[lotuseclat79]

Helen Thomas hits White House for lack of transparency.

Veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas said the Obama administration's way of handling questions from the press and pre-scripting of town hall questions is "shocking." She says in all her years in the White House she's never seen anything like it.

-- Tom

[LANMaster]

Originally Posted by lotuseclat79

Helen Thomas hits White House for lack of transparency.

Veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas said the Obama administration's way of handling questions from the press and pre-scripting of town hall questions is "shocking." She says in all her years in the White House she's never seen anything like it.

-- Tom

Show me a single campaign promise that this Marxist President has kept, other than redistributing wealth (from the private sector to the government)

[LANMaster]

Here's change we can look forward to in the era of Hopey-Changey Obamaville
4 minute snip of the Louisiana Legislative Session

Reminds me of the waste of film movie, "Idiocity". We gotta fix the Ecominy.

[poochee]

FIRST THOUGHTS:UNEMPLOYMENT AT 9.5%
Posted: Thursday, July 02, 2009 9:21 AM
by Domenico Montanaro

*** Unemployment at 9.5%: Right before the long July 4th weekend, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this morning that the U.S. economy lost 467,000 jobs in June, and that the unemployment rate is now 9.5%, a 26-year high. Expect Republicans -- once again -- to pounce on these numbers and question the stimulus (but they’re also forgetting that the economy lost 3.1 million jobs in Bush’s last year in office; in Obama’s first five months, the total loss has been 1.9 million). Not surprisingly, of course, Obama will today talk about jobs, innovation, and the economy at 2:20 pm ET. These remarks will follow a closed-press meeting with business leaders. Later in the afternoon, the president departs to Camp David to begin his July 4th holiday.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/

Bureau of Labor Statistics Data:

http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/Surv..._view=net_1mth

[poochee]

July 2, 2009
Biden lands in Baghdad
Posted: 12:53 PM ET
CNN

(CNN) — Vice President Joe Biden has just landed in Baghdad, according to the Whte House and reporters traveling with him. During his two-day trip, he is slated to meet with Iraqi and U.S. military officials, and address U.S. troops.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...ds-in-baghdad/

[LANMaster]

Originally Posted by poochee

FIRST THOUGHTS:UNEMPLOYMENT AT 9.5%
Posted: Thursday, July 02, 2009 9:21 AM
by Domenico Montanaro

*** Unemployment at 9.5%: Right before the long July 4th weekend, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this morning that the U.S. economy lost 467,000 jobs in June, and that the unemployment rate is now 9.5%, a 26-year high. Expect Republicans -- once again -- to pounce on these numbers and question the stimulus (but they’re also forgetting that the economy lost 3.1 million jobs in Bush’s last year in office; in Obama’s first five months, the total loss has been 1.9 million). Not surprisingly, of course, Obama will today talk about jobs, innovation, and the economy at 2:20 pm ET. These remarks will follow a closed-press meeting with business leaders. Later in the afternoon, the president departs to Camp David to begin his July 4th holiday.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/

Bureau of Labor Statistics Data:

http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/Surv..._view=net_1mth

Puleeeze. Unemployment is expected to stay in the high 9's for a long time, and will likely get worse before it gets better.



Bush's unemployment numbers never rose over high 5's if I remember correctly

Lay off the Kool-Aid!

[LANMaster]

[poochee]

Originally Posted by LANMaster

Puleeeze. Unemployment is expected to stay in the high 9's for a long time, and will likely get worse before it gets better.



Bush's unemployment numbers never rose over high 5's if I remember correctly

Lay off the Kool-Aid!

Took quite a drop in 2008. The highest in 10 years according to the chart. I know you refer to Obama as the Messiah (blasphemy BTW) but it will take awhile to undue Mr Bushs' folly. What flavor of Rep Koolaid do you prefer?

[poochee]

July 2, 2009
Obama: Figures show recession slowing, despite job report
Posted: 02:58 PM ET
CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Barack Obama on Thursday called the nation's latest unemployment figures sobering, but said the economic recession is slowing.

"It took years for us to get into this mess, and it'll take more than a few months to get out," Obama said.Amen!

