Once again, the Obama Administration is being questioned about the stimulus report thast they put out last week. After much fanfare in which the White House bragged about the number of jobs “saved or created,” they had to reverse themselves when news organizations began digging tnto the numbers. What they found was that the numbers were not only vastly overstated, but that there is a concerted effort by the Obama Admimistration to fool the public. this tells me that Barack Obama is in over his head. If he thinks that the American people are drones who accept everything that comes from the White House press room, he doesn’t know the American people at all. He apparently thought that was the case when he allowed Ed Pound, communications director for the administrations website, recovery.com, to put our ridiculsously false claims about the impact of stimulus funds in different congressional districts.

And ridiculous might be too light a discription of what these numbers show. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Ariz), noted in “The Hill” newspaper, that the report showed his state of Arizona has 86 congressional districts. Uh, not even close. And to make matters worse, the report showed that the 86th district recieved over $50 million and created or saved 106 jobs! In a district titled “District 00,” the stimulus cash totalled about $600,000 and a whopping 8 jobs were reported. It would be bad enough if thesse numbers were real, but there not. When being questioned by Rep. Issa in a congressional hearing, Pound was asked if he could certify that the numbers in the report were accurate, Pound was left stammering, “No, I cannot make that certification.”

One glaring example of the Obama administrations intent to decieve us was that one recipient of stimulus funds, Head Start, was questioned about the 317 jobs it reported as being “created or saved.” While appearing on ABC News, Head Start’s Chris Whitley had to admit that the jobs were bogus. It turned out that 317 regular imployees recieved a 2.3% raise, using the stimulus cash. Whitley made matters worse by saying, “…it wasn’t illegal, immoral or unethical. And they told me to do it,, so I did it.” Who told him to do it? Someone is telling these employers to lie about jobs “created or saved.” I blogged back when this whole “saved or created” crap was introduced by the Obama administration that it would result in lies and distortions.

This week, the Government Accounting Office reported that 58,000 jobs reported by the administration were bogus. The companies that they sited hadn’t even spent their stimulus money yet. That’s 10% of the jobs Obama claims were saved.

The Obama team is calling these “reporting errors.” I call them distortions…lies. This administration is not to be trusted. The country needs to wake up and realize that Barack Obama is in over his head. He believes the hype about being a savior, one who can do no wrong. But the rest of us are beginning  to see the truth. And it gets uglier everyday.

President Obama campaigned on a platform of change, saying that the status quo, which included back room deals, secrecy, and hidden agendas that he said prevailed in the Bush Administration, would be a thing of the past. All we had to do was elect him, and he would see to it. One of his favorite terms was that he would bring “transparency” to the legislative process. Americans would finally have the opportunity to see how their government operated in the open. He was going to throw the curtains open. We have already had the chance to see how that works. He has surrounded himself with “czars” that did not have to be questioned by the Congress, and he did not need to introduce them to the American public. And these are the people who will be making policy recommendations to Obama. So much for operating in the open.

Another thing that Obama promised was that there would be no more “politization of science,” which he accused the Republicans of doing when debating global warming in the waning Bush years. He claimed that conservatives were making facts up in order to prove that the warming trend was predictable and natural. But now that things have changed. It’s the global warming crowd in Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency that are working to keep current science out of the debate.

Dr. Alan Corbin, a 35 year employee of the agency, recently wrote a 100 page report that simply questioned some of the science behind global warming claims. He noted that the EPA’s most recent position  on global warming was the basis for the controversial Cap and Trade legislation that recently passed the House of Representitives and is awaiting action in the Senate. The EPA’s “science” turned out to be three years old, and there are four areas where it is flat out of date. The document used by the House was known as the Technical Support Document, and Corbin pointed out the flaws in it.

1. During the past 11 years, the global average temperature has dropped, while carbon emissions have gone up. Carbon emissions are what the EPA and other global warming disciples believe cause the warming.

2. It was determined that the concensus of climate scientists have abandoned their idea that global warming has caused the number and intensity of hurricanes to increase.

3. The concensus of climate scientists saying that global warming has caused Greenland to lose part of it’s ice cover has collapsed.

4. The EPA’s Technical Suport Document was formulated before the current worldwide recession hit, with dramatic cuts in carbon emissions.

Corbin’s boss at the EPA, Al McGartlend, was given a copy of the report. He immediately e-mailed Corbin with a command that forbid him from “entering into direct communication with anyone outside the agency.” In a later e-mail, Corbin was told that since the EPA had already determined to issue it’s “findings,” that Corbin must “cease all inquiries in climate science.” This was his job…and he was told to stop doing it. I’m certain the EPA Secretary was totally unaware of this. He could not have known that there were scientists who honestly disagreed with the theory of global warming within his agency. Surely he would have abided by the President’s wishes to allow this report to be followed up on and reported.

