February, 2016, Part 7, Political Class Insanity: Unsustainable Federal Debt, Unprotected LA Citizens, Obama Plays The Blame Game (Again!) and More

It is the beginning of another month which means it is time again to review the latest political class insanity from the American political class. Each month it takes us multiple posts to cover the wasteful spending, incompetent government organizations and employees, government programs that usually make a problem worse than resolving it, inane and idiotic politician comments, etc.

To review past posts on this insanity and idiocy, just click on the first few posts in each month listed to the right of this page. After reviewing just a handful of these insanity posts we think you will agree that we are currently being served by the worst set of American politicians ever to hold office in our entire history.

So let’s get started with the latest insanity:

1) This topic is from a few years ago but it is a good example of how today’s politicians are in it for themselves and not for the good of Americans. We have already discussed many instances how politicians ensure they get paid first when it comes to taxpayer wealth. 

Today’s greed comes from the California Political Review website in an article that was published on April 26, 2013 by Katy Grimes. Ms. Grimes wrote that U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein’s husband had been awarded a California railroad track contract:

• Her husband, Richard Blum, won the first phase construction contract for California’s high speed rail line.
• The winning bid for the construction was almost a billion dollars which comes out to a mere [sarcasm]  $35 million per mile of track that is to be laid between the not so mega-cities of Madera and Fresno.
• A billion dollar contract that goes to a U.S. Senator’s husband. Just a coincidence? If I had to bet, I would bet that it was not a coincidence, given the widespread corruption that exists within the political class today, corruption we report on every month. 

But there is also a bigger issue. The politicians in California want to build a high speed rail line along the length of most of the state. The first leg between two very small cities is coming in on an initial bid of a whopping $35 million per mile. Since no government infrastructure project has ever come in at or under budget, that $35 million cost per mile is likely to go much higher. 

And what is the cost going to be when they try to build a rail line in much more populated areas like LA? The costs are going to go through the roof. I will predict today that this endeavor will never make enough money to pay back a cost that is starting at $35 million per mile and future California taxpayers are going to be paying for this idiotic idea for generations.

2) We have often discussed the reality that the economic recovery from the last recession, as led by President Obama, has been the weakest economic recovery that the country has seen in a very, very long time. Despite spending (and wasting) over $800 billion on a so-called economic stimulus program, record low fuel costs for consumers and businesses, and trillions of fake dollars that the Federal Reserve pumped into the economy, the Obama recovery has been stained with the following realities:

• 45 million Americans still rely on the Federal government for food assistance every month.
• 14 million Americans are either unemployed or underemployed since they still cannot find full time jobs years after the end of the recession.
• Wages and household incomes have flatlined over the years since the recession ended.
• Newly created jobs have tended to be in low paying industries.
• The labor participation rate is at decades long lows, bouncing around at the same levels we suffered through during the Carter administration’s stagflation years.
• The true unemployment rate, the U-6 rate, is still almost 10%.

Not a pretty picture from an economic perspective despite the tailwinds of the stimulus, low energy costs, and trillions of Fed paper dollars. Increased taxes, thousands of new Federal government regulations, politicians’ economic ignorance, and the doubt that all of this injected into the economy has left us with a pathetic economic recovery.

And now for the real insanity: given that the entire recovery was run by and occurred during the Obama administration, a time when the Democrats controlled the entire Congress for the first two years of his administration and controlled the Senate for the first six years of his administration, whose fault is this anemic recovery? According to Obama and his recent comments, it is essentially Bush’s fault that the recovery has been so bad despite the fact that Bush left office in early 2009.

Yes, Obama still cannot admit that he screwed anything up, it is always someone else’s fault that he failed to deliver on his promises and duties. The reason why the latest jobs report was so tepid is that there is a lingering “hangover” from the recession in 2008 (eight years ago), a recession that ended well over six years ago. Thus, the reason that the economic recovery that he oversaw and managed and spent lavishly on has been so pathetic is because of what Bush left him with seven years ago. 

