We will continue documenting all of the fiascos that continually get shoved on us by our politicians at least for the next few days. Afterward, unfortunately, we will have to return to do a series of Obama Care insanity and its disasters, a piece of legislation that never stops finding ways to screw up the country and its citizens.
1) When President Obama came into office in 2008, his approval rating was well over 70%. There was great hope for his administration to lead the country to better days. In many ways he was viewed more as a messiah than as a human leader.
Well, those days are long over. Despite being protected and coddled by the mainstream press, his lack luster performance in office, the lies of his administration, his mishandling of every economic matter and issue, his divisive rhetoric, etc. has thrown the country into a deep funk.
His total lack of leader potential and ability has even started to draw the ire and sarcasm of the mainstream press that once so adored him. Consider the recent naming of him to GQ’s “least influential” people in 2013:
He can blame Republicans in Congress all he likes and get away with it because congressional Republicans are the worst. But the fact remains that I have spent the majority of this man's presidency watching bad things happen, then hearing a thoughtful speech about how we gotta make sure the bad things never happen again, and then watching as nothing gets done. Next time there's an election, I want Nate Silver to analyze the data and tell me who to vote for so that I don't end up casting my ballot for a very eloquent hat stand.
But this is not the first time that he made the least influential list. Back in 2011, GQ had this to say about the President when he was the 25th entrant:
Okay, so we're cheating a bit with this one. He did order the raid that wiped Osama bin Laden off the face of the earth. But then he used that surplus of political capital to let everyone in Washington stick a boot in his ass. This is a man who should be the most transformational figure of the century. Hell, he promised to be that. Instead he wields all the power of a substitute teacher at night school.
When the President of the United States is quite accurately compared to an eloquent hat stand and a substitute teacher in night school, you can be pretty sure that the country is now officially leaderless.
2) The Washington Post reported on Congressional hearings back in June about excessive wasteful spending done by IRS party planners for an employee conference. Among those expenses was $64,000 spent on something called “plastic squirting fish” and $50,000 spent on a horrible Star Trek parody video.
Now this is wasteful spending but Congressman Elijah Cummings did make an insightful comment during the hearings, indicating that at least he realized how stupid these types of government expenditures, types of expenditures that are repeated thousands and thousands of times every year across the Federal bureaucracy, are relative to average American citizens:
“I swear to God, I have looked at that video over and over again, and I swear I do not see the redeeming value. I was up at 3:00 this morning watching it, because I was trying to get to the redeeming value. I couldn’t get there. I live in a block where most people don’t even make $50,000 a year, and still we can produce a video that has no redeeming value — none — and spend taxpayers’ hard- earned dollars for that.”
Kudos to at least one Congressman who gets it.
3) How badly has the political class mismanaged the economy over the past few years? Well, according to a recent article in the Business Insider, you actually have a better statistical chance of getting admitted into Harvard University than you do of being hired at a new Wal-Mart that is opening up in the Washington D.C. area:
- The store is currently combing through more than 23,000 applications for 600 available positions, reports NBC Washington.
- That means that Wal-Mart will be able to hire one person for every 38 applications it receives — i.e., just 2.6% of applicants will walk out with a job.
- That’s more difficult than getting into Harvard. The Ivy League university accepts 6.1% of applicants
4) Although most Americans would probably not describe themselves as “extremists,” most people probably just want to go about their lives as freely and silently as they can, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), they would be wrong. It seems the DHS is more paranoid and scared of average Americans expressing their Constitutional rights to freedom, liberty, and the tenets of the Constitution than truly scary terrorists and other extremists.
If you fall into any of the following groups of Americans, the DHS is probably following you, using many -so-called “fusion sites” around the country to do their Orwellian Big Brother job of tracking your every move:
- Military veterans
- Tax resistance groups
- Alternative media followers
- Opponents of open borders, i.e. those Americans who believe that those who illegally enter this country should not be rewarded with free welfare benefits such as housing, education, etc.
- Animal rights groups
- Environmental protection groups
- Pro life groups
- Anyone who shares the same beliefs as those that led the American Revolution.
5) According to a recent article in the Hollywood trade publication Variety, President Obama has nominated a television soap opera producer, Colleen Bell, to become America’s next Ambassador to Hungary. Let me say that again so that it sinks in: President Obama has nominated a television soap opera producer, Colleen Bell, to become America’s next ambassador to Hungary.
In most people’s minds, an ambassador is a vital diplomatic rank and position, traditionally earned after a lifetime of dedicated foreign service. It’s an important position and rank that few career diplomats in the State Department ever reach. Apparently, Ms. Bell has no such experience, training, or credentials and has never had any kind of diplomat experience for such an important government function.
However, while Ms. Bell has never been a diplomat, this "Bold and the Beautiful" producer has logged several years of service to Barack Obama himself. She and her husband, Bradley Bell, raised $2.1 million for Obama’s 2012 reelection, according to The New York Times. Yes, why should we demand and enjoy competence in important government positions when it is so much easier just to reward your political friends and financiers with plum assignments like ambassadorships?
She will become the latest member of Obama’s Hollywood political campaign fundraising team to be rewarded with an ambassadorship during his Presidency:
- John Emerson, who was the former president of Capital Group Private Client Services, is now the U.S. Ambassador to Germany.
- Political consultant, Noah Mamet, is a current ambassadorial nominee to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Argentina.
- Former HBO executive, James Costos, is the U.S. Ambassador to Spain.
So what insanity did we learn today? We have a “least influential President,” we have an IRS that wastes money like there is no tomorrow, we have an economic malaise that makes Walmart more difficult to get into than Harvard, we have a paranoid and dangerous Department of Homeland Security/Big Brother, and we have Hollywood entertainment types masquerading as diplomats. Yeah, this is all going to end badly.
More insanity tomorrow but until then, please consider joining our drive for Federal term limits in order to start fixing what the current set of politicians has broken. Because really, how much worse could it get if we started over with all new people in Washington:
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www.loathemygovernment.com
It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.
Please visit the following sites for freedom:
Term Limits Now:http://www.howmuchworsecoulditget.com
http://www.reason.com
http://www.cato.org
http://www.robertringer.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w
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