The First Week
Second Week
Third Week
Fourth Week in Office
Fifth Week in Office
Sixth Week in Office
United State Trade Representative nominee Ron Kirk who owes back taxes, joining the ranks of other tax-addled Cabinet nominees such as Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, former Health and Human Services Secretary designate Tom Daschle, and former chief performance officer nominee Nancy Killifer.
Nancy-Ann Min DeParle, who President Obama appointed as director of the White House Office of Health Care Reform on Monday, took home at least $2.4 million in 2006 and 2007 from serving on the corporate boards of health-care companies whose businesses she would be in a position to affect in her new position. Since leaving the Clinton administration in 2001, DeParle has made a fortune by serving on 10 boards in the health-care industry in addition to her lucrative career as a managing director at private equity firm CCMP Capital and a senior adviser at JP Morgan Partners. Her journey from the public sector to the private sector and back again would seem to represent the type of revolving door relationship between Washington and corporate America that President Obama pledged to put an end to during the campaign and in an executive order
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who was forced to fork up $34,000 in unpaid back taxes, told the House Ways and Means Committee that the Obama administration will be going after people who avoid and evade taxes. In prepared remarks before Congress, he said the president is intent on "tackling tax shelters and other efforts to abuse our tax laws, including international tax evasion efforts
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, President Barack Obama's choice to head the Health and Human Services Department, is facing questions about increased state payments to a social services group whose board includes the chairman of the state Democratic Party
Obama's Middle-Class Task Force Has No Middle Class. Every member of the President's task force - from Biden ($227,000) to Council of Economic Advisors chair Christina Romer ($172,000) to energy secretary Steven Chu ($191,000) - makes well over $150,000, putting them in the top 5% of wage earners. (See pictures of crime in Middle America
Obama has spent close to $800,000 through 3 different law firms to deny access to his birth certificate
Eighth Week in Office
Judge Fines and Sanctions Man for Seeking Truth about Obama's Eligibility
Geithner's China, Kissinger, family connections
White House knew of nominees' tax problems before
Obama Received a $101,332 Bonus from AIG
Obama's new computer chief, already on leave after an FBI raid at his old job, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor theft in 1996
Obama Knew About AIG Bonuses Day Before They Were Paid
Obama Administration: We Didn't Find Out About AIG Bonuses Until This Month
Commerce pick Gary Locke: tied to China cash
Dodd: Administration pushed for the language protecting AIG bonuses
Obama Banks $2.5 Million for Books
Obama's $500,000 children's book bonanza
Obama compared embattled insurer AIG and other large failing banks to a suicide bomber
At least 13 firms receiving billions of dollars in bailout money owe a total of more than $220 million in unpaid federal taxes
Obama envoy Holbrooke served on AIG's board in 2008
Video: Congress, Geithner knew about bonuses on March 3rd
Ninth Week in Office
U.S. to buy Chinese condoms, ending Alabama jobs
Six weeks after Obama appoints blue-ribbon panel to help dig America out economic crisis, board yet to hold an official public meeting
Obama Justice Department tells San Francisco police not to comment after top officers sign letter accusing Ayers and wife, Dohrn, of being behind 1970 bombing of police station
Obama has named a former Freddie Mac executive to head the federal housing commission
During Obama's second news conference, he took no questions from the NY Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal or USA Today.
