President Barak Obama’s first State of the Union speech has generated some heat overnight. Three  particularly telling observations are generating some buzz.

Supreme Court Rebuke

From David A. Patten on Newsmax:

Obama objected to the Supreme Court’s ruling last week that the First Amendment does not allow Congress to restrict the rights of corporations and unions to run political advertising. The president said the decision reverses 100 years of legal precedent.

Justice Samuel Alito (neat the left of the video below) could clearly be seen shaking his head in response, and apparently mouthing the words “not true,” according to several correspondents. Soon a video of the incident was posted on several sites on the Internet.

Though President Obama prefaced his remarks by saying, “with all due deference to the separation of powers,” his remarks were a clear departure from that deference.

“You Lied!”

RedState’s Erick Erickson, in a post reminiscent of Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress last year, says President’s Obama lied by claiming that he’s limiting lobbyist influence in Washington. Obama:

““To close that credibility gap we must take action on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue to end the outsized influence of lobbyists; to do our work openly; and to give our people the government they deserve. That’s what I came to Washington to do. That’s why – for the first time in history – my Administration posts our White House visitors online. And that’s why we’ve excluded lobbyists from policy-making jobs or seats on federal boards and commissions.”

There must be some lawyerly word mincing going on in Obama’s statement because you can’t swing a dead cat in the Obama administration without hitting a lobbyist on the taxpayer payroll.

Erickson uses a list from Michelle Malkin’s HotAir to count the lobbyists:

• Eric Holder, attorney general nominee, was registered to lobby until 2004 on behalf of clients including Global Crossing, a bankrupt telecommunications firm [now confirmed].
• Tom Vilsack, secretary of agriculture nominee, was registered to lobby as recently as last year on behalf of the National Education Association.
• William Lynn, deputy defense secretary nominee, was registered to lobby as recently as last year for defense contractor Raytheon, where he was a top executive.
• William Corr, deputy health and human services secretary nominee, was registered to lobby until last year for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a non-profit that pushes to limit tobacco use.
• David Hayes, deputy interior secretary nominee, was registered to lobby until 2006 for clients, including the regional utility San Diego Gas & Electric.
• Mark Patterson, chief of staff to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, was registered to lobby as recently as last year for financial giant Goldman Sachs.
• Ron Klain, chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, was registered to lobby until 2005 for clients, including the Coalition for Asbestos Resolution, U.S. Airways, Airborne Express and drug-maker ImClone.
• Mona Sutphen, deputy White House chief of staff, was registered to lobby for clients, including Angliss International in 2003.
• Melody Barnes, domestic policy council director, lobbied in 2003 and 2004 for liberal advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the American Constitution Society and the Center for Reproductive Rights.
• Cecilia Munoz, White House director of intergovernmental affairs, was a lobbyist as recently as last year for the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group.
• Patrick Gaspard, White House political affairs director, was a lobbyist for the Service Employees International Union.
• Michael Strautmanis, chief of staff to the president’s assistant for intergovernmental relations, lobbied for the American Association of Justice from 2001 until 2005.

UPDATE: The Washington Post also chimed in on the “transparency” of the Obama administration this morning. “Info released under Obama transparency order is of little value, critics say”

Declaration of War

President’s Obama’s speech was a declaration of war on the free market according to another Erickson post at RedState.

Obama said, “Now, the true engine of job creation in this country will always be America’s businesses.”

But prior to that, he said, “Because of the steps we took, there are about two million Americans working right now who would otherwise be unemployed. 200,000 work in construction and clean energy. 300,000 are teachers and other education workers. Tens of thousands are cops, firefighters, correctional officers, and first responders. And we are on track to add another one and a half million jobs to this total by the end of the year.”

Review the list. Every job listed is either a government job or a job so connected to government that it would not exist but for government. The clean energy industry? It would not exist, but for government subsidy. Construction? He is talking about roads and other infrastructure — jobs that will go away once the project is done and the whole way through is dependent on the government.

All of these are government jobs.

Real Clear Politics has the video of Obama’s obs claims and Senator Harry Reid’s yawning response.