Obama's czars; How many is too many to have?

Let's count Obama's czars; Health reform Czar ,  Urban affairs Czar, Energy and climate change Czar, Car Czar, AIDS Czar, Drug Czar, and he just recently picked his gaffe galore VP as the Stimulus Czar. 

So what's the big deal?

Czars are not accountable to Congress or to Cabinet officials and rarely testify before congressional committees. These Czar will not go through confirmation hearings, and they  are not accountable to public.  So why is he doing it, well a Democrat Senator Byrd  thinks that Obama's administration is tying to accumulative more power through these czars and asserting more control.  This is a direct conflict with Obama's commitment to openness and transparency.

There is no hope and no change!! Another broken promise.

Obama needs some history lesson!

"And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it."

~ President Obama during his first Sate Of The Union address.

How embarrassing! Our president does not know that we did not invent automobile and now Germans are probably  laughing at us!

Why Obama Is So Secretive?

"Right now in Congress, they’re working on the budget. And just like the last time the House prepared to spend ungodly amounts of money, the Democrats have excluded the Republicans. Even worse, they’re not letting the public see the bill before it’s voted on.

Meanwhile, the Obama administration is working on its defense bill. And to make certain that everyone sings from the same hymnal, they’ve ordered top defense officials to sign a secrecy oath that they will not discuss the details with anyone outside the federal government."

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Barack Obama under fire for picking a crony fundraiser as his ambassador to Britain

More "hope & change" stuff from Obama's administration.  Do they know that their mantra of "change & hope" is becoming  ridicules? Here is the headline:

"Barack Obama has been embroiled in a cronyism row after reports that he intends to make Louis Susman, one of his biggest fundraisers, the new US ambassador in London. " Read on.

Or you can read some reaction about this appointment here.

Obama The Grinch

Will Obama stop campaigning and start governing? Can he do that? Well even NYTimes most Liberal commentator has her doubts. Maureen Dowd had this to say:

"Though he demonstrated in the campaign that he has a rare gift for inspiring the country with new belief in itself, Mr. Obama has not yet captured either the grit the moment requires or the fury it provokes. He has not explained in a compelling way why Americans who followed the rules need to sacrifice more to help those who flouted the rules."

and this from Jennifer Rubin:

"Much as it may pain the former community organizer, Obama’s job is not now to criticize, demean, rile and anger the public. We thought he, better than most politicians in recent memory, understood the power of rhetoric to lift and inspire, but maybe that only worked as a campaign tactic. Now there is no George Bush to kick around. And the result seems to be a surly and depressive presidency. Perhaps we were not the change we were waiting for after all".

Obama's Rhetoric Is the Real 'Catastrophe'

Mr. Obama's analogies to the Great Depression are not only historically inaccurate, they're also dangerous. Repeated warnings from the White House about a coming economic apocalypse aren't likely to raise consumer and investor expectations for the future. In fact, they have contributed to the continuing decline in consumer confidence that is restraining a spending pickup. Beyond that, fearmongering can trigger a political stampede to embrace a "recovery" package that delivers a lot less than it promises. A more cool-headed assessment of the economy's woes might produce better policies.
Read the whole article here.

Enough Mr. President enough! It's time to lead the country and stop campaigning!

Another broken promise by Obama!

Thank God for youtube! Here Obama promises that the public will have 5 DAYS to look online and find out what's in his proposed bills before he signs it. Well, another promise broken. Barack Obama is going to sign the largest spending bill in US history on Monday, It had only been posted online for 12 hours before it was voted on in the US House and Senate.

Obama is changing his webiste to remove any past promises!

The American Small Business League is also finding out that Obama is breaking with his campaign rhetoric. Here is what they had to say:

President Obama seemed to agree it was time to stop the fraud and abuse in federal small business contracting programs when, in February of 2008, he released the statement, "Small businesses are the backbone of our nation's economy and we must protect this great resource. It is time to end the diversion of federal small business contracts to corporate giants."

Since making that statement almost a year ago, President Obama has consistently refused to make good on his campaign promise, and support legislation to stop Fortune 500 firms from hijacking federal contracts designated for America's nearly 27 million small businesses.

Not only has President Obama refused to propose even a single policy to address the problem, but he actually changed his Web site to remove the appearance that he had ever made the statement, "It is time to end the diversion of federal small business contracts to corporate giants."

