Barack Hussein Obama Report Card After 10 Months As The President of The United States

This just bears copying in its entirety.  Credit and thanks to Audacity Of Hypocrisy

 

Barack Hussein Obama Report Card After 10 Months As The President of The United States

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November 8, 2009

10.2%……..Unemployment Rate & Rising (Up 42% from Inauguration Day)
17.5%……..Total Underemployment + Unemployment Rate (Worst in 27 Years)
$787………..Billion “Stimulus” (95% Pork Barrel Spending, Waste & Corruption)
$700+………Billion TARP Bank Bailout (Crony Capitalism)
$1.6+……….Trillion 2009 Budget Deficit (6,000+ Political Earmarks)
$10+………..Trillion in additional deficit spending (Next 10 Years)
15%+………Hike in Individual Federal Income Tax Rates in 2010 (Bush Cuts Rescinded)
HOSTILE…Government Takeover of General Motors & Chrysler (ZERO ROI)
HOSTILE…Government Takeover of Sallie Mae (Student Loan Industry)
HOSTILE…$2.4 Trillion Government Takeover of Healthcare Industry (Socialism)
BOGUS……$3 Trillion Cap & Trade House Scam (Junk Science to Kill Capitalism)
40+…………..Radical, Anti-American, Far Left Czars (Zero Public Transparency)
WAR……….Declared Against 1st Amendment (Fox News, Talk Radio, Chamber of Commerce)
90+ Days….To respond to a critical request for Afghan Troops (Voting “Present”)
JUMPS…….To conclusion a white police officer “acted stupidly” vs. a black professor (With no factual knowledge)
PLEADS….“Don’t jump to conclusions” in Ft. Hood Muslim Terrorism Murders (Despite overwhelming evidence)
3 Minutes…Of “Shout Outs” BEFORE Robotically Commenting on Ft. Hood Massacre (Zero empathy perceived)
ACORN……Proven to be Obama’s criminal political ground team & strategic partner (RICO & National Fraud Investigations)
FUNDS…….Global Abortions with U.S. Taxpayer Funds (1st Presidential Act)
WEEKLY….Gala White House Parties with Audacious Spending (In Midst of Worst Global Recession Since 1929)
ATTACKS…By White House against Tea Party, Town Hall, 9-12, Healthcare Protestors (Normal, civil, patriotic citizens)
WAR………..Against Middle Class Taxpayers and their Values, Beliefs, Priorities, Dreams & Liberties
U.S.A.……….Is No Longer A Christian Nation
RACIAL…..Tensions at Historical Highs (So much for the post-racial climate pledge)
REFUSED TO ATTEND NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYERS…..Attended Gay and Lesbian Invitation instead

THE FIST PRESIDENT TO DECLARE THE MONTH OF JUNE AS GAY, LESBIAN AND TRANSGENDERS MONTH

With a scant 10 months in office;

35…………..Point Drop in Net Job Approval Rating (Largest in U.S. history)

What will you do in 2010?

Pondering

I have a problem.  Well, not really a problem so much as a dilemma.  Politics is important to me, but it’s such a broad category and encompasses so much, and there are a lot of important issues.  I go through my Reader and see that I’ve noted several different posts that I think I may like to blog about in the future.  I feel spread a little thin.  So many topics, so little time!  I feel like I need to pick just one or 2 and focus on those.  But for a political blog, specificity can often be a death-knell.  I don’t have time to put the hip-waders on for each subject.  How can I pick just a couple?  What’s my passion?  It depends on the day, I suppose.  It can be anything from education, AGW, immigration, taxes, 2nd Amendment, 1st Amendment, abortion, liberalism, racial issues, elections, Islam, conservatism, and on and on. 

Perhaps if I lumped all my favorite posts together onto a single page of links?  I’m thinking out loud here.  I’m not shooting to be the big centralized location for political bloggers, I just want to share my thoughts on different topics.  Sometimes I haven’t formed a solid opinion on something and am trying to sort it out.  To be sure, political opinion is something that is always in flux and evolving.  I know my core beliefs, but there are issues on which I go back and forth – like capital punishment. 

