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White House social secretary Desiree Rogers resigns

March 1st, 2010 · Non-Transparency, Obama's Scheme

By Michael D. Shear and Jason Horowitz Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, February 27, 2010; 2:00 PM

White House social secretary Desirée Rogers, a friend of President Obama’s from Chicago, is leaving her job to return to the private sector, the White House announced Friday.

Rogers’s tenure as the top party and events planner for the administration was marred by the Salahi gate-crashing incident, in which a Virginia couple managed to enter the White House grounds during Obama’s first state dinner in November.

Although a senior administration official said the incident proved decisive for her tenure, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the decision to leave was her own.

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Obama’s Priority – Pass Bills, Not Protect Americans

March 1st, 2010 · Banking Industry, Deception, Democrats, Ethics, Federal Spending, Government Control, Greed, Non-Transparency, Obama's Scheme, Selling Out the US, Tax Dollars, Taxes, Terrorism from Within

Obama may compromise on consumer agency to pass financial regulation

By David Cho and Brady Dennis Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 25, 2010

The Obama administration is no longer insisting on the creation of a stand-alone consumer protection agency as a central element of the plan to remake regulation of the financial system.

In hopes of quick congressional approval of a reform bill, White House officials are opening the door to compromise with lawmakers concerned about creating a new bureaucracy, according to congressional and some administration sources.

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General-aviation security proposal is being scaled back

February 8th, 2010 · Accountability, Corruption, Deception, Democrats, Federal Spending, Greed, Homeland Security, National Security, Non-Transparency, Obama's Scheme, Selling Out the US, Tax Dollars, Terrorism from Within, Treason

By Spencer S. Hsu Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, February 7, 2010

Citing industry objections, the Transportation Security Administration is preparing to scale back a controversial plan to expand aviation security rules for the first time to thousands of private planes.

TSA officials said this week they expect to issue a revised plan this fall that will significantly reduce from 15,000 the number of U.S.-registered general-aviation aircraft subjected to tougher rules. Also, instead of mandating that all passengers aboard private planes be checked against terrorist watch lists, name checks in many cases could be left to the discretion of pilots, they said.

The shifts would mark significant rollbacks of security changes that supporters called overdue and essential to preventing terrorists from using small planes to smuggle dangerous weapons or carry out suicide attacks. Opponents, however, called the measures unwarranted, poorly thought out and overly burdensome on aircraft owners and manufacturers.

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U.S. outpost in Afghanistan was left vulnerable to attack, inquiry finds

February 6th, 2010 · Deception, Defense, Federal Spending, Foreign Policy, Government Control, National Security, Non-Transparency, Obama's Scheme, Selling Out the US, War on Terrorism

By Joshua Partlow Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, February 6, 2010

KABUL — Delays in closing a remote U.S. military outpost in eastern Afghanistan before eight American soldiers were killed last fall in an attack by 300 insurgents increased the base’s vulnerability, according to a summary of a military investigation released Friday.

The prolonged siege of Combat Outpost Keating, in the Kamdesh district of Nurestan province, was one of the deadliest insurgent attacks against U.S. troops in Afghanistan. It came to symbolize the danger entailed in posting small groups of soldiers in sparsely populated areas, a strategy commanders have moved away from under a new plan to protect more-populous areas.

The investigation into the attack, led by Army Maj. Gen. Guy C. Swan III, drew on interviews from about 140 people who were either at the outpost or had information about the attack. The inquiry found that the roughly 60 soldiers stationed there defended the base courageously, killing about 150 insurgents.

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House votes to revive pay-as-you-go budget rules

February 6th, 2010 · Corruption, Deception, Democrats, Ethics, Federal Spending, Greed, Money Lost, Non-Transparency, Obama's Scheme, Selling Out the US, Tax Dollars, Taxes, Terrorism from Within, Treason

By Lori Montgomery Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, February 5, 2010

Congress agreed Thursday to revive the pay-as-you-go budget rules that helped wipe out massive deficits and balance the budget during the Clinton administration, although the new version includes a long list of exceptions that would permit Democrats to add at least $1.5 trillion to the nation’s tab over the next decade.

The House voted 233 to 187 to approve the rules, known in congressional shorthand as paygo. The rules were adopted last month by the Senate and now go to President Obama for his signature.

The return to paygo comes as record deficits push the government more deeply into debt than at any time since the 1950s. Democrats attached the new rules to a must-pass measure that raises the legal limit on government borrowing by a record $1.9 trillion. With the public debt expected to hit the current cap by next week, the increase — which was approved on a separate vote, 217 to 212 — authorizes the Treasury Department to continue borrowing to cover the nation’s bills through early next year.

