Here are some of the changes that have taken place since "President" Obama was inaugurated just 4 months ago.
Since taking office, not a day has passed without President Obama touting some new policy, spending program or government overreach. Obama made grand claims about excluding lobbyists from his cabinet, only to back off this stance when reality made this difficult. Obama's cabinet picks have had more dirty laundry than any new President in recent history. Obama's 787 billion "reinvestment" plan was sub-contracted out to Nancy Pelosi, loaded with pork, and absent of real stimulus. Obama promoted Geithner's mortgage and housing plan, only to have the markets flip out at its utter lack of detail and questioning Geithner's readiness for the job once the plan was introduced. Obama's ten-year budget is full of fantasy and pork (8500 earmarks?!?), whose real costs are totally unknown. His health care plan is a mere down payment on government health care, but does not address the real questions around how to "fix" our medical system (electronic medical records isn't it). Not to mention the seemingly endless slide of the stock market, that even Bill Clinton recognized was not being helped (if not sabotaged) by Obama's Fear and Change rhetoric (which although Obama's largely gotten a pass on this one, Bush was severely attacked by the media for the same thing during 2001).
To save money, our government was actually considering billing VETERANS with service connected injuries for the care they receive at VA Hospitals. And since we are on the subject of VETERANS, this headline has been posted on the Internet and reads as follows ; NAPOLITANO: Veterans are TARGETS of Right-Wing Extremest Recruiters Go to http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/04/19/napolitano-veterans-targets-right-wing-extremist-recruiters/ for the full article.
As a veteran myself, I find any report aimed primarily to PROFILING VETERANS that are coming home from defending us from TERRORISTS OF ANY KIND an insult and should be looked upon as unlawful as profiling minorities. By sending a "warning report" to "American law enforcement agencies", the Democrats have tipped their hand as to how they really feel about the American Military. Not the HEROES they said at election time, but the "baby killers" and "torturers" those same Democrats proclaimed Vietnam Veterans of the 1960s and 70s were. Now that was some rally cry. (Thank you Sen. Keary, Jane Fonda and everyone else on the "loony" Liberal Left. To those VETERANS, that sure was some homecoming! Thanks for ALL your support! NOT!!)
Michelle Malkin wrote an article titled : YOU MIGHT BE A "RADICALIZED RIGHT-WING EXTREMIST" and she writes as follows:
We are all right-wing extremists now. Welcome to the club.
To conclude:
We're giving BILLIONS in BAILOUTS to companies AIG to pay bonuses and to FOREIGN BANKS while Senators Dodd & FRANKS haven't resigned and placed in handcuffs along with the rest of those in charge at Freddie Mac & Frannie Mae which strongly contributed to the the current GLOBAL RECESSION . They won't confess ANY responsibility although it was THEIR assurances before their respected committees that both were alright. The TRUTH will come out some day. And when it does, I really hope and pray these two LYING IDIOTS go to jail.
President Obama's forays into foreign policy have been equally as stuttering and ill considered. He engaged Russia on Iran, and was quickly rebuffed. He made noise about closing Guantanamo without having a real plan for doing so, and some terrorists have gotten off scot-free as a result. North Korea's Kim Jong Il and Iran's Ahmadinejad have already started to test the new president and his all-carrots-no-stick approach. He's pissed off our allies in Pakistan with missile attacks. And most recently, Obama kicked off his relationship with UK PM Gordon Brown with an inappropriate gift consisting of 25 DVD's.
AND WHY BOW BEFORE A SAUDI KING IN "RESPECT" AND NOT THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND? DOES SHE NOT DESERVE THE SAME RESPECT? ( It must be a MUSLIM thing.)
Obama's scattershot promotion of his massive policy changes has been sweeping and ill considered. Rather than focus on making a single good policy, Obama has instead created 100 policies that are not fully fleshed. Meanwhile, as the stock market has dropped over 1600 points under his watch (over 3000 points since his election) his principal advisers are busy demonizing entertainers such as Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli, and (former Obama supporter) Jim Cramer for questioning the wisdom behind these policies. While Obama blames the prior administration for the current stock market decline, whines about inheriting this mess, and suggests that he doesn't care about the "gyrations of the market" (which reflects a forward looking view by investors of our economy), Americans are losing their nest eggs, and the world is losing confidence. Rather than make good on his campaign promises for greater bi-partisanship, he's been attacking GOP straw men -- as opposed to actual GOP stances -- with relentless fervor. Adding insult to injury, while Campaign Obama criticized President Bush for telling people to buy stuff after 9/11, President Obama's own stimulus plan and tax cuts are designed precisely to get people to buy stuff.
