Official Obama Boo Boo Thread

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Arnie, Feb 3, 2009.

  1. Arnie

    Arnie

  2. 4. Leon Panetta.

    5. Hilda Solis.
     
    #12     Feb 5, 2009
  3. TGregg

    TGregg

    Shit, the Obama administration'll be able to pay for the massive stimulation package easy with all their people paying all the back taxes they owe.
     
    #13     Feb 5, 2009
  4. get the army in right now:mad:
     
    #14     Feb 5, 2009
  5. dave74

    dave74

    #15     Feb 5, 2009
  6. Arnie

    Arnie

    Today we have not one, but TWO!!

    http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/090305/geithner_choice_withdraws.html?.v=1

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's top pick to be his deputy withdrew from consideration Thursday, a setback for the agency as it confronts the worst financial crisis in decades.
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    Annette Nazareth, a former senior staffer and commissioner with the Securities and Exchange Commission, withdrew after several interviews and vetting of her financial history, a person familiar with Nazareth's decision said.

    http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/05/gupta.surgeon.general/index.html

    (CNN) -- Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent, has withdrawn his name from consideration as surgeon general of the United States, an administration official said Thursday

    Oh wait, here's another.........

    http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenumbers/2009/03/medical-bankrup.html

    President Obama’s kicking off his health care reform today in the worst possible way: with a mischaracterization of data.

    “The cost of health care now causes a bankruptcy in America every thirty seconds," Obama said at the opening of his White House forum on health care reform. The problem: That claim, based on a 2001 survey, is simply unsupportable.

    The figure comes from a 2005 Harvard University study saying that 54 percent of bankruptcies in 2001 were caused by health expenses. We reviewed it internally and knocked it down at the time; an academic reviewer did the same in 2006. Recalculating Harvard’s own data, he came up with a far lower figure – 17 percent.
     
    #16     Mar 5, 2009
  7. You can't make this stuff up.

    Conflict-of-interest issues grow for President Obama's new urban czar Adolfo Carrion

    BY Greg B. Smith
    DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

    Updated Wednesday, March 11th 2009, 9:15 AM

    President Obama's new urban czar, Adolfo Carrión, admitted Tuesday he has not paid an architect who designed a renovation of his Bronx home two years ago.

    That presents conflict-of-interest issues because at the time the architect was a key player in a Bronx development that needed approval from Carrión, then the Bronx borough president.


    In a statement to the Daily News, Carrión admitted he hadn't paid architect Hugo Subotovsky to design a porch and balcony for his City Island home.

    The renovation occurred more than two years ago. The last document filed with the city Buildings Department is dated Feb. 2, 2007. The work permit on the job expired that same month.

    Most documents stamped by Subotovsky on Carrión's house renovation date even further back, to October and November 2006, including a blueprint for the extensive work done on the front of Carrión's house.

    In his e-mailed response to The News, Carrión claimed the architect spent 51.5 hours on the renovation for a total bill of $3,627.50, "based on their usual rates." That works out to about $71 per hour.

    Carrión claimed he hadn't yet paid the bill on the two-year-old project because a "final survey" is not yet filed and approved.

    "As is his practice for projects of this kind, the architect will present his bill and be paid after the final survey is filed and approved, when his work is complete. I anticipate the survey will be completed, filed and approved shortly, at which time the bill will be presented and paid in full."

    Subotovsky did not return calls seeking comment. Carrión's response came five days after The News asked him for proof he paid the architect.

    If it's determined the architect performed the work free, the work could be considered an unreported gift that could put Carrión on the wrong side of the law.

    The White House again declined to comment Tuesday on Carrión's admission that he has yet to pay the architect or any other aspect of Carrión's unfolding problem.

    Carrión started his job as director of the White House Office on Urban Policy on March 2.

    In January 2007, at the same time Subotovsky was working on Carrión's house, a project he had designed called Boricua Village was submitted to Carrión's office.

    The project, which includes nearly 700 units of affordable housing and a 14-story tower for Boricua College, needed Carrión's recommendation to go forward.

    Two months later, in March 2007, Carrión recommended the project for approval to the City Planning Commission, which signed off on the project that May.

    gsmith@nydailynews.com

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/pol...nflictofinterest_issues_grow_for_presi-2.html
     
    #17     Mar 11, 2009
  8. FBI raids office of D.C. CTO, Obama appointee

    Federal agents this morning are searching the office Washington, D.C.'s Chief Technology Officer.

    The search is part of "an ongoing investigation," said a spokeswoman for the FBI's D.C. Field Office, Lindsay Gotwin, said. She declined to comment further on the raid of office, at 1 Judiciary Square.

    The outgoing Chief Technology Officer, Vivek Kundra, was appointed last week Chief Information Officer by the Obama administration. His last day at the city government office was February 4, a spokeswoman for D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, Leslie Kershaw, said. He was appointed to the Washington post in 2007.

    "We know the FBI is over there but that's all we know," said a staffer in the D.C. CTO's office, Mario Field, who was working from a separate location. Another source familiar with the raid said the FBI had sent all staffers other than senior executives home for the day. WTOP Radio reported that agents are searching the 9th and 10th floors of the building.

    A White House spokesman had no immediate comment.

    D.C. mayor's spokeswoman Kershaw said, "Our office has been alerted of FBI's being at CTO office, but we cannot comment until it's over and we get more details."

    http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0309/FBI_raids_office_of_DC_CTO_Obama_appointee.html
     
    #18     Mar 12, 2009