Whatever the case, information is key.  What I’ve learned – especially over the last year – is that bloggers too often get dismissed for being “nothing more than bloggers.”  Journalists boil down to being nothing more than bloggers with a better paycheck, often-times, and citizen journalists don’t get the credit they deserve.  I’ve seen bloggers dig up more information than “journalists” did, particularly in the case of Obama.  So, “journalist” doesn’t impress me. 

Scarborough questions journalistic integrity over Obama

Meteorologist Anthony Watts has far more credibility spread over his blog than a lot of “journalists” do who spread the “green gospel” far and wide with no scientific basis whatsoever.  He’s got a lot more credibility than James Hansen at GISS, who has been known to skew data just to advance his personal agenda.

Political stuff often depresses me.  I live in IL.  ‘Nuff said.   

I’m not sure what I’ll do about my indecision, but I did want to get it off my chest.  Maybe it’s just a matter of putting my own thoughts down, instead of being goaded by the blogs I read.  The big topic today is Blagojevich, but at the moment, I don’t really care about that.  He’s been the governor here for 6 years, and frankly, I’m more than a little sick of him.  The scandal now is, to me, par for the course and something I saw coming 6 years ago.  Meh.  As far as I’m concerned, “journalists” are way behind the curve on this one.  Where were they in 2002 when this guy was running for office, campaigning on “hope” and “change”?  Why, I guess they were at the same place they were at in 2008, when Obama was doing the same exact thing. 

I’ll get my thoughts sorted out, one way or another.  Having a blog helps in that regard.  Thanks for joining me on the journey. 

Merry Fitzmas!

Saw this over on Backyard Conservative, and it’s just too good not to pass along!

 

John McHugh of Green Oaks writes (to the tune of "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen"):

Wake up, old Rod Blagojevich, the Feds just rang your bell.
Just step outside … and take a ride … no time for extra gel.
They heard the tape … there’s no mistake …
This state’s half-way to Hell.
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy, save Illinois! Oh, tidings of comfort and joy.

How could you, Rod Blagojevich? This really has me beat.
It wasn’t nice … to put a price …. on that there Senate seat
The way you threatened Wrigley Field
How can the Cubs compete?
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy, save Illinois! Oh, tidings of comfort and joy.

Get real there, Rod Blagojevich, you’re much too smart a man
Remember what this state has done to Otto, George and Dan.
If Durbin doesn’t write a note
You’ll join them in the can.
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy, save Illinois! Oh, tidings of comfort and joy.

 

Mike Stawarski writes:
The Night Before Fitzmas

‘Twas the night before Fitzmas, all still at Rod’s house
While the Feds vetted transcripts: “That Blago’s a louse”.
A Senate seat’s empty, the temptation is great
To use the advantage and change Blago’s fate.

Rod’s plotting and scheming were thick in the air,
And Patti’s encouragement hung like a dare.
With Rezko convicted and Wyma on tape
Rod sensed a pressure he could not escape.

The dollar signs danced around in their heads,
With visions of firings for those who write ed’s.
And Patti in the kitchen and Rod in the den,
Had begun financial planning for 2010.

More rapid than eagles his ideas they came,
And he cursed and he shouted. His mind was aflame.
“Now, Tribune! Now, Cubbies! Now, Obama and pols!
This seat’s up for sale – for anyone…except moles.

“You’ll put up the money! You’ll pay, then you’ll play!
And meet me on my terms or I’ll snatch it away!”
After ranting and spinning, he twirled through the air.
(He then glanced at Patti, and asked ‘How’s my hair?’)

The Feds through the wire couldn’t believe what they’d heard.
Screwing sick kids for money – that’s just too absurd!
By selling the seat for the highest bid one would pay,
Rod fashioned a political form of e-Bay.