So I would ask the president what happened to transparency and change in Washington. And how about the ending of the politicization of science? Does it only count if it empowers your agenda? The truth is, that Barack Obama has encourages lies, secrets, and the status quo. This is just one of many issues that have been dealt with behind closed doors. The Congress hammered out the final Health Care Bill behind closed doors, without press coverage of any kind. In fact, I don’t remember a time when there were more “closed door meetings” in Congress than there have been this year. With the Health Care Bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was forced to put the bill online for 72 hours so that citizens could read it. She was brought along kicking and screaming on allowing that opportunity for “open government.” But at the end of 72 hours, the bill was taken down and parts were re-written, so that what the American people read was nothing like the final bill. All done with the encouragement of Presidient Obama. This leaves me numb and angry. There is no change, and there is no transparency. We were lied to. I’m proud to say that I, for one, didn’t buy it in the first place. But alot of us did. I’m hoping that they are honest enough to admit it and work to bring real change and honest leadership to Washington. In 2012, we have a chance to do the right thing and vote the liars out. I pray we take it.

President Obama says calm down and don’t jump to conclusions. He doesn’t want anyone to think that Major Nidal Hasan, the alleged shooter that killed 12 soldiers and a civilian at Ft. Hood could be a Muslim terrorist. I’m assuming that he was aware that the shooter had shouted “Allahu Akbar”, or “Allah is Great” as he opened fire. But no matter. We aren’t allowed to read the handwriting on the wall and come to our own conclusions.

In the days ssince the shootings, we have learned that Hasan had a history of speaking out against the United States and the war in Iraq. Earlier this year, he was reported to have said, “Muslims should stand up and fight the aggressor.” Who was he talking about? Well he was reportedly angry about the possibility of being deployed to Iraq and made numerous comments about Muslims fighting Muslims. During a Power Point presentation to fellow psychiatrists last spring that was entitled, “The Koranic World View as it Relates to Muslims in the the U.S. Military,” Haswan wrote, “It is getting harder and harder for Muslims to morally justify being in a military that seems constantly engaged against fellow Muslims.”

Further, we now know that Hasan was communicating with a former imam from the Washington DC suburb of Falls Church, where he was the “spiritual advisor” of two of the 9/11 hijackers. He left the country in 2002 and is believed to be in Yemen. He has posted an online statement that praised Hasan in the Ft. Hood shootings, using the same reasoning as the shooter, that he couldn’t stand being in a military that fought against his own Muslim brothers. Security experts have described him as “radical, Islamic fundamentalist who has been very supportive of terrorists in the past.”

Unfortunately, Hasan is not the first U.S. Muslim soldier to turn against our country. According to an editorial in Investors Business Daily, there have been several more. In March 2003, Sgt. Hasan Akbar fraggewd 17 fellow soldiers, killing two. He opposed the killing of fellow Muslims, saying, “You guys are coming into our countries, and you’re going to rape our women and kill our children.”

* In 2008, Navy Signalman Hassan Abujihaad was convicted of tipping off al-Quida to battle group movements in the Persian Gulf.

* In 2002, Army Reservist Semi Osman was arrested for providing material support to al-Quida. He plead guilty and agreed to testify against two other terror suspects.

* Army Sgt. Ali Mohamed was arrested for stealing military secrets and for al-Quida and helping plan bombings at three U.S. embassies in 1998.

Now, the political correctness crowd would tell you that it’s just plain predjudicial and wrong to spend even a minute looking into the past of recruits who are Muslim and may have a history of sitting under the teachings of anti-American imams, as Hasan did. Spending any time at all interviewing them to get their views on fighting against fellow Muslims would be profiling, and we know that we can’t do that. And, apparently, we can’t discharge Muslim soldiers who have actually spoken out against the United States military, of which he is a member.

I have heard all sides on this issue, from those who say remove all Muslims from the U.S. military, to those who would choose to continue the status quo and have no special consideration for Muslim soldiers. Although the president urges us not to jump to conclusions, the new information that has come out over the last few days insists that we do recognize the threat that may exist. I for one believe we must begin to look closely at those who we allow to have access to military secrets and positions of authority in our military. There have been thousands of Muslims who have served our country proudly and honorably. But the list of those who have chosen to put their religion ahead of country is growing. And now is the time for the Penagon to get serious about protecting it’s soldiers.  Better late than never.

It turns out that Nancy Pelosi’s victory dance is about to be cut short. It won’t be long before a backlash against her is in full swing. What was she thinking? She had to know that the Senate would shred her Health Care Bill to rid it of the public option and most of her most outlandish punishments for taxpayers who don’t bow down to the federal government and buy their overpriced insurance. And now she will be left with a group of angry and vulnerable Democrats who went out on a limb to vote for her monstrosity and are now faced with an angry electorate.

The Senate will surly be quick with the scissors, cutting this bill up and hopefully getting back to the real solutions to the high cost of insurance. In the first place, the president’s public comments during the campaign indicated he wanted to make it more affordable and accessible, not mandatory and more expensive. It has become obvious that the goal all along has been to drive the private insurance market out of business with a government program. By adding expensive new rules on private insurers, some needed, the government would be able to set their own rates so low that the private companies would be unable to compete, and eventually would be forced into bankruptcy. So when Obama says that if you like your current insurance plan, you can keep it…he’s lying. And he knows it. How can you keep something that goes out of business?

So hopefully the Senate will see the handwriting on the wall and will make sense of the real issues of making insurance affordable. Joe Lieberman has already declared that any bill with a public option will draw his opposition. He sees through the games being played in the House bill and is prepared to hold the whole thing up until it’s taken out. Thank God for Joe. There are plenty of vulnerable Democrats in the Senate who cannot be seen as supporting the House bill, and who will be listening closely to their constituants. Let’s be vocal. Let’s see democracy work.