NOW NOW COMES MY QUESTION: So, how do you think our "new" President is doing so far?
Since taking office, not a day has passed without President Obama touting some new policy, spending program or government overreach. Obama made grand claims about excluding lobbyists from his cabinet, only to back off this stance when reality made this difficult. Obama's cabinet picks have had more dirty laundry than any new President in recent history. Obama's 787 billion "reinvestment" plan was sub-contracted out to Nancy Pelosi, loaded with pork, and absent of real stimulus. Obama promoted Geithner's mortgage and housing plan, only to have the markets flip out at its utter lack of detail and questioning Geithner's readiness for the job once the plan was introduced. Obama's ten-year budget is full of fantasy and pork (8500 earmarks?!?), whose real costs are totally unknown. His health care plan is a mere down payment on government health care, but does not address the real questions around how to "fix" our medical system (electronic medical records isn't it). Not to mention the seemingly endless slide of the stock market, that even Bill Clinton recognized was not being helped (if not sabotaged) by Obama's Fear and Change rhetoric (which although Obama's largely gotten a pass on this one, Bush was severely attacked by the media for the same thing during 2001).
To save money, our government was actually considering billing VETERANS with service connected injuries for the care they receive at VA Hospitals. And since we are on the subject of VETERANS, this headline has been posted on the Internet and reads as follows ; NAPOLITANO: Veterans are TARGETS of Right-Wing Extremest Recruiters Go to http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/04/19/napolitano-veterans-targets-right-wing-extremist-recruiters/ for the full article.
As a veteran myself, I find any report aimed primarily to PROFILING VETERANS that are coming home from defending us from TERRORISTS OF ANY KIND an insult and should be looked upon as unlawful as profiling minorities. By sending a "warning report" to "American law enforcement agencies", the Democrats have tipped their hand as to how they really feel about the American Military. Not the HEROES they said at election time, but the "baby killers" and "torturers" those same Democrats proclaimed Vietnam Veterans of the 1960s and 70s were. Now that was some rally cry. (Thank you Sen. Keary, Jane Fonda and everyone else on the "loony" Liberal Left. To those VETERANS, that sure was some homecoming! Thanks for ALL your support! NOT!!)
Michelle Malkin wrote an article titled : YOU MIGHT BE A "RADICALIZED RIGHT-WING EXTREMIST" and she writes as follows:
What and who exactly are President Obama's homeland security officials afraid of these days? If you are a member of an active conservative group that opposes abortion, favors strict immigration enforcement, lobbies to protect Second Amendment rights, protests big government, advocates federalism or represents veterans who believe in any of the above, the answer is: You.
Department of Homeland Security Sec. Janet Napolitano has turned her attention away from acts of Islamic jihad on American soil (which she now refers to as "man-caused disasters"). Instead, her department is sounding the alarm over an unquantified "resurgence" in "right-wing extremism activity." On April 7, DHS sent a nine-page warning memo to law enforcement offices across the country titled "Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment."
The report includes a sweeping definition of the threat:
"Right-wing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration."
You cannot ignore the context or the timing of this DHS report. It's no small coincidence that Napolitano's agency disseminated the assessment just a week before the nationwide April 15 Tax Day Tea Party protests. The grassroots events organized by fiscal conservatives, independents, Libertarians and, yes, even some Blue Dog Democrats were fueled by the "current economic and political climate" of bipartisan profligate spending and endless taxpayer-funded bailouts. The growing success of the loose-knit movement has invited scorn, ridicule and fear-mongering from Obama's supporters. Liberal bloggers have likened the Tea Party movement to neo-Nazis, militias and even Weather Underground terrorists.
These attempts to demonize the Tea Party movement come on the heels of widespread conservative-bashing over the recent shooting sprees in Pittsburgh and Binghamton, N.Y. Taking Hillary Clinton's advice to "never waste a good crisis," left-wing pundits and analysts have blamed the tragedies on everyone from Rush Limbaugh to Fox News to the NRA.