When on board of Chicago-based charity, Obama helped fund carbon trading exchange that he is now trying to push through Congress
Rahm Emanuel's Short Freddie Mac stay made him at least $320,000
Obama will nominate former pilots' union boss Randy Babbitt to head the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Tenth Week in Office
Obama Commerce Secretary Locke pushing census into Democrat rich areas
Geithner’s new nominee for number two at the Treasury Department, Neal Wolin, played a key role in the late 1990s deregulating the banking system
Microsoft Corp. is receiving federal stimulus funding for a pet corporate project
The largest increase in tobacco taxes took effect despite Obama's promise not to raise taxes of any kind on families earning under $250,000 or individuals under $200,000
Video: Investigator says Obama campaign in contact with ACORN
Obama's sister signs book deal
Obama selects Robert M. Groves for next census director, a survey researcher who clashed with Republicans over use of statistical sampling to lead the high-stakes head count
Obama e-mails show constant campaign mode and use of fake names
Last year David Axelrod sold the political consulting firm that helped elect President Obama for $2 million to a group of consultants who helped steer Obama’s campaign
Eleventh Weel in Office
Obama admin denies heroic Iraqi translator asylum; may grant it to Uighur terrorists
Geithner's Stress Test "A Complete Sham," Former Federal Bank Regulator Says
VIDEO FLASHBACK: Obama slamming military in Iraq back in 2007, "In A Civil War Where NO Military Solution Exists"
The White House is denying that the president bowed to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at a G-20 meeting in London
Obamas fly in chef 860 miles... just to make pizza
Twelfth Week in Office
Obama's health secretary nominee got nearly three times as much political money from a controversial abortion doctor as she told senators
Obama's Dept. of Homeland Security targeting conservatives
Goldman Sachs rakes in the cash from Obama's TARP
Obama's relaxation of Cuban money transfers just another bail-out scam
VIDEO: Obama spokesman has trouble explaining Goldman-Sachs Bonuses
Obamas made $2.7 million last year
VIDEO: Napolitano’s apology to veterans: Timothy McVeigh ‘was a vet’
VIDEO: Obama Releases CIA Interrogation Techniques
Obama Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano backs down from the security document her department issued for the Obama administration linking pro-life advocates to terrorists
Netanyahu's planned first meeting with President Obama in Washington next month called off. Administration officials tell Netanyahu's office that President would not be "in town
Document: Obama threatens to sue if attempt is made to retrieve Birth Certificate
Report: Steve Rattner, head of Obama's auto task force being probed by authorities for alledged kick-back scheme
VIDEOS: Obama before and after presidency on Cuba
Military Sources accuse Obama of delaying pirate rescue by days
Thirteenth Week in Office
Elena Kagan, the Obama administration's top Supreme Court lawyer has little courtroom experience
Obama balks at another campaign promise: Doesn’t Plan to Reopen Nafta Talks
Obama Habeas Corpus Hypocracy? Close Gitmo, but not Bagram
Treasury Department's internal watchdog, General Neil Barofsky, issued his quarterly report to Congress on TARP. Components of the $700 billion TARP pose "significant" risks for fraud. Treasury Department "adamantly continues to refuse" to require banks to report on how they have used bailout funds
Robert Gibbs, Obama’s Press Secretary, Contradicts Obama’s Campaign Statement, now is denying that Obama was a constitutional law professor
VIDEO: Attorney General Holder Questioned About Interrogation Memos
Fourteenth Week in Office
Transparency? The Obama administration, is rolling back rules requiring labor unions and their leaders to report information about their finances and compensation
In 2008 Obama told NBC’s Tim Russert he'd renegotiate NAFTA to include labor and environmental clauses. Obama’s pro-NAFTA trade ambassador, Ron Kirk, announced treaty would not be redrawn
Obama Advisor: Americans use too much health care
An administration official said presidential Boeing 747 and fighter flew low near ground zero in New York City because the White House Military Office wanted to update its file photo of the president's plane near the Statue of Liberty
The White House apologizes for Air Force Flyover
The FAA flyover memo: Feds knew would cause panic
VIDEO: White House unaware of terrifying 747 Low Fly over New York
White House deflects questions on NYC Plane Incedent
VIDEO: Startled New Yorkers run through the streets as plane photo op goes awry
VIDEO: Obama's Jet buzzes Lower Manhattan, scares New Yorkers
Obamas probe stingy at school auction
Memo: Feds Knew that Flyover would cause panic: Cost of NYC Flyover photo op: $328,835
Pentagon lies about rescue from Somali Pirates. Actual delay 52 hours
White House staffers attend secret dinners with Lefty Media
Obama marks his first 100 days in office with THREE hundred photos... all of him
FACT CHECK: Obama disowns deficit he helped shape
AUDIO: Major Garrett says Obama's snub was payback, and talks bailouts
AUDIO: Interview with Tom Lauria about administration bullying tactics
VIDEO: Did Obama have another phony questioner at a town hall meeting?
