Posts about Obama’s Czars as of October 15, 2009

This is a sort of  ‘dissectorial’ which I define as an corrective editorial when columnists go feral (or alternatively satire when you despair on current political discourse). This time, it is Ann Coulter’s fault, and the gloves are off. I usually don’t mind Ann Coulter that much. She is often funny, frequently tongue in cheek, and I have always had a suspicion secretly know she was peddling a bill of goods, but makes a good living off it so doesn’t care.

  “I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.” ~John Adams Dick Armey On Cavuto – The Dems Hide Behind The Curtain   Glenn Beck-10-14-09-A   Glenn Beck-10-14-09-B

By: Ann Coulter The question of whether President Obama should send more troops to Afghanistan misses the point. What Obama really needs to do is: Invent a time machine, go back to the 2008 presidential campaign and not say, over and over and over again, that Afghanistan was a “war of necessity” while the war in Iraq was a “war of choice.” (Oh, and as long as you’re back there, ditch Van Jones, Valerie Jarrett and that gay “school safety” czar.) The most important part of warfare is picking your battlefield, and President Bush picked Iraq for a reason.

Washington — The nation’s new manufacturing czar said Wednesday the Obama administration is likely to unveil new efforts to boost factory jobs in the coming months. Read more

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(8:00 mark) Previous: Obama Pay Czar Kenneth Feinberg Is Planning To Clamp Down On Corporate Earning..Will Probably Redistribute To Someone Who Doesn’t Deserve It NYTimes : U.S. Pay Czar Tries Again to Trim A.I.G. Bonuses By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH The federal pay czar is trying to force the American International Group to reduce $198 million in bonuses promised to employees of its trading unit, where problems posed a threat to the global financial system last year.

Special Interests See ‘Classified’ Copyright Treaty; You Can’t : Via Threat Level . Want to know the language of the ever-transforming proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement? It’s classified. And, according to the Obama administration, it carries national security implications . According to leaked documents on WikiLeaks, the proposed treaty would require ISPs to terminate repeat copyright scofflaws, criminalize peer-to-peer file sharing, subject iPods to border searches and even interfere with the legitimate sale of brand-name pharmaceutical products.

Law Reform Over the Last Three Months0 Digg.comMixx.comTechnoratidel.icio.usFacebook.comStumbleUponreddit.com Feb24 So, I suck at life during the winter months. I won’t apologize or make excuses – I’ll just recap some of the things I’ve failed to mention in my absence and move along like it never happened. Okay? Okay. In no particular order…Obama’s in The House! On January 20th, Barack Obama was inaugurated into the White House as the first African-American President in history.

I called one of my brokers (Stan) today due to my concern over the fall in bond prices, among other things and it was his opinion that barry et. al. are trying to destroy the middle-class in America. Of course Stan lives and breathes finances so I value his opinion. He stated that the banks are making record profits on our backs but are not lending money to any great extent. People are losing jobs which they will not be able to regain.

Democrats have been oddly silent about the millions of dollars aides to Treasury Secretary Tim Geither raked in while working for bailed out financial institutions. Based on past statements by President Obama, you’d think he would fire these guys out of principle. Oct. 14 ( Bloomberg ) — Some of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s closest aides, none of whom faced Senate confirmation, earned millions of dollars a year working for Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Citigroup Inc.

Submitted by: John Butler Cass Sunstein By Aaron Klein © 2009 WorldNetDaily   TEL AVIV – President Obama’s newly confirmed regulatory czar defended the possibility of removing organs from terminally ill patients without their permission. Cass Sunstein also has strongly pushed for the removal of organs from deceased individuals who did not explicitly consent to becoming organ donors .

Much has been written about Obama’s controversial appointments, not only to the federal bench, but to key cabinet positions, as well as to the unaccountable (and probably unconstitutional) “Czar” positions. Much of the criticism has dwelled on the Obama administration’s lack of vetting when filling these rolls—but that’s not the issue. Obama has surrounded himself with extreme advisors To the contrary, the Obama team did investigate thoroughly and they choose precisely.