As we have said many times with this President, he fails to be a leader since a leader takes blame when things go bad and hands out credit when things go well. This President has not taken the blame for anything but is quick to jump into the spotlight when things go good. 

Note: for those of you that blame Bush for the recession, please refer to the following post where we explain that the seeds of the last recession were planted way back in the Carter administration (a Democrat) and cultivated by the Clinton administration (a Democrat):

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2012/05/who-really-caused-great-recession-part.html

3) A recent Washington Examiner article by Anna Giaritelli on February 4, 2016 reported on another Obama administration failure, this one in the area of criminal illegal immigrants. A Senate subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest recently issued a report that estimated the number of fugitive criminal illegal immigrants in this country is larger than the total number of people living in New Hampshire’s largest city.

There are an estimated 170,000 illegal immigrants in this country who have been arrested on various criminal charges but who have been let go into the public domain rather than deported. This number is larger than the population of Manchester, New Hampshire, the state which hosted the second primary event of the Presidential campaign. Only 110,000 people live in Manchester. 

The 170,000 criminal illegal immigrants is also larger than the population of 26 U.S. state capital cities. The 170,000 is also larger than the populations of such well known U.S. cities as Chattanooga, Tennessee, Vancouver,Washington, Salem, Oregon, and Kansas City, Kansas. In other words, the Federal government has released a lot of criminals onto the streets of America, criminals that should not even be in this country to begin with.

But it gets worse. The Obama administration reported that in 2015, its immigration function detained 63,539 criminal illegal immigrants, only about one third of the number of criminal illegal immigrants it released back into society. Thus, for every criminal the administration took off the streets of America last year, it put three more back onto the streets. In no universe can this be considered anything but an insane failure of the political class and the government it operates. 

4) Pete Kasperowicz, writing for the Washington Examiner on February 4, 2016, explained how really bad the national debt situation is, as reported by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in a recent Congressional hearing. This is particularly important seeing how the debt level recently exceeded a devastating $19 TRILLION. This comes ot to about a $160,000 debt burden for every U.S. family in the country, a burden that goes up every moment of every day.

The head of the CBO, Director Keith Hall, told Congress recently that the national debt trajectory cannot be sustained. Even an improving economy could not reverse the dire consequences that will occur unless that trajectory is curtailed by government spending cuts. Testifying in front of the House Budget Committee he said: "[Economic] Growth will help,” but “We're so far behind, it's hard to imagine that just growth is going to fix this deficit and debt problem."

The CBO is estimating that another whopping $9.4 TRILLION in national debt will be incurred in just the next ten years under current trends, about another $80,000 for every U.S. household. So much debt will make it hard for the Federal government to convince other countries and individuals to invest in U.S. bonds to finance the government operations and the debt it has incurred. This will require the Federal government to increase the interest rate it pays, further increasing the debt.

Director Hall went on to say that: "Over [the] next 10 years, we could see debt go from 74 percent of [gross domestic product] to 86 percent, then eventually to 155 percent over 30 years, which is a really high number." Yes, that is a really big number that makes our financial situation look like Greece and other countries that have spent their countries into a huge debt hole.

Hall also went on to explain how the Obama administration’s idiotic position that since the annual deficits are down to “only” about half a trillion dollars a year, life is good. First of all, half a trillion a year is more than any annual deficit incurred by any previous administration and second, the CBO is quick to point out that under the current spending scenarios, the debt will soon start climbing again and quickly get to a trillion dollars a year.

When pressed by Congressional members on what are the big drivers of this unsustainable debt, Hall replied: "The big growth in the deficit is from Social Security and spending on major healthcare programs. Those are the two big-ticket items that are creating this problem going forward." I am assuming that the medical programs he is referring to are Medicare, Medicaid, and Obama Care. 

Obviously, the Obama administration in its first seven years has come up with no effective ways of curtailing the out of control spending in these programs. In fact, I do not believe the adminsitration has come up with any programs at all including ineffective ones. But it certainly did add to the problem with the expensive and almost useless Obama Care legislation.