Fifteenth Week in Office
Factcheck.org: Obama's claim of 150,000 jobs created claim is really an estimate of what his economic advisers think the stimulus bill is doing, and not based on any evidence of its actual effects
Obama does not expect to get any of the 8 billion given to Chrysler back
Obama flip flops on DC voucher program, seeks to extend the program ...until all those complaining graduate
Obama flip flops on flyover photos: might let them be released now
Michelle Obama announces new fund to aid non-profits.....with taxpayor money
Obama's choice for the government's No. 2 housing job, Ronald Sims, is embroiled in the largest fine in U.S. history for "blatant violations" of open records laws
Photo of flyover
Census Bureau hires 66,000 for census taking: Govmt. report of job losses skewed by massive hiring by federal govmt.; actual number of Job losses 611,00
Attorney General Eric Holder reveals he approved of rendition — essentially, legalized kidnapping — apparently more than once during tenure as President Clinton’s deputy attorney general
Sixteenth Week in Office
Obama proposes a 9% budget cut for the Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) in the Dept. of Labor. OLMS is the federal agency that investigates financial crimes that occur when union officials steal from their union
The California governor's office says the Service Employees International Union may have had influence over the Obama administration's decision to withhold federal stimulus money from California if the state does not reverse a wage cut for the union's workers
VIDEO: Big Union, SEIU, in health care meetings with Obama and Congress
VIDEO: State Rep. Bilbrey comments on the SEIU/Obama connection, corruption in California "Pay to Play"union ploy
VIDEO: White house dodges question about Pelosi
Hospitals and insurance companies said Thursday that President Obama had substantially overstated their promise earlier this week to reduce the growth of health spending.
Obama nominates Utah Gov. Huntsman envoy to China; Jeff Bader, Obama's senior adviser on Asia, knew Huntsman from when they both worked in the U.S. Trade Representative's office
Obama has most of his assets in US Treasury Bills.... reported over $4 million in book royalties
Seventeenth Week in Office
Emanuel and Blagojevich traded numerous calls in 2006 about school grant
Global AIDS activists say Obama broker four pledges for Africa; All about money
The administration gave House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, advanced warning before CIA Chief Panetta sent memo to employees at the CIA that countered Pelosi's claim that the agency lied to Congress about waterboarding.
Buy-out chief Mark Patterson; US sham bank bail-outs enrich speculators; " US Treasury’s effort to stabilise the banking system through the TARP programme is a hopelessly ill-conceived policy that enriches speculators at public expense"
British firms are being shut out from lucrative contracts in the US despite assurances from Barack Obama that America would not start a trade war
Obama may earn millions from taxpayer-funded schools in his new book deal. Random house, big campaign donor, wants to sell Obama's"Dreams of my Father" to publicly funded schools
Of the 16 members of Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, only one (Feldstein) opposes cap-and-trade. At least six (Immelt, Owens, Doerr, Ferguson, Wolf, Phillips) expect direct financial benefits from cap-and-trade. The remaining members are either Obama supporters/employees or union representatives. Taxpayers, consumers and non-rent-seeking businesses have been left out in the cold
Obama's gives meandering response to request for birth certificate: "I wish I could say that there is a simple formula," .... "But there is not. These are tough calls involving competing concerns, and they require a surgical approach
Obama dumps the meeting with preschoolers to meet the Pittsburgh Steelers. Kids locked out of White House. Says they were"Too late"
Obama outsourcing interrogation
Eighteenth Week in Office
Obama violates another campaign pledge. Opposes law that snared Blagojevich; a law intended to prevent politically connected companies from unfairly winning government contracts
Obama continues to violate pledge to wait 5 days to sign any bill. Last week 4 more bills signed this week with less than 5 days wait.