But Fitzgerald was ready – a warrant he swore,
The next morning, a phone call, a knock at the door.
“You’re joking!” Rod opined. “My conscience is clear!
They’ll love me again, from Troy to Kildeer!”

But the cuffs, they clicked soundly, and as he drove out of sight,
Illinoisians, they nodded – the Feds got it right.

(Trib cartoon)

Politics in IL

‘Nuff said.

 

IL politics, at its best!

Illinois politicians!  One in prison, one on the way, and one heading soon to a White House near you!! 

My Reader has been busy today and a majority of the posts coming in have been about the arrest of IL Governor Rod Blagojevich.  Illinoisans were dumb enough to elect this guy twice, but then, they’ve kept Daley in office for nearly 20 years now, along with all the other corrupt officials they keep putting back in office.  I saw an interesting bit of information on another blog today:

This makes for the fourth out of the last seven elected Illinois governors to be indicted since 1960 (Otto Kerner, Dan Walker, George Ryan, and Rod Blagojevich) … since 1972, 28 Chicago alderman have been convicted of crimes. If this number was extrapolated to the US House, it would be as if over 240 congressman had been indicted in the same period.
(The link at the Tribune does not include the last two Chicago alderman to be convicted, Arenda Troutman and "Fast Eddie" Vrdolyak.)

[link from Illinois Gov. Blagojevich, Chief of Staff, Arrested from The New Editor]

My husband made an interesting observation this afternoon.  “The last honest politician from Illinois was originally from Kentucky, and they ended up killing him.”  It certainly feels as though Lincoln was the last decent politician we had.  It just boggles the mind sometimes to think about how bad it is here, and that nothing ever gets done.  Yes, Blago was arrested today, but the only way things are really going to change around here is if the voters of this state decide once and for all to clean house, and vote out every single IL pol we have currently in office, both down in Springfield and Chicago.  Let’s face it, 10m of the 13m IL residents live in and around Chicago, so most of the crap is up here – we just send it down to Springfield.  Now, 2 governors in a row have been arrested.  When are the people of IL going to wake up and smell the corruption here? 

I was going to put in most of the links I’ve had come through my Reader today but decided against it.  You’ve probably seen enough today to fill you to puking about IL politics.  I will however, leave you with the words of John Kass, one of the few conservative columnists at the Chicago Tribune.  He’s worth the read.  Governor has one choice left: Sing?

Dialectic Effect

My favorite feline on the web, Conservative Cat, had a great post yesterday.  Here’s a tease:

To a liberal, progress is a one-way street. There’s no trial and error, and everybody wins: it’s what they call The Dialectic.

Barack Obama is the human incarnation of this Marxist pattern of thought. It doesn’t matter that he’s inexperienced, because you don’t need experience to make Haves give stuff to the Have-Nots, you just need power (preferably power without constitutional limits).

Read the article in its entirety here: The Amazing, Incredible, Stupendous, Wonderful, and Very, Very Nifty Dialectic Effect

Obama Flip-Flops

He ONLY says what he thinks you want to hear.  

His record speaks where his words fail. 

 

(h/t Turning right)

Illinois Constitutional Convention

From the Illinois Citizen’s Coalition:

 

Dear Illinois Citizen,

As you know, tomorrow will give us a once in a 20 year opportunity to change Illinois for the better.  Don’t waste this opportunity.  Help us pass the Convention vote.

Please post this to your blog if you have one.

Remember to tell 10 people to call 10 people.  Tell them to vote "Yes."  Let’s take our state back from the political class that has so badly damaged this fine state.

___________

Illinois citizens need not fear a Constitutional Convention

By Bruno Behrend

On November 4^th, Illinois citizens will have the opportunity to vote on the most important issue facing the state.  It is the referendum on the Constitutional Convention question. If Illinois citizens are interested in fixing their state, they should vote “Yes.”

