), are rising and we're having to pay for them with a dollar that isn't worth as much anymore, so naturally, it takes more dollars to buy what used to cost fewer dollars just 2 years ago. Didn't take long for the DC Cabal to ruin the country. I've always asked, what's the purpose of these "conservatives" in writing about how conservative they are while raking Trump across the coals, all the while telling folks how wonderful they are? The only thing really wonderful about these turncoats is that they have missed the whole message of Trump. They've also missed the whole message of the presidency since 2009 when the then-current president said,
I won
This was apparently Obama's new way of doing business. It was Obama's way of doing business to have one catastrophe after another. A list at the end of this post listing just some of the problems, catastrophes, and other calamities. Taking them one alone, doesn't seem like much, but there are 75 of them, and more probably that I can find, and the cumulative effect is a simmering, maddening crowd. This list adds a lot toward the explanation of the election of Trump and how his first term was so successful, much to the chagrin of the "establishment" who have only grown more acrimonious, distrustful, and repugnant with every day the "establishment" is in office.
Reading through just a few of these indiscretions, is it any wonder that the American voting public, which has always been right of center, is weary of any promise from any Democrat and/or established Republican and is looked on with short-tempered and impatient reactions with legislators and political leaders over the movement of the government away from a government is of the People, by the People, and for the People.
This is what these so-called conservatives don't get. They can rail all they want in their ivory-tower cubicles about how this or that awful thing or act or heaven forbid nasty Tweet, and miss the whole point. The working Jane/Joe is working harder for less and having the government bearing down their back with more regulations, fines, fees and anything else the government can think of that would make life harder for the working class.
Trump tapped into that frustration and answered it by abolishing regulations, relieving taxes, opening up domestic oil and gas exploration (reducing the cost of doing business), encouraging and rewarding domestic corporations to relocate to the US making the jobless rate and some ridiculously low rates. BTW, that rate had been reconfigured because, during Obama's admin, the "old way" of computing the rate had been readjusted to make 14% unemployment look like 8% unemployment, and Trump just kept the same rate, which showed that Blacks and Latinos were having the lowest unemployment EVER in the history of the country.
Trump also decided not to declare war on anyone else, brought imprisoned Americans home, and scared the daylights out of our adversaries, as he used the left's impression of him (that Trump didn't know what he was doing and could mistakenly set off a bomb and not know it), to his advantage and exploited it with foreign leaders so that they were as frightened of him as the libs were. This resulted in Nordstream being shut down (Russians couldn't get $$$ for their oil & gas, Europe wasn't dependent upon Russia for fuel to run their economy), American gas and oil remained unreasonably low-priced, Rocketman didn't set off any rockets during the Trump Admin, the Chinese had a tariff on American produce removed, the Russians were fit to be tied, cause they couldn't do anything right, killed one of the top Al-Queda leaders, and basically ran the US to benefit the US because he was the leader of the US - what a novel idea.
I'm not the only one who thinks this. Here are a series of articles from a variety of sources:
- Bobby Jindal with a Commentary for the Wall Street Journal (this is behind a pay wall, but in Oklahoma County, sign into your account at the Oklahoma County Library site and go to the database, (if you don't have an account, you will need to call the library and have them help you set one up. You'll get a sign-on code to use to sign on). Then click under "W" and scroll to Wall Street Journal. Enter the title of the article, and poof - you get to see it for free!!!)
- From The Guardian, a British publication and I consider all British press lefty, so this should be have more weight than a right-wing publication
- The Why publication (an arm of NPR, so that tells you how objective it is...NOT!), starts out with "One of Obama’s most remarkable achievements has been to infuriate voters on both the Left and the Right — the Left, for not going far enough; and the Right, for going even farther than they feared."
Yep, and that just about tells it all - The Daily Wire has a list that is a little disingenuous, but each point does make a point - that Trump is the "negative" of Obama (that is if you see Obama as the positive). One "point" suggests that Obama is elitist, and to pick the opposite is to speak to the "blue-collar" worker. My comment is "What's wrong with that - that is mostly who America is - this is where the bulk of the votes are - duh!
As promised, here is a very general list of Obama messes, mistakes, catastrophes, and other disasters to dot his presidency. The biggest "mess" in Trump's presidency was a phone call with Ukraine and Russiagate, both of which amounted to nothing. Even out of office, instead of concentrating on leading the country and being prosperous (heaven forbid that win an election), it's all about Anti-Orange-Man, so that if Orange-Man did all that's good, then that means the libs are for all that's bad - even if it's bad - it's against Trump which is more important than being bad for the country and its citizens. Good Grief - what's wrong with this picture?!
- $6 trillion in new national debt after Obama promised to decrease the deficit
- Obamacare is an incredibly convoluted bill that exponentially increases the federal government's control over our personal lives
- Disabling the credit card verification system on its Website donations, allowing anyone from any foreign county to donate to Obama campaign, in direct violation of several laws.
- Billions of taxpayer dollars gambled on "green companies like Solyndra, NextEra, Ener1, Solar Trust - all of which went bankrupt.
- An intentional refusal to enforce federal immigration laws
- Spent 20 years listening to a racist anti-American pastor, who he called his mentor. Now Obama pretends that Wright doesn't exist.