Evidence appears to be mounting that the Obama administration has systematically targeted for closing Chrysler dealers who contributed to Repubicans
Obama limits lobbiests' first amendment rights by decree, restricts those who can lobby on economic recovery and stimulus projects
Nineteenth Week in Office
Obama was the First President in US History to Have Voted to Filibuster a Supreme Court Nominee
Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock: "The Chrysler deal is a clear violation of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution and more than 150 years of bankruptcy law”
Obama story lies: "Uncle" who liberated Auschwitz wasn't a relative at all and wasn't at Auschwitz
VIDEO: President's press secretary struggles to explain Obama's expensive night out to New York City
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs is declining to say what it cost for Obama and wife, to eat dinner and take in a play in New York over the weekend
Obama nominee to the Department of Education's Office of Safe & Drug Free Schools, Kevin Jennings, is a homosexual activist with a history of using foul and abusive language against those who have opposed his homosexualist agenda.
Twentieth Week
The Obama administration might have found a home for the 17 Uighurs detained at Gitmo. According to the Associated Press, the small Pacific Island of Palua is reportedly taking some or all of the 17 Uighurs in exchange for $200 million.
Obama's former aide Louis Caldera, fired for NYC Flyover, has been hired by longtime Democratic activist John Podesta
Obama plans to fire the inspector general who investigates AmeriCorps and other national service programs amid a controversy between the IG and Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, who is an Obama supporter and former NBA basketball star.
Donald Remy, Obama's choice to be the Army's general counsel, dropped out of the running after taking criticism from the Senate Armed Services Committee for not disclosing ties with Fannie Mae
VIDEO: Obama auto team called Chryser shareholder laywer a "terrorist"
GM's CEO Edward Whitacre has ties to the Chicago political machine as well as the White House
Twentyfirst Week
Nancy-Ann DeParle, the official overseeing White House health care reform efforts earned more than $5.8 million in the past three years from her work for major medical companies
Key Obama Ally, Inspector General of the Corporation for National and Community Service, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo, Says President Obama Did Not Follow the Law in IG Firing
Former AmeriCorps Official, Gerald Walpin, Says Obama Removed Him for 'Doing My Job'
Obama Accuses Fired Inspector General of AmeriCorps of Being 'Confused, Disoriented'
Gerald Walpin, who was the inspector general for the Corporation for National and Community Service, says that part of President Obama's explanation for firing him was a "total lie" and that he feels he's got a target on his back for political reasons.
VIDEO: Walpin fired (by Obama) for doing his job?
A top Republican senator is asking whether First Lady Michelle Obama's office played any role in last week's firing of former service program Inspector General Gerald Walpin
Independant witness confirms Walpin's account and idicts the White House on IG firing
White House refuses to answer Senate questions on AmeriCorps IG firing
Obama appoints his sister to President's Commission on Whitehouse Fellowships
A top White House lawyer called the firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin an act of "political courage," according to House Republican aides who were in a meeting with the lawyer
VIDEO: shows an interview with Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson admitting his close relationship with both the president and the first lady and later denying the relationship. Mr. Johnson is currently embroiled in Walpin-gate. His non-profit, St. HOPE Academy, is being investigated by the FBI over allegations that an executive at the nonprofit founded by Mr. Johnson obstructed a federal inquiry into the group's spending.
Sen. Grassley, ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, is looking into the abrupt firings within the last week of two other inspectors general, one of whom was fired by the White House and the other by the chair of the International Trade Commission.
Obama's choice as chief of protocol for the State Department, Capricia Penavic Marshall, did not file tax returns for 2005 and 2006, errors she corrected last November. Blames Post Office.
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