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Fifteen Reasons I'm Already Tired of the Obama Era
Townhall.com ^ | February 24, 2009 | John Hawkins

Posted on 02/24/2009 3:38:24 AM PST by Kaslin

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 a deficit hawk -- that's like getting a lecture on honesty from Bill Clinton.

14) ACORN, which engaged in large scale voter fraud during the 2008 election that won't be seriously investigated 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 promises 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 making 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 anticipation 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 Congressional 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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: 0bama; 111th; acorn; agenda; bho2009; bho44; democrats; economy; enoughalready; first100days; johnhawkins; obama; porkulus
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1 posted on 02/24/2009 3:38:24 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
Here's another one. The fist bump. It doesn't belong in the White House.


2 posted on 02/24/2009 3:41:14 AM PST by raybbr (It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
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To: Turbo Pig

ping for later


3 posted on 02/24/2009 3:44:02 AM PST by Turbo Pig (...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
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To: Kaslin

BFL


4 posted on 02/24/2009 3:45:11 AM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Kaslin

ping


5 posted on 02/24/2009 3:45:46 AM PST by YankeeMagic
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To: Kaslin

ping


6 posted on 02/24/2009 3:46:04 AM PST by YankeeMagic
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To: raybbr

7 posted on 02/24/2009 3:47:05 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of the Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Kaslin

That just about sums it up.


8 posted on 02/24/2009 3:47:47 AM PST by maxter (Give today a chance. Enjoy.)
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To: Kaslin

14) ACORN, which engaged in large scale voter fraud during the 2008 election that won’t be seriously investigated 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.

And to add to that, balack obama has created ACORN a cabinet department, Department of Urban Affairs.


9 posted on 02/24/2009 3:51:59 AM PST by Bluebird Singing
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To: Kaslin

The stimulus will not work for the same reasons that I told my daughter that she cannot use one credit card to pay for another. All it does is postpone the enevitable for short time and then the bill winds up even higher.


10 posted on 02/24/2009 4:04:02 AM PST by BuffaloJack
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To: BuffaloJack

I hope your daughter listens to you


11 posted on 02/24/2009 4:07:34 AM PST by Kaslin (Acronym for Obma: One Bad Ass Mistake America)
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To: raybbr

I hate that “fist bump” stuff. It just emphasizes the thug quality of everybody around Barry. On top of that, it’s so phoney - I doubt that Barry was doing the fist-bump in the exclusive private schools he attended when he was half-white in Hawaii. Now that he’s become a brudda, of course, he’s got to live down to the image.


12 posted on 02/24/2009 4:10:45 AM PST by livius
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To: Kaslin
"Barack Obama is like Jimmy Carter on speed"

The money quote.

13 posted on 02/24/2009 4:12:09 AM PST by Paladin2 (No, pundits strongly believe that the proper solution is more dilution.)
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To: raybbr

“That’s like finding a turd in the punch bowl and just tossing it into the lemonade.”

The Hawkins fellow certainly has a way with words.


14 posted on 02/24/2009 4:20:51 AM PST by Scotswife (GO ISRAEL!!!)
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To: Kaslin
Prior to the stimulus bill being passed, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the recession we're in would be over by the 2nd half of 2009.

This is what the whole Obama Apparatus is counting on, a (naturally) quick recovery - despite their trillions in theft - and all to the Glory of The One.

15 posted on 02/24/2009 4:38:46 AM PST by paulycy (BEWARE the LIBERAL/MEDIA Complex)
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To: Kaslin
I thought the implicit promise of the Left was that electing Obama would put the race hustlers out of business?

I hear this one from Obama voters all the time. What were they thinking? Even if it were true, it is still a poor trade.

But it wasn't true. There was no way the election of Obama was going to lead to a decrease activity by the race hustlers. Quite the opposite, in fact...

16 posted on 02/24/2009 4:39:55 AM PST by gridlock (BTW, Mods... It might be time to add "Barack" and "Obama" to spellcheck)
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To: Kaslin
And every one of the Obama / DemonRAT moves is straight out of the socialist playbook. Drive a recession into a depression so they can implement even greater government controls. Restore and grow the welfare class. Nationalize banks, nationalize industries. Destroy the military. Then implement the brown shirts. And the media carries the water like the kool aid drinking fools that they are.
17 posted on 02/24/2009 4:40:51 AM PST by bitterohiogunclinger (America held hostage - day 111)
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To: Kaslin

He is on TV entirely too much.


18 posted on 02/24/2009 4:48:58 AM PST by jennyjenny
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To: Kaslin

“If we’re not out of it by 2010, we know who deserves the blame.”

Ever notice how the Democrats preface every mention of spending with “in order to get us out of the economic mess we inherited”?

Democrats are quintessential, irresponsible, adolescent, psychotic, revolutionary, punks. No matter what happens, they will blame everything on “Bush” and the Republicans.
Their objective is power. They are wielding it with a swagger that’s becoming more visible every day.

IMHO


19 posted on 02/24/2009 5:09:47 AM PST by ripley
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To: raybbr

and i haven’t seen ‘change’ yet i was expecting him to do something drastic but he’s following old policies. agreed with ‘no change’.


20 posted on 02/24/2009 5:15:30 AM PST by awesomely_close (f the dog beware of owner)
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