- Increased the percentage of Americans dependent on food stamps to unprecedented levels (now over 15% of the nation’s population).
- Militarily intervened in Libya in 2011 without the Congressional approval required by the War Powers Act — technically an impeachable offense.
- Handed out over 1,200 waivers to politically connected donors exempting them from the onerous requirements of Obamacare
- Greatly expanding the number of unaccountable “czars,” which essentially amounts to unilaterally adding new federal departments with no congressional oversight
- Using taxpayer dollars to bail out the private pension funds of autoworkers’ unions at GM & Chrysler
- Illegally ending the welfare-to-work requirements passed by Congress.
- Doling out $800 billion in stimulus cash for “shovel-ready” jobs that didn’t exist — the money just evaporated with no measurable economic benefit.
- Alienating and isolating Israel, our strongest ally in the Middle East.
- Apologizing to Islamists and terrorists for offending them.
- Under Obama’s watch, for the first time in history America’s credit rating was downgraded, due to his poor economic policies.
- Stopped American oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, allowing other nations with worse environmental records to drill instead — thereby managing to both weaken our economy and damage the environment simultaneously.
- Proposed in 2008 to intentionally bankrupt the coal industry — and now lies to voters and workers in coal-producing regions about his true intent.
- Pretends to be concerned about skyrocketing energy prices, when in fact he vowed to increase them on purpose (so as to make alternative energy schemes more competitive.)
- During the 2008 campaign, Obama repeatedly promised that if he was elected “No family making less than $250,000 will see any form of tax increase.” This promise was broken over and over again once he was elected.
- Cash for Clunkers, which doled out taxpayer money to anyone who wanted to replace their old cars, but which mostly only ended up subsidizing the puchase of foreign-made cars by people who could have afforded them on their own anyway; meanwhile, the traded-in cars were all destroyed, creating a shortage and thereby increasing the cost of used cars, hurting the pocketbooks of poor people.
- Violated the U.S. Constitution by authorizing assassinations and drone strikes to kill American citizens abroad — without due process.
- Was caught on a “hot mike” promising the President of Russia that he would cave in to their demands for a weaker missile shield — after he was re-elected and no longer had to keep up the pretense that he sought to defend America.
- When states voted to enforce the federal immigration laws which the federal government refused to enforced, Obama sued to stop them.
- Blocked continued construction of the Keystone Pipeline, thereby intentionally reducing energy resources for the US and forcing Canada to sell more of its oil to China.
- Repeatedly changed his position on gay marriage over the years, depending on what was politically expedient at the moment and which intended audience he was addressing.
- Before he was president, Obama staunchly opposed raising the national debt limit — but once elected, he insisted that it be raised.
- When giving a 2009 speech in France that he must have assumed Americans would never hear, he described the United States as “arrogant” and “dismissive” (while also criticizing Europe elsewhere in the speech).
- When states tried to stop election fraud with voter ID laws, Obama sued to prevent them from doing so.
- Instructed Attorney General Eric Holder to stonewall any investigation into the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panthers.
- Vowed to end the influence of lobbyists in Washington, but under Obama’s watch their influence has only increased.
- Aided and abetted the “Arab Spring” which deposed existing secular governments across North Africa, leading to a regional power vacuum which was filled by Al Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood, and other hardline Islamists
- Refused to provide assistance or support the earlier secular Iranian democracy uprising, allowing them to be crushed by the Islamic fundamentalist Iranian regime.
- In his first months in office, Obama bowed to the king of Saudi Arabia, the president of China, the Emperor of Japan, and President of Mexico, among others.
- Ordered NASA to make one of its top priorities not space exploration or scientific research but “Muslim outreach.”
- Used Obamacare as a pretext to greatly increase the size and power of the IRS (which was given 16,000 new agents and additional mandates to penalize taxpayers for noncompliance).
- Used the IRS to harass conservative businesses.
- In the GM bailout, he illegally shortchanged investors who according to bankruptcy laws were first in line to be recompensed; instead, he gave their share to the unions.
- Shut down oil drilling in the US, but then turned around and lent $2 billion to Brazil to support their government-controlled oil-drilling effort — and then promised the US would become one of Brazil’s biggest oil customers.
- Sued Boeing in an effort to control where businesses could locate, kowtow to the unions, and block the creation of 1,000 jobs in South Carolina, a right-to-work (i.e. no forced unionization) state.
- Sent insulting form letters to the families of dead SEALs.
- Hosted at the White House many Islamist members of groups associated with Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, etc.
- Told small business owners nationwide in a 2012 speech that “you didn’t build that” — implying that they should not claim credit for their own success, since taxpayers (i.e. themselves and other business owners) had funded the national infrastructure.
- Insulted the British people by rudely returning to them a bust of Churchill which previously had been a ceremonial gift on display at the White House; when later confronted on this inexplicable action, he lied about it.
- By loudly publicizing (for personal political gain) the identity of the exact SEAL teams who had killed Osama bin Laden, Obama made them a target for reprisals by Islamists; a short time later 22 SEALS were shot down and killed in Afghanistan, their worst loss of life ever.
