Category: Corruption

Student-Loan Shenanigans

From The Wall Street Journal: President Obama and Congressional Democrats have been criticized for being antibusiness. But Washington is about to bestow a huge gift upon one particular type of business—the type that doesn’t pay taxes. Despite bipartisan opposition, this week the Democrats hope to use budget reconciliation in the Senate to ram through changes [...]

Obama Acknowledges ACORN Relationship in New Video

Before President Obama took office, and the House Oversight Committee Republicans exposed ACORN’s pattern of illegal activities, they were close…really close…how close exactly? Let’s go to the video tape!

Obama denounces hold tactic he used as senator

From The Washington Times: President Obama on Wednesday blasted Senate Republicans for using “holds,” a tactic that delays considering nominees — even though as a senator he used the technique to block several of President George W. Bush’s appointments. Speaking to Senate Democrats at their annual retreat, Mr. Obama complained that Republican objections have created [...]

Obama’s Fuzzy ‘Job-Creating’ Math

From GOPUSA.com: Ok, class… today’s lesson will be on mathematics. No moans and groans from the audience, please. This is an exciting, “new” math. We’ll call it Obama’s Fuzzy Math or OFM. OFM is quite fascinating. In most math problems if you subtract from a number, the result is a smaller number. But not with [...]

Is Obama’s $789 billion buying votes instead of jobs?

From World Net Daily: A pair of studies analyzing U.S. jobs and the effects of President Obama’s American Reinvestment and Recovery Act suggest the so-called “stimulus” bill has boosted partisan interests far more than employment figures. White House projections in February claimed the $789 billion in spending would “create or save 3.5 million jobs over [...]

First Lady Requires 26 Attendants

This is from back in August, but I somehow missed it until now. I figured it was worth posting late. From CanadaFreePress.com: No, Michele Obama does not get paid to serve as the First Lady and she doesn’t perform any official duties. But this hasn’t deterred her from hiring an unprecedented number of staffers to [...]

Obama cabinet members make frequent trips to Nevada

From GOPUSA.com: WASHINGTON (AP) — The travel industry may be hurting in Las Vegas these days but not for lack of visits from members of President Barack Obama’s Cabinet. Attorney General Eric Holder was the ninth Cabinet member to visit Nevada during the past six months. Holder and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., toured [...]

‘Unearthed! Obama’s twisted ACORN roots’

From World Net Daily: While ACORN remains riddled in scandal, lawmakers have voted to cut off federal funding to the group, the U.S. Census Bureau has severed ties to the organization – and the White House has blasted its behavior as “unacceptable.” But just how extensive are President Obama’s personal ties to ACORN? The following [...]

Billions In Federal Aid Go to Areas That Backed Obama in ’08

From USA Today Billions in aid go to areas that backed Obama in ’08 By Brad Heath, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — Billions of dollars in federal aid delivered directly to the local level to help revive the economy have gone overwhelmingly to places that supported President Obama in last year’s presidential election. That aid — [...]

Pay-to-Play? Big Obama Campaign Donors Get Ambassadorships

From GOPUSA.com: Big Obama campaign donors get ambassadorships By ROBERT BURNS Associated Press June 26, 2009 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday selected for ambassadorships in Europe two of his presidential campaign’s biggest fundraisers, extending a pattern of rewarding political supporters. Obama chose career foreign service officers to head U.S. embassies in Latvia, [...]

Obama’s “Pay Czar”

From GOPUSA.com: Obama’s ‘Pay Czar’ — Welcome to the Twilight Zone Posted by Bobby Eberle June 10, 2009 at 7:15 am We sure have seen a lot in the nearly five months that Barack Obama has been president. Who could have imagined that the government would be controlling certain financial institutions? Who would have thought [...]

And Yet Another Tax-Cheating Obama Nominee

From RightWingNews.com: It’s actually become rather routine (From The New York Times) President Obama’s choice as chief of protocol for the State Department, a position that carries the status of an ambassadorship, did not file tax returns for 2005 and 2006, errors she corrected last November. Surprising, eh? As a sidebar, remember who the NY [...]

Department of Homeland Security Targets Conservatives & Obama Critics

This very well may be the scariest thing you will ever read. From Michelle Malkin: Confirmed: The Obama DHS hit job on conservatives is real By Michelle Malkin  •  April 14, 2009 12:01 AM Yesterday, Roger Hedgecock and the Liberty Papers posted an unclassified DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis report titled: Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and [...]

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s Tax Evasion

Obama’s “change we need” continues to disappoint Obama-voters around the country. His appointee to Treasury secretary was Timothy Geithner, a proven tax-cheat, who is now in charge of the IRS. How logical! However, the media has told us time and time again that it was an “honest mistake.” Oh really? Interesting that they make such [...]

More Obama Lies: Emanuel Pushed Blagojevich to Appoint Obama Loyalists

Still don’t think that Obama is lying about anything? Concerning this whole Blagojevich scandal, Obama first said that he had “no contact with the governor or his office,” then soon afterward said that he had no “direct contact” only to later say that he is “absolutely certain” that he nor his team had any “inappropriate [...]

Just a taste of what we can expect for the next four years

From NewsMax.com: Illinois Scandal’s Weight Grows on Obama December 17, 2008 CHICAGO – The scandal surrounding the arrest of the corruption-tainted governor of Illinois continued to weigh on president-elect Barack Obama Tuesday as he faced questions over the degree of contact his staff had with Rod Blagojevich. Obama has said he is “absolutely certain” that [...]

“Questions Remain” – Video highlight of Obama’s relationship and responses to Blagojevich

A short and well-put-together video that highlights the suspicious responses by Obama to the ongoing Illinois Governor Blagojevich scandal.

Obama Caught in Lie Regarding Illinois Governor Corruption

If you have yet to hear, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was arrested for attempting to sell Barak Obama’s empty senate seat to the highest bidder. Obama quickly came out to deny any connection or knowledge of the matter saying on Tuesday, “I had no contact with the governor or his office, and so I was [...]

Illinois Governor Arrested Trying to sell Obama’s Senate Seat on “Political Corruption Crime Spree”

From Yahoo! News: CHICAGO – Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested Tuesday on charges he brazenly conspired to sell or trade President-elect Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat to the highest bidder as part of what federal prosecutors called a “political corruption crime spree.” Prosecutors did not accuse Obama himself of any wrongdoing. Obama said he [...]