Excerpts from: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...te-job-report/

[poochee]

July 2, 2009
Franken to be sworn in Tuesday
Posted: 03:57 PM ET
From CNN Congressional Producer Ted Barrett

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Senator-elect Al Franken will meet with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and be sworn in Tuesday, according to Reid's office.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...rn-in-tuesday/

[poochee]

Moscow ready for better U.S. relations, Medvedev blogs
updated 1 hour, 45 minutes ago
By Jill Dougherty
CNN Foreign Affairs Correspondent

Story Highlights
•Russian president to meet with Obama next week in Moscow
•"We are ready to play our part" to improve relations, he says
•Medvedev: Nations must ally to fight terrorism, extremism, trafficking
•He says he hopes for "substantial and full-fledged talks" with Obama

MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- In an upbeat and optimistic video blog, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says that, after a period in which Russian-U.S. relations "declined to a level practically on a par with the Cold War era," Russia is "ready to play our part" to build a better relationship.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/...iref=polticker

[poochee]

Obama Reaches Out Before Vatican Trip
'Robust' Health Worker Protection Backed
By Jacqueline L. Salmon
Washington Post Staff Writer
Staff writer Rob Stein contributed to this report.
Friday, July 3, 2009

President Barack Obama said today that he still favors a "robust" federal policy protecting health-care workers who have moral objections to performing some procedures even though he plans to roll back a Bush administration rule that expanded such protection.

Speaking to eight religion reporters at the White House before his first meeting with Pope Benedict XVI next Friday, Obama sought to reassure Catholic health-care workers that they would not be forced to perform abortions and other procedures that violate the Church's teachings. Obama said he is a "believer in conscience clauses" and supports a new policy that would "certainly not be weaker" than the rules in place before the expansion late in President George W. Bush's administration.

Obama's comments were part of a broad interview that touched on issues including his hopes for his meeting with the pontiff, abortion and his struggle to choose a home church for him and his family.

Obama's trip to the Vatican will coincide with his participation in the Group of Eight summit, a meeting of leaders of major industrial nations, Wednesday to next Friday.

Several federal laws that have been in force since the 1970s protect health-care workers who do not want to participate in abortion and other procedures they find morally objectionable. The Bush administration said the new policy was designed to ensure those laws were enforced.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?hpid=topnews

[poochee]

New White House Office to Redefine What Urban Policy Encompasses
Agenda May Address Suburbs, Too
By Robin Shulman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 3, 2009

NEW YORK -- Once upon a time, when cities were poor and suburbs were rich, "urban policy" meant programs to alleviate poverty.

But in the last few decades, the cities and suburbs turned inside out. Poverty spread in the aging suburbs, as many encountered rising immigration, unemployment and crime. Wealth flooded once again to the cities, as urban living and enterprise came back in vogue. City and suburb started to look economically alike.

Now President Obama has created the Office of Urban Affairs, which seeks to redefine the word "urban." It aims to establish a policy agenda not just for inner cities, but for the suburbs that surround them, and it views these metropolitan regions as the country's economic engines.

"Part of our discussion as a country will be, 'What is urban?' " said Adolfo Carrión Jr., Office of Urban Affairs director. "We want to essentially tease out what the elements of a national agenda ought to be."

In his most definitive statements laying out the office's work, Carrión said in an interview that he hopes to spark a national conversation about urban needs. He said he plans to bring agencies together to change urban growth patterns and foster opportunity, reduce sprawl, and jump-start the economy.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?hpid=topnews

[poochee]

Huffpost - Obama's AP Interview: Michael Jackson, Gitmo, Affirmative Action And More
LOLITA C. BALDOR | July 2, 2009 02:47 PM EST | AP

Highlights of President Barack Obama's interview Thursday with The Associated Press:


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/0..._n_225245.html

[poochee]

THU, JULY 2, 6:40 PM EST
Jobs and Energy Innovation

The President met with a group of innovative energy leaders today to discuss job creation and long-term plans for strengthening the industry which will play a key role in America’s economic future. CEOs from both small and large energy companies shared their own ideas about how to increase productivity through innovation and technology. Finding new ways of producing, saving, and distributing energy is not only good for our energy independence, but also presents opportunities to create millions of jobs for Americans.
In his remarks, the President explained that energy is one of the main pillars in our new economic foundation, which is why the administration has put it at the forefront of the recovery effort:

THE REST AT: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Movin...gy-Innovation/