Is someone counting the broken promises? It's interesting to see how many it will add up until his re-election?

Obama's broken promises continues

Remember this promise from Obama during campaing, well it's gone now. Another promise broken!

Obama mocked? That's a new beginning!

Things must be really bad for Obama when you see Daily Show mocks him for his performance this week, watch:

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Obama's Secret Stimulus Package!

“For officials who came into office promising to operate the most honest and transparent White House and Congress ever, President Barack Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid seem determined to achieve exactly the opposite result. . . . Less than 48 hours elapsed between the time the text of the compromise became available for public examination late Saturday evening and yesterday’s 61-37 vote for passage. At that rate, the Senate effectively was spending about $300 million every minute while considering the compromise, and allowing taxpayers a scandalously brief opportunity to discover how the senators were doing it. ....” Continue to read here.

 Another promise broken piece by piece.

UPDATE: Republicans Shut Out of Stimulus Conference Negotiations. More signs of bipartisanship, Obama style!

Obama & Dow Performance 93 Days Post Election!

Ouch! Obama & Marine One.

Obama waves and learns the door on Marine One is much shorter than he is, and bumps his head ...ouch! he is getting used to Marine One. Go here and vote for the picture.

Obama's Governing Style ?

He dictates, complains and campaigns — ultimately not very effective means for a president. And the high rhetoric mixed with nasty partisanship is not only confusing, but it undercuts what for him was the key attraction for many voters — you remember: his temperament.

Read the rest here.

Obama administration and tax cheaters!

Wow! another tax cheater in the Obama's administarion:

A Senate committee today abruptly canceled a session to consider President Obama's nomination of Rep. Hilda Solis to be labor secretary in the wake of a report saying that her husband yesterday paid about $6,400 to settle tax liens against his business -- including liens that had been outstanding for as long as 16 years.

Oh! I see this one does not matter, it's the husband who cheated for the last 16 years while she was the congresswoman! Indeed the era of responsibility has begun.

Obama's empty words, and his politics of fear!

What happened to politics of HOPE that he run during his campaign? His words mean nothing anymore.  Here is what he said yesterday:

"A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe."
-- President Obama, Feb. 4.

 Catastrophe, mind you. So much for the president who in his inaugural address two weeks earlier declared "we have chosen hope over fear." Until, that is, you need fear to pass a bill.

Obama's religion

I was not raised in a particularly religious household.  I 

had a father who was born a Muslim but became an atheist, 

grandparents who were non-practicing Methodists and 

Baptists, and a mother who was skeptical of organized 

religion, even as she was the kindest, most spiritual 

person I’ve ever known.  She was the one who taught me as a 

child to love, and to understand, and to do unto others as 

I would want done.   

 

I didn’t become a Christian until many years later, when I 

moved to the South Side of Chicago after college.

Obama, February 5,National Prayer Breakfast.

Our only point is how come he never talks this way during his campaign. Why did he get mad, every time people will raise his Muslim background?  So what was he before becoming a Christian? Why can't he just talk about this?

Has Obama lost control?

Newsweek’s Michael Hirsh sounds panicky as he warns the President has “has all but lost control of the agenda in Washington at a time when he simply can’t afford to do so.” :

The decisive issue here is leadership. The lack of it is what is plaguing the Obama administration. Every war needs a successful general, and this administration doesn’t have one yet.

No kidding!! Obama has never been a leader in any issue in his life. He just wrote two books and you can read his books and you will know there is nothing there!!! Don't blame us, we made it clear in this blog that he just likes to give speeches , that's all he knows!

Obama's broken promises ... continues

Remember this pledge from Obama when he was campaigning? (check right away before they erase it~)

Too often bills are rushed through Congress and to the president before the public has the opportunity to review them. As president, Obama will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days.

Obama has now signed two bills into law — the Lily Ledbetter Act and SCHIP — and in neither case did he wait five days before signing.

Obamanation = Naive abroad and Wasteful at home

Obama runs the risk that every rebuff is regarded as a personal setback. His first full week in power has been clouded by the farcical presence of Rod Blagojevich, the impeached former governor of Illinois, and revelations that Tom Daschle, his choice for health secretary, had failed to pay more than $128,000 in taxes.

The president’s foreign policy offensive also got off to an uncertain start. Critics claim there are too many czars and special envoys at the White House and State Department, who will end up fighting rather than problem solving.

Read the whole think here.

