[StBernard] Fifteen Reasons I'm Already Tired of the Obama Era

[Westley Annis]

Fifteen Reasons I'm Already Tired of the Obama Era
by John Hawkins

15) The stimulus bill is the single largest spending 
bill in the history of humankind and yet, Obama is 
running around telling everyone how he's going to cut 
the deficit in a few years. Obama claiming to be 
deficit hawk -- that's like getting a lecture on hon-
esty from Bill Clinton.

14) ACORN, which engaged in large scale voter fraud 
during the 2008 election that won't be seriously in-
vestigated because Obama is in the White House, is 
now unapologetically breaking into houses across the 
country and encouraging squatters. Apparently, if 
you're a liberal group, you are above the law as long 
as the Obama administration is in the White House.

13) Despite the fact that America just conclusively 
proved it's not a racist nation by electing the first 
black President, race hustling bottom feeders like Al 
Sharpton and Julian Bond are making ridiculous charges 
of racism over an obviously non-racial cartoon. I 
thought the implicit promise of the Left was that 
electing Obama would put the race hustlers out of 
business?

12) Despite all the doomsday talk that we're hearing 
about how only European style socialism can save us 
from another depression, this recession isn't even 
close to being as bad as the one we endured in the 
early eighties. The utter lack of perspective about 
this topic is disturbing.

11) Barack Obama has already broken more campaign prom-
ises in a month than George Bush did in eight years. 
He's a living, breathing example of everything people 
hate about politics. He's habitually dishonest, will 
say anything if it benefits him politically, and he 
has already doled out more taxpayer money to his 
supporters via the stimulus bill than any politician 
in history.

10) Many of the same moderate Republicans who helped 
destroy the party over the last 4 years by pushing 
big spending, big government, pro-illegal immigration 
policies, and worst of all, John McCain, are once 
again declaring that the solution to our problems is 
to pursue many of the same policies that allowed the 
Democrats to take almost total control of D.C. "Thanks, 
but no thanks" for the "helpful" advice.

9) It's grotesque to see the worshipful treatment Obama 
is getting. It seems like his face is on the cover of 
half the magazines in the country, the press treats him 
with kid gloves, and they're naming schools after him. 
Meanwhile, he's just another sleazy politician who has 
yet to show an aptitude for much of anything other than 
reading off of a teleprompter.

8) In what is sure to be the first of many betrayals, 
Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe, and Susan Collins sold 
the Republican Party and the American people down the 
river on the stimulus package. The amazing thing was 
not that they caved, since it has come to be expected 
from those three, but that they prostituted themselves 
to the Democrats so cheaply. Had they simply held out 
for another week or two, they could have given the GOP 
much more leverage, shaved at least another hundred 
billion off the stimulus package, and could have acquired 
tens of millions more in goodies for their constituents.

7) The Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, is a tax cheat. 
Let me repeat that: Timothy Geithner, the guy who is the 
head honcho of the IRS, is a tax cheat. One more time, 
Tim Geithner, the guy who will be in charge when the 
Obama administration institutes what will probably be 
the single largest tax increase in American history, 
later in Obama's first term, is a tax cheat.

6) Despite the fact that the Big 3 automakers have been 
so thoroughly destroyed by the unions that work for them 
that they have to come begging for billions per month 
just to survive, the Democratic Party is getting ready 
to try to ram a card check bill through the Senate that 
would expand the presence of unions all across the 
country. That's like finding a turd in the punch bowl 
and just tossing it into the lemonade.

5) The single most successful program of the Clinton 
years, welfare reform, has already been essentially 
repealed with no debate via the stimulus package. It's 
part of Obama's attempt to radically transform the 
country before the American people fully realize what's 
happening. So far, judging by the lack of discussion 
over welfare reform, it seems to be working.

4) The very same government that destroyed the banking 
industry by forcing it to make loans to people who couldn't 
pay them back is now using the very crisis it created to 
try to nationalize the banking industry. This is like mak-
ing an arsonist the new fire chief after he burned down 
the fire station and 3-4 city blocks surrounding it.

3) Barack Obama is like Jimmy Carter on speed. In antici-
pation of the American people vomiting at the mere mention 
of his name in the future, he's trying to cram every 
single thing on the liberal wish list through so fast 
that our legislators don't even have time to read the 
bills that they're voting on.

2) We're literally going to spend hundreds of billions 
of dollars rewarding people for failing to pay their
mortgages. Granted, they're not going to admit to that,
 but when people who pay their mortgages on time get 
nothing while people who aren't paying their mortgages 
get a break, courtesy of their fellow citizens' tax 
dollars, what else can it be called other than a reward 
for irresponsibility?

1) Prior to the stimulus bill being passed, the Congress-
ional Budget Office estimated that the recession we're 
in would be over by the 2nd half of 2009. In other words, 
we're going to spend 1.2 trillion dollars on a stimulus 
bill and best case scenario, it could pull us out of a 
recession 3-6 months early. Of course, it seems more 
likely that all the government interference and massive 
increases in debt could extend, rather than shorten the 
length of the recession. If we're not out of it by 2010, 
we know who deserves the blame.