Concerning birth certificates — how reliable is Hawaii?, another listing of top 5 conservatives, Palin 2012?, Reid: “I don’t work for Obama,” Obama/Richardson scandal figure, Obama backs away from Panetta (and RedState.com’s thoughts on Panetta), infrastructure investment, “Senate Candidate 3,” and a signature move…

theobamafile.com points out the following:

Click the thumbnail to see a large copy of the beautifully printed Certificate of Hawaiian Birth. 

It belongs to Sun Yat-Sen, the Father of Modern China, who was born in China.

This Certificate of Hawaiian Birth, dated March 14, 1904, was issued after Dr. Sun signed a raggedy type-written statement affirming that he was born in Hawaii on Nov. 24, 1870.

Sun Yat-sen was born on November 12, 1866, to a peasant family in the village of Cuiheng, Xiangshan county , Guangzhou prefecture, Guangdong province (26 km or 16 miles north of Macau), not Hawaii, as this document affirms.

We know Maya Soetoro-Ng, Obama’s sister has a Hawaiian Certification of Live Birth too, and she was born in Jakarta, Indonesia.  You can be born anywhere and get one.

Blogger GOP Mike presents his listing of the “Top 5 Conservatives to lead us out of the Abyss for 2009…“.

Hotair.com reports that Gov. Sarah Palin isn’t “closing the door on 2012:”

From TheHill.com, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is now claiming the following:

Democrats must be “very, very careful” to avoid overreaching and will not rubber-stamp President-elect Obama’s policies, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday.

In an interview with The Hill, Reid said it is essential for Obama and congressional Democrats to work closely with Republicans in the new Congress. He added that 2009 is very different from 1993, the last time Democrats controlled both Congress and the White House.

Back then, Reid said, Democrats had controlled the House for decades and behaved as though the opposition did not exist. This time around, their recent stint in the minority would give them a commitment to bipartisanship.

 

“Even though we’re one short of 60 [senators in the Democratic Conference], I don’t want to ever have to depend on cloture,” Reid said. “We may have to do that, but it will be with the support of a few Republicans.”

Reid, who lambasted the GOP-led Congress for being a rubber stamp for President Bush, indicated that he will not bow to the Obama administration.

Reid stated, “I don’t believe in the executive power trumping everything… I believe in our Constitution, three separate but equal branches of government.”

“If Obama steps over the bounds, I will tell him. … I do not work for Barack Obama. I work with him,” he said.

There is now a report that Barack Hussein Obama got a big contribution from a Gov. Bill Richardson “pay-for-play” scandal figure:

That “culture of corruption” keeps rearing its ugly head with Democrats.  One of the key figures in the pay-for-play scandal that derailed Bill Richardson’s appointment to Barack Obama’s Cabinet also has connections to Obama himself.  David Rubin did the “pay” part of the equation in September, coughing up $30,000 for the general election:

President-elect Barack Obama took big money from a man at the center of a federal probe that has forced one of Obama’s top Cabinet picks to withdraw.

Financial records show the Obama campaign got more than $30,000 from California financier David Rubin, the target of an investigation into donations and possible “pay-to-play” deals involving New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, Obama’s pick for commerce secretary. …

In late September, Rubin attended an exclusive Los Angeles fundraiser for Obama, held at the Beverly Hills’ Greystone Mansion. Attendees gave tens of thousands of dollars which the campaign split between its own coffers, the Democratic National Committee and state-level campaign groups supporting Obama and Democratic candidates. The technique helps campaigns take in from individuals far more than the $2,300 maximum they are allowed to give to a single campaign fund.

Rubin’s money went to a joint Obama-DNC fund ($28,500), the DNC itself ($26,200), and to the Obama campaign ($2,300), according to the database of campaign donations at OpenSecrets.Org. News of the federal investigation into Rubin’s New Mexico dealings had broken less than three weeks earlier.

And who’s next? Now Barack Hussein Obama is backing off from appointing Leon Panetta for CIA director:

President-elect Obama, stung by criticism from California Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein and West Virginia Democrat Senator John Rockefeller backed away from the reported appointment of Leon Panetta to head the CIA:

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who this week begins her tenure as the first female head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said she was not consulted on the choice and indicated she might oppose it.

“I was not informed about the selection of Leon Panetta to be the CIA director,” Feinstein said. “My position has consistently been that I believe the agency is best served by having an intelligence professional in charge at this time.”

A senior aide to Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), the outgoing chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the senator “would have concerns” about a Panetta nomination.

Rockefeller “thinks very highly of Panetta,” the aide said. “But he’s puzzled by the selection. He has concerns because he has always believed that the director of CIA needs to be someone with significant operational intelligence experience and someone outside the political realm.”

RedState.com continues their thoughts on Panetta’s selection.

Meanwhile, here are some facts on government spending on infrastructure.

Is it possible that “Senate Candidate 3” was Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL)? And what about her earmarks?

Remember hearing about “Senate Candidate 3″ in the complaint filed by the U.S. District Attorney against Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich?

You may recall that “Senate Candidate 1″ was Barack Obama’s choice: his friend, the ultra-qualified Valerie Jarrett. [my link] And “Senate Candidate 5″ was Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., a man with a better sense of “fundraising” than Carolyn-esque entitlement. But who was “Senate Candidate 3″?

That would appear to be none other than Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL, what else?). Schakowsky and her family have a deeply troubling history with non-profits.

And finally, here’s a posting on an old Senate tradition that, apparently, Barack Hussein Obama just has to buck.

-Phil