Kentucky freezes; Obama dines on $100 a pound steak

Kentucky freezes; Obama dines on $100 a pound steak.  Click here.

Where is the outrage? Nearly 1 million people are without power in ice storm.. I guess the outrage was only for Katrina. HOPE and CHANGE is merely a campaign slogan.

Obama & White House Thermostat.

What a hypocrte this guy is? After lecturing us about, "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times . . . and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK." 

We read this story in the New York Times:

The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. There was, however, a logical explanation: Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat.

"He's from Hawaii, O.K.?" said Mr. Obama's senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. "He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there."

Oh! really Mr. President.  We love it warm too but we thought we have to watch our carbon footprints!!!

Obama Hires Back An Advisor After Firing Her

This is just amazing!  Samantha Power, the professor who earned notoriety for calling Hillary Rodham Clinton a "monster" while working to elect Barack Obama president, will take a senior foreign policy job at the White House.
This is the same lady who said, "Clinton is stooping to anything and the amount of deceit she has put forward is really unattractive." Obama let her go during his campaign because he did not wanted to look bad. But I guess it's cool to have her back now. He is "hoping" no one will notice!

I wonder what's Hillary thinking now?

More Lobbyists in Obama's government!

USA Today reports that Obama hires shows that 21 have registered as federal lobbyists.  What happened to his pledge of NO LOBBYIST in my administration?  More broken promises!

Obama can't find the door

Obama was trying really hard to open a window !!Couldn't he see that there is not handle there?  Can you imagine if Bush had done this? 

Will Mr. Obama put the stimulus package online for all people to review it?

Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked about when the bill would go online, and replied that it would be available between the time the bill is in its final form and when President Obama signs it.

Do they really think we are stupid? What good would that do if they post the package after he signs it?  What happened to Mr. Obama's promise of transparency?  Is he already braking that promise too?

Obama & His Muslim family ?!

"I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim Countries."

Barack H. Obama
Al-Arabiya Interview
January 27, 2009

Excuse us! How come  he never talked about this during his campaign? He never wanted people using his middle name? 

Also Which Muslim countries he lived in? We know Indonesia, but he mentioned countries!?  What's next? He will tell us that he was once Muslim? We did raise this issue last year. Click her to read our post. Also remember this article in New York Times where Obama proudly recited Quran? Here is an excerpt from NYTimes which we blog about it last year:

Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”

We think, Obama should have gone all the way in this interview and recited Quran to the Arab world, so they will start loving us!  Let's be clear, the issue is not the being Muslim or not, the issue is his dishonesty and  not being straight forward with American people.  That's is the issue not what religion he or his family have.

His interview was disgraceful with comments like this:

"What I told him is start by listening, because all too often the United States starts by dictating,"  He said this and immediately Saudi dictators praised Obama for this comment.  

Obama administration's transparency ! They mean something else!

President Obama promised us the most transparent administration ever! So what happened? Already they decided that they will get rid of the transcripts of the daily press briefing. According the Weekly Standard blog, It's been four days since Press Secretary Robert Gibbs' first (and widely panned) appearance before the White House press corps, but no transcript.

The decision to withhold transcripts is not a departure from the Obama Team's online posture during the campaign, and signals that's exactly the posture they intend to take for the next four years. Team Obama got a lot of credit for being an active online presence, which indeed it was, but that presence was built for message control, not openness!

Get ready, every word has a different meaning to Obama and his team.

Obama's Treasury-designate is an embarrassment!

This post was originally posted on 1/12/09.

Obama Treasury-designate Tim Geithner might not make it because of his failure to pay payroll taxes totaling about $45,000 when he worked at the IMF. Geithner paid some of the back taxes in 2006 after an IRS audit, but it was only recently — after his Treasury appointment by Obama — that he paid back earliertaxes from 2001 and 2002. For a guy who will reside over the IRS, this is certainly a major embarrassment. 

~Larry Kudlow

I can't believe if Obama keeps this guy.  How can we have any respect for a guy that will oversee the IRS, when he himself did not bother to pay the taxes?  I thought Democrats love paying taxes, but I guess not their own taxes, they want "other" people pay for them!

UPDATE: THE TAX CHEATER GOT CONFIRMED, SHAME ON THE SENATORS WHO VOTED FOR HIM

Obama's Transparency?!

Check out this clip from the ate night comedian Kimmel.