Obama’s Kamikaze Presidency Part 1: Domestic Policy

On By kingsjesterIn Politics

Kamikaze:  adjective: having or showing reckless disregard for safety or personal welfare

President Barack Hussein Obama  (mm mmm mmmm) told ABC’s “World News” anchor Diane Sawyer in an exclusive interview on January 25, 2010:

I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president. 

At the time, we did not know that “really good” was based on his own definition of that term.  Over the next two days, I will outline Obama’s polices and the effect they are having on America.  I believe one could compare his actions to that of a Kamikaze pilot in World War II’s Pacific Theater of Operations.

1.  The Stimulus Package – One of Obama’s first acts as president was to push through a 787 billion dollar Stimulus Package, designed to create jobs and get the economy moving again.  Almost a year and a half later, we have found out that the total cost is 862 billion dollars, 75 billion more than expected.  Americans have also found out that it is a miserable failure.  Here is a breakdown by the numbers, courtesy of gop.com:

3.5 MILLION: Jobs Obama Promised Stimulus Would Create By End Of 2010.

3.3 MILLION: Jobs Lost Since Obama Made That Promise.
  
6.8 MILLION: Jobs Obama Must Now Create To Keep Promise By End Of 2010.
  
1.1 MILLION: Jobs Obama’s Economists Project Will Be Created By End Of 2010.
  
5.7 MILLION: Jobs By Which Obama’s Economists’ Projection Leaves Him Short In Keeping Promise. 
  
6 PERCENT: Not Surprisingly, Number Of Americans That Say Obama’s Stimulus Created Jobs. 
 
7.7 PERCENT: Unemployment Rate When Obama Was Selling Stimulus In January 2009.
 
8 PERCENT: Unemployment Rate Obama Pledged Stimulus Would Prevent Us From Reaching.
 
9.7 PERCENT: Current Unemployment Rate.
 
16.5 PERCENT: Current Unemployment Rate When Underemployed And Discouraged Workers Are Included.
 
334,000: Americans That Have Given Up Looking For A Job Since Stimulus Was Signed.
 
47: States That Have Lost Jobs Since Stimulus Was Signed. 
 
10: States That Moved From Single-Digit To Double-Digit Unemployment Rate Since Stimulus Was Signed. 
 
$862 BILLION: Updated Cost Of Stimulus, $75 Billion Increase From Last Year’s Cost Estimate.
 
440: Number Of Nonexistent Congressional Districts That Received Stimulus Funds.
 
$6.4 BILLION: Amount Of Stimulus Funds That Went To Nonexistent Congressional Districts.
 
$18 MILLION: Cost Of Stimulus Website, Recovery.gov.
2.  Obamacare –  In  their latest analysis of ObamaCare, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has concluded that ObamaCare will cost at least $115 billion more than it originally estimated.    This brings the total cost to over 1 trillion dollars, not less than 1 trillion, as was promised by Obama and the administration before the bill was passed.
 
3.  Repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell – During his State of the Union Address, Scooter announced that he was going to push for the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, allowing homosexuals in our Armed Forces to publically proclaim their sexuality, no matter what that would do to the morale of our armed forces.  A repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell has been included in the defense authorization bill on both the House and Senate sides. The bill must now go through conference committee. 
 
While Obama still supports repeal, he has also threatened to veto a bill that includes funding for the the C-17 cargo plane or an alternative engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter which the defense subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee has talked about including in the proposed legislation.

In a related issue, the Labor Department will issue regulations this week ordering businesses to give gay employees equal treatment under The Family and Medical Leave Act.

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis will announce Wednesday that the government would require employers to extend the option that has been available to heterosexual workers for almost two decades, two officials briefed on the plan revealed Monday. 

The Family and Medical Leave Act allows workers to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave each year to take care of loved ones or themselves. The 1993 law, which also allows employees to take time off for adoptions, has previously only been applied to heterosexual couples.

Obama will sign an Executive Order authorizing this action,  which means future presidents could reverse the decision.

4.  Illegal Immigration – The problem of illegal immigration is a contentious issue normally, but Obama has done nothing to calm the issue.  Arizona Republican Jon Kyl blew this topic wide open on Friday.  He told supporters in Phoenix that during a private meeting on immigration, President Obama said he’s “holding it hostage” — “it” being border security — in exchange for comprehensive reform.  The White House is denying this.

