Vandalized in Transition, GAO: Damages During the 2001 Presidential Transition

NOTE TO PONDER: Even though the media and the GAO downplayed the damages, it was clear the Clinton staffers engaged in vandalism and thievery which amounted to criminal act. The Bush Administration decided not to prosecute.
What if the Bush staffers would have vandalised the White House and sabotaged the Obama transition team?