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Obama and the 111th Congress One Year Later
In response to liberal claims that the Maoists don’t exist, do a quick search on Google and youtube.com for Ron Bloom, Anita Dunn, Van Jones, John Holdren and Cass Sunstein – they’re all on record quoting Mao or spouting their support for Marxism, espousing atheistic views or overt support for radical environmental legislation often as a means to political revolution. More importantly I wish to address incorrect liberal assertions for my disdain of Obama, it would be more correctly labeled my disdain for the policies, philosophies, and political conduct of Obama and the 111th Congress.
In the case of the uuber-critical left that are so ensconced in their denial of the obvious and can’t see the forest for the trees, there are many good reasons for those of us who hold this 111th Congress and the Obama administration in disdain. Just the recent lack of public debate of the health care legislation, the lack of it being discussed on CSPAN as promised, and it being held behind closed doors specifically being kept from the light day is only one reason, but a very good one.
My letter from almost a year ago entitled by the editor “Obama already failing,” was right on the mark and we have seen that Obama’s actions have been anything but governing from the center as he promised and thus he now has the lowest approval rating of any president at this point in his first term since they started polling. His promise of transparency has been an utter joke, his promise to keep lobbyists out of his administration an utterly superficial and empty lie at best, and his arm-twisting of legislators and the general public to approve of the Stimulus and health care legislation shameless.
The CBO warned before the Stimulus was passed that the economy would likely right itself on its own and that has happened. They also warned we would be far in debt as a result and that is also true. We now have a jobless recovery that is only getting worse slower, not turning around and that after we get back 7 million lost jobs we need to create an additional 100,000 every month to give employment to those entering the workforce for the first time.
Obama’s promise to veto any legislation with pork-barrel spending attached has also been an utter joke, but so are all the representatives and senators Democrat and Republican alike that have perpetuated this practice and they all need to go. No more House and Senate members that thumb their noses at the people who put them there, you are on your way out, and we’ll see to it regardless of our political affiliation that your exodus from D.C. is a permanent one.
It was good to see Bill Ritter face the inevitable with the Cory Voorhis scandal that is nipping at his heels and his ridiculous spending on things coming to light and give up on a second term. The same sentiments to Dodd who was part of the financial failure of 2007-08 with his stonewalling of government oversight into Fannie and Freddie, and good riddance to Dorgan from North Dakota seeing the handwriting on the wall as well.
To every registered Republican; become engaged in the caucus process now as we need to field the right candidates, not those that are just a little more tolerable than their Democratic counterparts, but those that will stand up for Conservatism. We need principled leaders who will defend the Constitution, not pass legislation that defies it. We need leaders with real-world business experience that will work towards a smaller, less-intrusive government, not those who will expand and empower government. We need politicians that represent us and that will not betray us. Most of all we need leaders that aren’t looking to become someone, but leaders that desire to represent someone.
Together we can remove the demolitionists and dismantlers of The Republic and our Constitution. What we cannot do is elect the same Republicans that betrayed us the last 16 years, but those who will truly keep the promises they make and bring prosperity back to America.