- Set up a special email account, “Flag@Whitehouse.gov,” to which Americans were supposed to inform the government of anyone they heard spreading “disinformation” about Obama’s health care overhaul. (This was the first of three different “spy on your friends and neighbors” programs.)
- “Attack Watch” was Obama’s second Big Brother attempt, a Web site on which you would report “attacks” on Obama’s proposals and ideology; it was quickly shut down due to outrage and mockery. (the mockery part needs to be more prominent now)
- Finally, Obama set up the “Truth Team” program which encouraged citizens to report to the government any friends or relatives they hear repeating “lies” about Obama. The Truth Team site still exists.
- After the attacks on American interests in North Africa on September 11, 2012 (Benghazi), Obama gave a speech to the U.N. and declared “The future must not belong to those who slander The Prophet of Islam” — transferring the blame from the attackers onto the makers of a film trailer that supposedly “offended” the Islamists.
- On May 19, 2011, Obama told Israel they must return to the 1967 borders as a pre-condition for continuing talks with the Palestinians — even though the status of the borders was the main issue the talks were supposed to address.
- Encouraged politically biased hiring practices in the Justice Department. (And we wonder why the DOJ is so biased?!)
- Attempted to force returning veterans to pay huge increases for their health coverage…as a way to generate more funding for his Obamacare provisions.
- Attempted to force returning veterans to pay huge increases for their health coverage…as a way to generate more funding for his Obamacare provisions.
- The pastor whom Obama selected to give the national benediction at his 2009 inauguration recently declared that “all white people are going to Hell.”
- Sided with Hugo Chavez and the Castro regime regarding the Honduran Constitutional Crisis of 2009, the first time ever that the U.S. formed a political alliance with socialist governments in Latin America.
- Obama Administration approved the nomination of Chas Freeman to chair the National Intelligence Council (which coordinates intelligence reports from all government agencies), despite the fact that he was openly hostile to Israel and strongly favored Arabist goals. (He later withdrew under pressure.)
- There was a great deal of (still unverified) suspicion that the company LightSquared received favorable treatment from the Obama administration for approval of its broadband technology which interfered with the GPS system; an Air Force general claimed he was pressured by the Obama administration to downplay his criticism of LightSquared’s technology in sworn testimony.
- Obama’s Department of Energy awarded $529 million to Fisker Automotive to build their Karma hybrid electric cars — even though they are manufactured in Finland, cost over $100,000 each, and tend to explode.
- More than once Obama made so-called “recess appointments” when the Senate was not actually in recess, which directly violates Constitutional rules about how appointments must be made; in each case it was his way of getting his political allies into certain key positions without them being vetted or approved by the Senate, as required.
- Obama somehow managed to insert mentions of himself into the official biographies of earlier presidents on the White House Web site — even presidents from the 19th century. After public outcry, the narcissistic Obama mentions were quietly removed without comment.
- Intentionally misquotes the Declaration of Independence in speeches, often leaving out the words “by their Creator” in the famous passage “…are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,” which Obama instead has recited as “…are endowed with certain unalienable rights.”
- In June of 2009, Obama’s Solicitor General (and now Supreme Court Justice) Elena Kagan filed a legal brief to prevent the families of 9/11 victims from appealing their lawsuits against the Saudi royal family for financing the 9/11 attacks.
- The 2009 National Christmas Tree in the White House was decorated with ornaments depicting Chairman Mao, a drag queen, and a picture of Mount Rushmore that included Obama’s own head next to George Washington’s.
- Compelled Catholic and other religious organizations to provide health plans with free contraception, even though such requirements violate their rights of religious freedom and conscience. (which was later overturned by SCOTUS)
- Lied about his close associations with former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers; pretended the two barely knew each other, when multiple sources document they were friends and close colleagues for years.
- When Obama was inaugurated as President on January 20, 2009, he at first flubbed the oath of office, so he had to re-take it behind closed doors for his inauguration to be valid. He did so, but during this second, true inauguration in private, he purposely failed to place his hand on a Bible, as is traditional — the first president ever to not swear the oath of office on the Bible.
- For three years in a row his official budget proposals to Congress received exactly zero votes — not even a single vote from Democrats.
- Relied on an Islamic fundamentalist militia group called “The Martyrs of the February the 17th Revolution Brigade” to provide security at the American mission in Benghazi — and they not only failed to prevent the attack but perhaps even joined in on it.
- During the debate over Obamacare in 2009, Obama bluntly stated that doctors like to perform amputations rather than practice preventive medicine for no other reason than that they make a greater profit from amputations. The American College of Surgeons demanded an apology, which never arrived.
- Obama’s Department of Homeland Security specifically warned that Americans who are “dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration” are potential terrorists, as are libertarian-minded voters who “favor of state or local authority” over centralized power. These “rightwing extremists” (who hold political beliefs shared by a majority of Americans) are deemed a greater threat to the nation than actual revolutionaries or jihadists.
- For decades, every president has attended a “daily intelligence briefing” which updates him on critical world events each morning. Obama has skipped 60% of his daily intelligence briefings, including the ones leading up to the attack in Benghazi.