The DHS spokespeople I talked to on Monday insisted that the report was not a politicized document and that DHS had done similar assessments on "left-wing extremism" in the past. But past domestic terrorism reports have always been very specific in identifying security threats -- such as the Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front -- and very specific in identifying their methods and targets, including repeated physical harassment, arson and vandalism against pharmaceutical companies, farms, labs and university researchers.
By contrast, the Obama DHS report is an overarching indictment of conservatives. "Right-wing extremist chatter on the Internet continues to focus on the economy, the perceived loss of U.S. jobs in the manufacturing and construction sectors, and home foreclosures," the assessment warns. When I asked DHS spokeswoman Sara Kuban to explain who was responsible for this "extremist chatter," she could not and would not name names.
Moreover, the report relies on the work of the left-leaning Southern Poverty Law Center to stir anxiety over "disgruntled military veterans" -- a citation that gives us valuable insight into how DHS will define "hate-oriented" groups. The SPLC, you see, has designated the venerable American Legion a "hate group" for its stance on immigration enforcement. The report offers zero data, but states with an almost resentful attitude toward protected free speech: "Debates over appropriate immigration levels and enforcement policy generally fall within the realm of protected political speech under the First Amendment, but in some cases, anti-immigration or strident pro-enforcement fervor has been directed against specific groups and has the potential to turn violent."
"Potential to turn violent"? So did the hysterical fervor whipped up by Capitol Hill over the AIG bonuses, which prompted ugly death threats from across the country. No mention here, though. Not "right wing" enough. Nor will you see Obama DHS warnings to police and sheriff's departments about self-proclaimed bank terrorists such as Bruce Marks of the aggressive Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America or the mob activists of ACORN who have committed burglary, stormed corporate executives' homes and vowed to conduct "civil disobedience" by "any means necessary" in response to the "current economic and political climate."
If you can redefine dissenting opinion as "hate," you can brand your political opponents as "extremists" -- and you can marginalize electoral threats. "Antigovernment"? "Pro-enforcement"? "Disgruntled"? Feeling taxed enough already and "recruiting" and "radicalizing" your friends and neighbors through "chatter on the Internet"?
To conclude:
We're giving BILLIONS in BAILOUTS to companies AIG to pay bonuses and to FOREIGN BANKS while Senators Dodd & FRANKS haven't resigned and placed in handcuffs along with the rest of those in charge at Freddie Mac & Frannie Mae which strongly contributed to the the current GLOBAL RECESSION . They won't confess ANY responsibility although it was THEIR assurances before their respected committees that both were alright. The TRUTH will come out some day. And when it does, I really hope and pray these two LYING IDIOTS go to jail.
President Obama's forays into foreign policy have been equally as stuttering and ill considered. He engaged Russia on Iran, and was quickly rebuffed. He made noise about closing Guantanamo without having a real plan for doing so, and some terrorists have gotten off scot-free as a result. North Korea's Kim Jong Il and Iran's Ahmadinejad have already started to test the new president and his all-carrots-no-stick approach. He's pissed off our allies in Pakistan with missile attacks. And most recently, Obama kicked off his relationship with UK PM Gordon Brown with an inappropriate gift consisting of 25 DVD's.
AND WHY BOW BEFORE A SAUDI KING IN "RESPECT" AND NOT THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND? DOES SHE NOT DESERVE THE SAME RESPECT? ( It must be a MUSLIM thing.)
Obama's scattershot promotion of his massive policy changes has been sweeping and ill considered. Rather than focus on making a single good policy, Obama has instead created 100 policies that are not fully fleshed. Meanwhile, as the stock market has dropped over 1600 points under his watch (over 3000 points since his election) his principal advisers are busy demonizing entertainers such as Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli, and (former Obama supporter) Jim Cramer for questioning the wisdom behind these policies. While Obama blames the prior administration for the current stock market decline, whines about inheriting this mess, and suggests that he doesn't care about the "gyrations of the market" (which reflects a forward looking view by investors of our economy), Americans are losing their nest eggs, and the world is losing confidence. Rather than make good on his campaign promises for greater bi-partisanship, he's been attacking GOP straw men -- as opposed to actual GOP stances -- with relentless fervor. Adding insult to injury, while Campaign Obama criticized President Bush for telling people to buy stuff after 9/11, President Obama's own stimulus plan and tax cuts are designed precisely to get people to buy stuff.
NOW NOW COMES MY QUESTION: So, how do you think our "new" President is doing so far?
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