White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer told The Daily Caller:

The president didn’t say that and Senator Kyl knows it.  There are more resources dedicated toward border security today than ever before, but, as the president has made clear, truly securing the border will require a comprehensive solution to our broken immigration system.

Andrew Wilder, Communications Director for Kyl told The Daily Caller:

There were two people in that meeting and Dan Pfeiffer was not one of them. Senator Kyl stands by his remarks. The White House spokesman’s pushback that you must have comprehensive immigration reform to secure the border only confirms Kyl’s account.

If I had to decide the veracity of the two accounts, I would believe Senator Kyl’s.

News broke Friday morning that the Department of Justice will  sue the state of Arizona over its new immigration law, at the bequest of President Obama.

It is Obama’s opinion that SB1070 will lead to racial profiling.   He asked Holder to review it in order to placate his base and procure millions of new Hispanic Democratic Party voters.  The president announced the DOJ’s initial investigation as part of his response to the bill, during a joint appearance with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who denounced SB1070 in no uncertain terms at the White House.
I wish to remind you that Arizona’s law continues to enjoy broad public support–a little fact that gets overlooked amid the Liberal angst and cries of racial discrimination that have been raised since Gov. Jan Brewer signed it in April.
 
5.  The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill – The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also known as the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill or the BP Oil Spill) is a large ongoing oil spill started by an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil platform about 50 miles southeast of the Mississippi River delta on April 20, 2010 (28.74°N, 88.39°W). The explosion killed 11 platform workers.   The Deepwater Horizon sank in about 5,000 feet (1,500 m) of water on April 22, 2010.  
 
Scooter’s response to this disaster has been feckless at best.  On Thursday, April 29th, Obama sent Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson to help coordinate the federal response to the potential environmental disaster.  7 rounds of golf and 4 Photo-op trips to the Gulf later, Obama and the nation are still watching as oil continues to flow freely from the exploded well.  This disaster may not be over until August, according to British Petroleum, when a relief well will be operational.
 
Obama’s benefactor, Socialist billionaire George Soros is going to make out like a bandit.  This information is from my post Obama’s Kayfabe part 2:  Obeying the Puppetmaster:

Soros just happens to be invested in offshore oil drilling in Brazil, assisted by the American taxpayers. 

Newsmax:

The Wall Street Journal reports: ‘The United States, through the U.S. Export-Import Bank, has issued a ‘preliminary commitment’ of $2 billion and more if needed’ to Petroleo Brasileiro SA, a Brazilian government-owned oil exploration and development corporation known as ‘Petrobras.’

Soros Fund Management, LLC has a stake in Petrobras worth approximately $900 million as of December 31, 2009.

George Soros’ principal investments are in oil; one in particular is Petrobras, the Brazilian-owned company. This happens to be the largest investment in the Soros portfolio at the present time.

Now that word is out that the facilities of the U.S. Export-Import Bank SA is offering guarantees for loans to Brazil’s state-owned oil company Petrobras, U.S. citizens are beginning to complain.

Soros also holds quite a lot of real estate in Brazil.  Soros’ Adecoagro, which invests in renewable energy,  owns or leases about 840,000 acres of farmland in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay growing coffee, soybeans and other commodities.  Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Bunge Ltd. Are also expanding into ethanol in Brazil.

Obama’s amateurish handling of this horrendous disaster, is either unintentional stupidity or intentional treason. 
 
Tomorrow, we’ll discuss President Barack Hussein Obama’s (Peace be upon him) Foreign Policy.   It’s just as convoluted as his Domestic Policy.  Stay tuned.
Sources:  abcnews.go.com, gop.com, newsmax.com, talkingpointsmemo.com, daily caller.com, theatlantic.com, eoearth.org, washingtontimes.com, merriam-webster.com

3 thoughts on “Obama’s Kamikaze Presidency Part 1: Domestic Policy”

  3. Gohawgs's avatar Gohawgs

    This (mis)administration is intent on weakening America by any means possible…

    And there were those that thought McCain would be the “Manchurian Candidate”…

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