Great insanity today:

• The Washington political class continues to spend and indebt us to a future of financial insolvency unless radical spending cuts occur.
• The Obama administration releases three illegal immigrant criminals onto the streets of America for each one it apprehends.
• Seven years into this administration the President continues to blame everyone else but himself for his failures.

Funny stuff unless you are an under protected, over taxed, fed up taxpayer. More insanity tomorrow.

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November, 2015, Part 1, By The Numbers: Economic Numbers Still Reek

This is the first post this month as we continue our periodic discussion of “by the numbers.” We do this theme occasionally where we look at the reality of the numbers in the world and not the lies, deceptions, and spin of the American political class. I used to work for a boss whose favorite quote was: “There is nothing more devastating to an opinion than the correct number.” By looking at the statistics, trends, and numbers in our world we can cut through the politicians’ smoke screen to truly understand what is going on and hopefully, remedy the issues of the day.

The numbers we will look at this week will often have a common thread running almost through all of them: the views, positions, and opinions of the majority of Americans are often the exact opposite of the views and related actions that our politicians own. Since we are supposed to be living in a representative government system one would hope that the laws, rules, and government functions that our politicians oversee reflect the thinking, hopes, and views of the American citizenry.

The latest monthly economic results are out and for the most part they still stink, a reality that seems to occur to the Obama economic realities every month. And while some people might try real hard to find some good news in the latest monthly statistics and numbers, the overall picture continues to be gloomy for the national economy and Americans, as we continue to suffer through the worst economic recovery for a very long time:

• The good news, if there is any, is that the Feds estimate that nonfarm employment increased by 271,000 in October, more than what was expected, higher than the past several months and higher than the 12 month average of 230,000.
• The other bit of faux good news is that the “official” unemployment rate is still at around 5.0%. However, as we will see shortly, this “official” unemployment rate is becoming more and more obsolete as more and more Americans become too discouraged to even look for a job and drop out of the workforce, skewing the official unemployment rate lower than it has been historically, as measured by the labor force participation rate.
• The official number of unemployed Americans was unchanged at a whopping 7.9 million people. This does not include those folks that have left the workforce because of discouragement in looking for a job.
• The number of long term (out of a job for more than 27 weeks) unemployed Americans was unchanged at 2.1 million.
• The critical measurement of labor force participation rate was unchanged at 62.4% as it continues to bump along at depressing low levels not seen since the Carter Presidency years almost 40 years ago.
• The employment-population ratio was stuck at depressing low level of 59.3%, basically unchanged over the past year according to the government analysis and write up.
• The number of people employed part time for “economic reasons,” i.e. involuntary part time workers who would like a fulltime job but cannot find one, dropped a little to finish at 5.8 million Americans in October. 
• Over the past year this category of has decreased by 1.2 million people which is good news if they got full time jobs or bad news if they got so discouraged that they completely dropped out of the workforce.
• Thus, between the totally unemployed and the involuntary part time employed, there are almost 14 million (13.7) Americans who cannot find a full time job they want. This does NOT include the millions that have dropped out of the workforce altogether.
• The overall African-American unemployment rate was 9.2% in October, almost double the total unemployment rate of 5.0% and definitely more than double the rate of white unemployment rate of 4.4%.
• The unemployment rate for Hispanic Americans was about 25% higher than the total unemployment rate, 6.3%.

Here’s the thing about the supposedly good monthly job numbers over the past year. If the average number of new jobs created per month was 230,000, than over the past year the Obama economic policies generated about 2.76 million nonfarm jobs. However, over the past five years or so, the U.S. adult population has grown about by about 2.5 million adults every year. 

So at best, at a run rate of 230,000 jobs a month, the number of new jobs barely beat out the number of incremental adults in the population by about 300,000. At this rate, it would take about 46 years to get those 13.7 million unemployed or involuntary part time employed to find a full time job, assuming no currently employed people lost their jobs and we do not get hit with a recession in those 46 years. (13.7 million divided by the incremental 300,000 jobs created per year beyond the growth in adults in the country is 46 years).

