From Jonathan Alter to FReepers....
Your mission, Jim (and readers named something else), should you decide to accept it, is to identify where Obama has been a poor decision-maker. What, specifically, has he done wrong on policy? What, specifically, would you have done differently to create jobs? And what can any of the current Republican candidates offer that would be an improvement on the employment front?
I’m not interested in hearing ad hominem attacks or about your generalized “disappointment.”
I want to know, on a substantive basis, why you think he deserves to be in a dead heat with Mitt Romney and Rick Perry and only a few points ahead of Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann in a new Gallup Poll. Is it just that any president — regardless of circumstances and party — who presides over 9 percent unemployment deserves to lose?
That’s 17% unemployment and 9% inflation.
The Government’s statistics are the only thing the Government keeps tightly in check.
ARRA (porkulus)
TARP
Cash For Clunkers
Sotomayor
Kagan
Failure to go to Congress prior to attacking Libya (which is all the more bizarre because he’d have GOTTEN approval)
Using regulations to achieve what he couldn’t through legislation (EPA, NRLB, etc.)
Abandonment of Poland, etc. vs. Russia on missile defense
etc., etc.
Alter seems amazed that conservatives actually DISAGREE with Obama’s policy choices. I also think Obama is incompetent EVEN for a leftist, but that’s beside Alter’s point.
Gee,
How many things has Barry of the Zero done that Are unconstitutional?
EVERYTHING!
1. A stimulus bill that didn't stimulate.
2. The suppression of domestic oil and gas drilling, which weakens the dollar, prolongs our economic malaise and exacerbates our dependence on foreign oil.
3. A financial regulatory bill that did little if anything to solve the problem of "too big to fail" but nevertheless increased the regulatory burden on the financial sector.
4. Hostility toward Israel.
5. A Justice Department that is STILL sueing banks to force them to lend money to people who cannot afford to service the debt.
5. A deadline for surrender in Afghanistan while continuing combat operations there.
6. A radicalized National Labor Relations Board.
7. The transfer of a significant interest in GM to the UAW while concurrently subverting the legal rights of the GM bondholders.
8. The effective granting of amnesty to illegal aliens without the legal authority to do so.
9. The suppression of job creation by continually threatening small business with tax increases.
10. A failure to encourage repatriation of offshore corporate profits by reducing the corporate income tax.
11. Obamacare.
12. An out of control EPA that is contributing to significant increases in utility costs, thereby contributing to the suppression of job creation.
13. Wasteful and corrupt spending on "green energy" projects.
I'm sure there are more, but those are the ones that come immediately to mind.