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NASA budget for 2011 eliminates funds for manned lunar missions.

February 1st, 2010 · Federal Spending, Greed, Obama's Scheme, Selling Out the US, Tax Dollars

By Joel Achenbach Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, February 1, 2010

NASA’s grand plan to return to the moon, built on President George W. Bush’s vision of an ambitious new chapter in space exploration, is about to vanish with hardly a whimper. With the release Monday of President Obama’s budget request, NASA will finally get the new administration’s marching orders, and there won’t be anything in there about flying to the moon.

The budget numbers will show that the administration effectively plans to kill the Constellation program that called for a return to the moon by 2020. The budget, expected to increase slightly over the current $18.7 billion, is also a death knell for the Ares 1 rocket, NASA’s planned successor to the space shuttle. The agency has spent billions developing the rocket, which is still years from its first scheduled crew flight.

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Jobless claims, durable goods point to weak growth

January 28th, 2010 · Deception, Democrats, Federal Spending, Government Control, Greed, Money Lost, Non-Transparency, Obama's Scheme, Politics, Selling Out the US, Tax Dollars, Taxes

By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER and MARTIN CRUTSINGER – The Associated Press
Thursday, January 28, 2010; 12:55 PM

WASHINGTON — Evidence that the economic rebound remains sluggish emerged from reports Thursday on new claims for unemployment aid and orders to U.S. factories.

The number of people claiming jobless aid fell last week, but less than expected. And orders for big-ticket manufactured goods rose but also fell short of analysts’ predictions.

Weak job creation, in particular, is restraining consumer spending and holding back the economic recovery.

The reports follow President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address Wednesday night, which focused on the economy and jobs. Obama called on Congress to enact a second stimulus package, urging that it contain help for small businesses and funding for infrastructure projects.

Also on Wednesday, the Federal Reserve kept the short-term interest rate it controls at a record-low level of nearly zero and pledged to keep it there for “an extended period.”

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Government-led housing recovery might be losing steam

January 27th, 2010 · Federal Spending, Government, Housing Industry, Money Lost, News Alert, Obama's Scheme, Stimulus, Tax Dollars, Taxes

News Alert

10:03 AM EDT Wednesday, January 27, 2010

New home sales unexpectedly fall in December

Sales of newly built U.S. single-family homes fell unexpectedly in December, data showed on Wednesday, the latest indication that the government-led housing recovery might be losing some steam.

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Obama to propose freeze on government spending

January 26th, 2010 · Deception, Democrats, Federal Spending, Money Lost, Obama's Scheme, Selling Out the US, Tax Dollars, Taxes

By Lori Montgomery Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Under mounting pressure to rein in mammoth budget deficits, President Obama will propose in his State of the Union address a three-year freeze on federal funding that is not related to national security, a concession to public concern about government spending that could dramatically curtail Obama’s legislative ambitions.

The freeze would take effect in October and limit the overall budget for agencies other than the military, veterans affairs, homeland security and certain international programs to $447 billion a year for the remainder of Obama’s first term, senior administration officials said Monday, imposing sharp limits on his ability to begin initiatives in education, the environment and other areas of domestic policy.

Although the freeze would shave no more than $15 billion off next year’s budget — barely denting a deficit projected to exceed $1 trillion for the third year in a row — White House officials said it could save significantly more during the next decade. They described the freeze as a critical component of a broader deficit-reduction campaign intended to restore confidence in Obama’s ability to control the excesses of Washington and the most lavish aspirations of his own administration.

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Debate grows in aftermath of quake: Should U.S. let more Haitians immigrate?

January 25th, 2010 · Federal Spending, Homeland Security, Immigration, National Security, Obama's Scheme, Selling Out the US, Tax Dollars, Taxes, Terrorism from Within, Treason

By Amy Goldstein and Peter Whoriskey Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 25, 2010

From morning until night, Dieula Celestin’s cellphone rings in Miami’s Little Haiti. It is her younger brother, Roger Paul, calling from Port-au-Prince, where he and their 65-year-old mother live with no food, no job and no money in the street outside the remnants of their house.

Celestin knows that federal immigration rules forbid her brother, her mother and half a dozen other people in her family who survived the earthquake — as eight others died — to enter the United States. Still, she flew to Haiti late Saturday, hoping that somehow she could find a way to bring them back.

Now that the earthquake’s initial shock is giving way to the realities of trying to cope in the ruins, a growing number of Haitians — and their relatives in the United States — are starting to chafe under the Obama administration’s edict to resist, as Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has put it, “an impulse to leave the island and to come here.”

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