From Bloomberg : Geithner Aides Reaped Millions Working for Banks, Hedge Funds By Robert Schmidt Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) — Some of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s closest aides, none of whom faced Senate confirmation, earned millions of dollars a year working for Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Citigroup Inc. and other Wall Street firms, according to financial disclosure forms. The advisers include Gene Sperling, who last year took in $887,727 from Goldman Sachs and $158,000 for speeches mostly to financial companies, including the firm run by accused Ponzi scheme mastermind R.

Want to know the language of the ever-transforming proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement? It’s classified. And, according to the Obama administration, it carries national security implications . According to leaked documents on WikiLeaks, the proposed treaty would require ISPs to terminate repeat copyright scofflaws, criminalize peer-to-peer file sharing, subject iPods to border searches and even interfere with the legitimate sale of brand-name pharmaceutical products.

None Dare Call It Conspiracy … Well, it certainly IS a criminal enterprise . That’s for sure! The House That Goldman Sachs Built The U.S. Treasury Department is the central headquarters of Wall Street, and Timmy Geithner is its demigod. The coup of the Treasury Department, which promotes itself as the “steward of U.S. economic and financial systems,” means an economy and financial system run by and for the Wall Street oligarchy, with Goldman Sachs spearheading the ruling class.

The pending conviction of Baltimore Mayor Dixon on charges of theft and perjury have the NAACP worried . Not worried about corruption of course, but worried that the republican governor of Maryland could appoint someone “white” or someone “Irish” to replace the black mayor. Marvin Cheatham, president of the Baltimore NAACP has introduced a resolution to strip the governor of his powers of appointment to prevent this nightmare scenario from happening. Marvin L.

The fellow whom our free-market loving, totally capitalist president appointed to regulate and set pay levels for allegedly private financial firms is peeved because one of the companies bailed out by Uncle Sucker wants to honor prior contracts requiring it to pay bonuses to its employees. Because our president and his economic advisors know that nothing creates economic security like a government that can arbitrarily void contracts at will. What’s under the pay Czar’s skin is that people he deems “unessential” are going to receive bonuses .

I’ve been tracking the progress of Rep. Jack Kingston’s (R-Ga.) Czar Accountability and Reform (CZAR) Act of 2009 , the legislation that would kill the salaries of Obama appointees not confirmed by the Senate. As of today, Kingston has found 116 co-sponsors, including Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the party’s whip, and Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), the party’s likely candidate in the 2010 U.S. Senate race in Illinois. But he has lost his only Democratic co-sponsor, Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-Mo.).

That’s correct. You whose future is in the hands of radical left-wing communist criminal thugs called “Czars” should take solace in the fact that the Obama junta is addressing the problem: “Czars” are now becoming “Counselors.” Great. We can all relax now, knowing that the Obama junta has addressed the problem of anti-American, anti-Constitution, criminal commie thugs running our nation. The title of counselor had been generally reserved for those awaiting confirmation.

By David Goldman, CNNMoney.com staff writerLast Updated: October 14, 2009: 12:56 PM ET Bailout overseer Neil Barofsky said some of AIG’s retention bonuses were given to non-essential personnel. Ranking the rescues The collapse of Lehman led to a deeper recession and a litany of government programs to try to end the pain. We rate just how bold and effective the plans have been so far.

If you read Chapter 6 of Culture of Corruption, you know all about President Obama’s Wall Street money men — who look an awful like President Bush’s bailout-happy money men from the world of Government Sachs and CITI. I’ll include an excerpt below.I’ll need to update the chapter with the latest info from Bloomberg News, which spotlights Tim Geithner’s continuing inability to get his aides through the confirmation process that he himself barely squeaked through.

Money changers take over the TempleOctober 14, 2009 Being Goldman Sachs is a wonderful thing. Saved from bankruptcy by the Federal Reserve and the Treasury, its competitors, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, sacrificed to the wolves, its bad debt covered at 100 cents on the dollar with the bailout of AIG, and more manna from heaven from the FDIC for becoming a commercial bank. Oh, free-market capitalism and the not so invisible hand of powerful plutocrats!Goldman, like Croesus, is wealthy to the extreme, and favored by the financial gods in Washington.