            The constitutional convention process is 100% citizen-driven, and therefore promises to change the dynamics of Illinois politics.  Citizens call the convention. Citizens elect 2 delegates from each Senate district, and while the delegates will write up any proposed changes, it is the citizens who have the final say through the ratification vote.  That’s right, it is the citizens who ratify, not the politicians!

            Once citizens understand this important feature of the convention process, they will be far less likely to fall for the opponents’ weak and misleading arguments against a “Yes” vote.

            What are those weak and misleading arguments? Let’s start with the biggest whopper – that public employees might lose their pensions. One of the most serious flaws in the Illinois Constitution (and it has a lot of them) is that it guarantees the payment of pensions without guaranteeing the funding of pensions. This has lead to a political class that has provided government workers with unfunded benefits that will be left to future taxpayers to shoulder.  This is the reason Illinois has $106 billion in unfunded liabilities and unpaid bills.

            While a convention will almost certainly fix that flaw, Illinois citizens need to know that no one’s benefits can be cut one thin dime.  Anyone who tells you different is lying.  To be sure, mandating the funding of pension benefits as well as the payment will end the abuses engaged in by our political class. 

            Ironically, public employees should know that the most serious threat to their benefits comes from governments using bankruptcy laws to shed pension obligations.  This is already happening in some municipalities in California.  While it is unlikely that a state would declare bankruptcy, recent events in the financial markets should give one pause to reflect.  The fact is that a “no” vote more risky for public employees than a “yes” vote.

            Another weak argument used by the opponents of a convention is that “extremists” will derail the process.  This is an outright silly argument, as the delegates are elected from all 59 senate districts.  Even if citizens from one district or another elect a “single issue” delegate, that person is one of 118 people.   There is no way to “derail” a convention.  Many issues will be debated, but again, the voters must approve changes. 

            Some opponents argue that, “Springfield already has too much its plate.”  This argument exposes their weakest attribute – that it is all about them! A convention isn’t about what “Springfield has on its “plate.”  A convention is on the citizen’s “plate.”  Springfield, special interests, the two parties have all shown us that they are not up to the task of governing Illinois.  It is the citizens’ turn to change the way this state works, and a convention offers a nearly risk-free opportunity to do just that.  Vote “Yes” in November.

Bruno Behrend is the Co-founder of the Illinois Citizens Coalition and Co-author of Illinois Deserves Better, the ironclad case for an Illinois Constitutional Convention

McCain Funny on SNL!

 

McCain on SNL Video

 

I watched this video over on Backyard Conservative’s site.  Unfortunately, I’m not able to post shockwave or java videos on WordPress, so the link takes you to NBC. 

I have to tell you though, McCain having a sense of humor never really occurred to me.  I mean, yes, I figured he was human and shared funny stories and things like that with his close friends and family.  Duh.  But to see his comedic timing on such things as the SNL skits, and his delivery at the Alfred Smith dinner, I’m truly amazed and pleased.  I think it’s important for our leaders to be able to take a joke, and to poke fun at themselves too.  It’s not good to take yourself so seriously all the time.  (*cough* Barack)  A well developed sense of humor is a great and needed quality in a leader.  And McCain’s got it. 

Good thing too, since late night comedian’s jokes about McCain outnumber their jokes about Obama more than 7-1. 

I’m just sayin’.

Coal Industry WARNING!!

Ohio!  West Virginia!  Virginia!  Pennsylvania!  Indiana!  Kentucky!  ARE YOU LISTENING?  Obama, in his own words, wants to bankrupt the coal industry. 

He doesn’t care about your jobs.  He doesn’t care about increasing energy costs.  He has no problem with putting an entire American industry out of business.  Is that the kind of man you want for President? 

For more information, please click these links:

Obama: I’ll make energy prices “skyrocket”

Obama Promises to Bankrupt Coal Industry

Barack Wants to Bankrupt Coal

Obama’s brags his ‘Cap and Trade’ plan will ‘bankrupt’ coal plant builders