I know that that the previous calculation is little nonsensical but it does illustrate how sluggish and anemic the Obama economy is and has been. And if the above government results and my calculations do not convince you, consider that there are STILL over 45 million Americans receiving Federal government food assistance every month. Nothing says a bad economy like having about 14% of your population in danger of having a food shortage every month.

That’s enough numbers for today. While the numbers are a little better this month from an economic perspective, they still stink overall as we continue to suffer from economic ignorance and idiocy from the Washington political class. More numbers to follow over the next few days.

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June, 2015,Part 9, Political Class Insanity: Obama's Failed Promises, The Failed Promises Of Home Ownership Rates, Silk Scarves Or Bribes, and More

It is the start of another month which means it is time to review the latest political class insanity that the American political class has dropped on our heads in the past month or so. We do this review every month in order to continually prove our view that we are currently being served by the worst set of politicians in the history of our country. Their inane quotes, their failed programs and laws, their wasteful spending, their ineptness, and continued focus on their own careers and self enrichment at the expense of taxpayers is constant and disgraceful.

This month could be one of the worst ever, given the backlog that needs to be discussed. The insanity will cover a full range of areas where today’s politicians continue to disappoint and fail us. As always, the new ways they find to screw up is never ending and always creative.

Today is the ninth update to the insanity for this month:

1) Starting with the Carter administration and accelerated during the Clinton administration, mostly Democratic politicians strived to make homeownership more affordable for Americans. This lead to the Federal government, via Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, taking on more and more less creditworthy customers and their mortgages which led to the housing bubble which led to the Great Recession.

In turn, the Great Recession led to record high foreclosure rates, trillions of dollars of wealth lost in the housing market, high unemployment, major banks and financial institutions going out of business or requiring billions in taxpayer bailouts, and the American taxpayer getting stuck paying billions and billions of dollars to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Throughout all of this heartache, stress, and cost at least more American own their homes today, right? Wrong, consider the percentage of homeownership as reported by the U.S.Census over time:

Back in the Carter years and through most of Clinton’s years, the homeownership rate in America stayed pretty constant at around 65%. Six years after the Great Recession ended, after trillions of dollars of wealth was lost as a result of the housing induced recession, the homeownership in America is….about 65%. We have come full circle as a result of the political class’s actions in the housing market. And have nothing to show for it except a weakened economy and trillions more in national debt. A typical Washington program, no progress at great cost. Insane.

2) Followers of this blog know that the Washington political class has never been a beacon of integrity and honesty over the years. This reality was driven home again in a short article that appeared in the May 29, 2015 issue of The Week magazine:

• The House Ethics Committee is looking into a foreign trip that was made by ten members of Congress and 32 members of their staffs to Azerbaijan. 
• While the trip apparently did not cost the American taxpayer any direct money, those on the trip were allegedly showered with expensive gifts and tens of thousands of dollars in trip expenses. 
• The gifts included such items as silk scarves, expensive native rugs, and crystal tea sets with the travel expenses alone costing almost $113,000.
• The trip was secretly sponsored and paid for by the Azerbaijani oil company, SOCAR, who was looking to to have a gas pipeline project it wants to do with Iran exempted from the current economic sanctions the West has placed on Iran.

If Washington politicians had any sense of integrity they would have simply said “No” to the exemption request because that is why the sanctions are in place. Instead, they milked their positions and possibly compromised their integrity for a few scarves and rugs and an expensive trip. Pathetic.

3) We have covered the many failed promises, lies and deceptions of this President too many times to count over the years:

• If you like your current insurance policy, you can keep it under Obama Care. False.
• If you like your current doctor, you can keep him under Obama Care. False.
• Annual insurance costs will go down up to $2,500 for American households under Obama Care. False.
• We will go through every line of the Federal budget to root out wasteful spending. False.
• We will reduce the annual Federal deficit by half by the end of my first term in office. False.
• I will operate the most transparent administration in the history of the country. False.