Executives in the Financial Products Group at American International Group have paid back just over 40 percent of the $45 million in promised bonus repayments.  However, now it looks as if the remaining $26 million in expected repayments hinges on the outcome of Pay Czar Kenneth Feinberg’s latest request to AIG, asking that the insurer reduce the $198 million in retention bonuses that are still due. According to a report from the TARP Inspector General, $19 million of the pledged repayments have been as of the end of August.

FCC Commissioner Says Diversity Chief’s Ideas for Regulating Free Speech Are ‘Troubling’ CNSNews, October 14, 2009   Federal Communications Commissioner Robert McDowell has called the statements and writings of FCC Chief Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd “troubling,” adding that everyone should be concerned when federal regulators have the power to impact freedom of speech.

Image via Wikipedia ” Goldman Sachs 2009 bonuses to double 2008’s; $23 billion could send 460,000 to Harvard, buy insurance for 1.7 million families #,” is from The Raw Story (10/13/09). ” New GOP website says party hasn’t had any accomplishments since 2004 #,” is from The Raw Story (10/13/09). ” Pay czar asks AIG not to pay promised bonuses #,” is from Yahoo! News (10/13/09). ” Analysis: Vitriol, invective at the speed of light #,” is from Yahoo! News (10/12/09).

If Obama Had Told Us Before the Election… Phyllis Schlafly | ChronWatch If Barack Obama had campaigned on what he has actually done in his first 300 days in office, would he have been elected? That’s the question so many are asking today. If Obama had told us he would appoint 34 czars, reporting only to himself and not vetted or confirmed in the constitutional way, building a powerful unitary executive branch of government, would he have been elected?

Posted: October 12, 2009 9:34 pm Eastern By Aaron Klein © 2009 WorldNetDaily TEL AVIV – President Obama’s newly confirmed regulatory czar defended the possibility of removing organs from terminally ill patients without their permission. Cass Sunstein also has strongly pushed for the removal of organs from deceased individuals who did not explicitly consent to becoming organ donors. In his 2008 book, “Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness,” Sunstein and co-author Richard Thaler discussed multiple legal scenarios regarding organ donation.

The Old Media wholly ignored the story, but one of the extremists that Barack Obama appointed as a so-called czar in his government had to step down when the full extent of his un-American radicalism was exposed on the Internet. Obama’s “green czar,” Van Jones, resigned when it was revealed how anti-American his rhetoric was not to mention his membership in a Marxist organization. But Van Jones isn’t the only far leftist that Obama has tried to foist on this country in places of influence.

President Obama with Anita Dunn, David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, and Robert Gibbs (via White House Flickr stream)My syndicated column today follows up on yesterday’s Fox News Derangement Syndrome post. Who has Obama stocked his communications shop with, you ask? Beltway flacks for corruptocrats. Meet some of the key people behind the White House war on Fox News. Birds of a feather…****Who’s behind the White House war on Fox News? by Michelle MakinCreators SyndicateCopyright 2009White House interim communications director Anita Dunn assumed the role of lead Fox News Channel-basher this weekend.

Where in the hell does Obama find these people? We had Van Jones, the communist/9-11 conspiracy wackjob Green Jobs Czar. Then Obama added Kevin Jennings, the homosexual statutory rape advocating Safe Schools Czar. Today we are going to take our first look at Obama’s Regulatory Czar, the wildest one so far, Cass Sunstein. We say first look because this guy is so far out of touch with what most sane and rational people think that we simply couldn’t cover him in one single article.

Where in the hell does Obama find these people? We had Van Jones, the communist/9-11 conspiracy wackjob Green Jobs Czar. Then Obama added Kevin Jennings, the homosexual statutory rape advocating Safe Schools Czar. Then we met Science Czar John Holdren, who favors government-decreed abortions and mandatory sterilization. Today we are going to take our first look at Obama’s Regulatory Czar, the wildest one so far, Cass Sunstein.