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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Christopher Merola :: Townhall.com Columnist
The Audacity of Hopeless Disasters
by Christopher Merola
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Well, Barack Obama has now passed the seven-month mark of his presidency and we are seeing what we have to endure for the next three years and five months. Already, we can tell that the Barack Obama administration is just one disaster after another.

First we saw the Obama Hubris front and center as he spent $170 million on his inauguration event, which was partially paid for by the same Wall Street executives Obama voted to bail out in 2008.

Next, came the Obama Stimulus package, which was his first priority and the most important part of his agenda, an agenda that was supposed to get the economy back on track. Obama himself said that the stimulus was necessary to keep unemployment from rising above eight percent. Well, unemployment is just about at the 10 percent mark and if you were not sure before, you know now that the stimulus was a dud.

A big reason why the stimulus failed was that only 13 percent of the package had anything to do with stimulating the economy. The remaining 87 percent went to pet projects and boondoggle programs, such as billions of dollars to pay off Obama’s storm troopers, namely, ACORN.

The National Review broke down the stimulus by exposing where the money went. Here are some of the most outrageous places our $787 billion worth of tax money went:

$4.2 billion for neighborhood stabilization activities (here is where ACORN comes in to play);

$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts;

$650 million for digital-TV coupons;

$87 million for a ship that breaks polar ice (I thought global warming was taking care of that?)

$600 million to convert the federal auto fleet to hybrids;

$450 million for NASA to engage in climate-research missions;

$600 million for NOAA to engage in climate modeling;

$1 billion for the Census Bureau.

Obama then attempted to place the oversight of the 2010 U.S. Census process in the hands of his Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, rather than allow the Commerce Department to do its job. This was an Obama manipulative tactic so he could redistrict Congressional Districts to favor Democrat candidates (Gerrymandering) with our tax dollars. Thanks to public outcry, this tactic was unsuccessful.

The stimulus bill also included language to ban money from being used to renovate school buildings where "religious worship" occurred. This means organizations such as the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and Catholic Student Ministries, which meet on college campuses nationwide, are barred from doing so if the building where they meet was renovated using stimulus funds. This is a clear violation of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.

Obama soon filled his cabinet with the most horrible left-wing ideologues like David Ogden, who once argued in court on behalf of defending child pornography.

There were cabinet positions that he tried to fill with candidates who had ethical dilemmas like Bill Richardson, and the tax cheat list that included Tim Geithner, Tom Daschle, Nancy Killefer and Hilda Solis, whose spouse owes the IRS back taxes.

Obama also overturned a G.W. Bush energy policy to re-open drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. This all occurred within the first few months of the Obama administration.

By March, less than three months into the Obama presidency, the Congressional Budget Office filed a report showing that Obama's budget would produce $9.3 trillion in additional debt than we currently have. This is a total of four times the amount left behind by George W. Bush, which took eight years to accomplish. Yet, Obama’s budget produced a deficit that quadruples Bush’s deficit in just three months.

The Obama budget even called for increasing the death tax rate to 45 percent.

Obama, who promised to raise taxes only on the “rich,” has already proposed to add to the punitive income tax we must pay, a national sales tax, a cap and trade tax, an elimination of the payroll tax contribution ceiling and the elimination of charitable deductions.

It just keeps getting worse. Continued...

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About The Author

Christopher Merola is the Political Director for Political Media, Inc, a political advertising and public relations firm in Washington, DC.

Obama won on a platform of class envy
I'm afraid that many many more Obama supporters will have to lose their jobs, homes, businesses etc. before they get with the program and wise up. On one hand, I believe that their envy got us all into this mess and a hard lesson is what they need, on the other hand, I'm angry that they'll bring so many down with them because of it.

the mark that begins his 7 month...
in context, I believe that is what the author is saying, that Obama passed the mark that begins his 7 month as President = El Commandant to Obama
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