We could go on and on but you get the idea, this administration has either failed to deliver on every promise or never had any intention of delivering on any promise, using lies and deceptions just for election purposes. And another one of those grandiose promises was broken according to a recent Businessweek article:

• In 2011, the President boldly stated that: “I’m directing our departments and our agencies to make sure 100% of the vehicles they buy are fuel-efficient or clean-energy cars and trucks by 2015. Not 50%, not 75% - 100% of our vehicles.”
• Fast forward to the Businessweek article: In the past six years, only  7% of the Federal government vehicle purchases have fulfilled Obama’s 2011 goal of 100% of vehicles purchased be fuel efficient or clean energy.

Close, missed this goal by just 93%. But I guess this is a better performance than the TSA which failed 96% of the time to find test bombs and weapons at its airport checking stations.

Really sad that whenever we hear Obama boldly state something, anything, we have to assume it is false, a lie, or will never happen, given his poor track record on everything from the budget to Obama Care to government vehicle purchases. Unfortunately, if he should ever tell us something important that is true, we are likely to never believe him, given his abysmal track record of false and empty statements over the years.

That will do it for today’s political class insanity and also this month's insanity. It is not as if we covered it all but after eight posts, and the depressing news that each post contained relative to the ineptness of America’s politicians, it is time to move on to other depressing topics.

Rest assured that the same time next month we are likely to have just about as many examples of wasteful spending, political greed, inept government programs, and who knows what new insanity awaits the American taxpayer.

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The Failed Presidency Of Barack Obama, Part 8: Previously Identified 61 Examples of Failure

Over the past week or so we have been reviewing the many ways and perspectives on how the Obama Presidency has been a total failure:

• We reviewed the many, many lies and deceptions of this administration and this President, from cutting the annual budget deficit in half to promising that you could keep your doctors under Obama Care to many others.
• We reviewed the many high ranking Obama administration officials that have illegally and immorally conducted government business, and likely government shenanigans, using personal, unofficial computers and email accounts, undermining the spirit and letter of the Freedom of Information Act, other laws, and Obama's own promise to operate the most transparent administration ever
• We reviewed the many instances where this administration has either allowed government functions and departments to continue to overspend but under deliver or allowed them to get even worse than when he took office.
• We also reviewed some past posts that we had done previously that laid out numerous reasons and actions that should have already led to the impeachment of this Presidency, based on violations of existing law, judicial rulings, and the Constitution.

Despite all of these analyses across different aspect of being President, we are still nowhere close to being done. Between today and yesterday we will have reviewed previous posts from January, 2014 where we laid out over 60 reasons why this Presidency is a failure. Yesterday we went through the first 40, today we finish up with the next 21.

While these are not necessarily grounds for impeachment, they certainly are grounds for failure, with many of these failures using Obama’s own words to show how far short his administration has fallen of being even somewhat effective. Afterwards, we will update that original list with many other examples of failure that have occurred since that early 2014 analysis.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2014

Part 3: The Next 21 Reasons That Are Not Grounds For Impeachment and Removal From Office

Twenty More Reasons (Reasons 41 Through 61) For Which Obama Cannot Be Impeached and Removed From Office.

Let’s face it, the country is not in great shape these days. We have a government that cannot even develop a website despite spending well over $600 million to do so. We have a political class that is more concerned with their own welfare and perpetual reelection than the general welfare of Americans. We have a skyrocketing national debt that will burden Americans for generations to come. We have anemic economic growth. We have a President who claims he has no knowledge of the multitude of scandals erupting around him. Major safety nets such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are lunging towards insolvency. We have lost the war on drugs. The list seems endless some days.

In these desperate times, a person typically wants to find a culprit and make them accountable. The most obvious culprit is the leader of the country, President Obama. Unfortunately, there is a difference between incompetence vs. high crimes and misdemeanors that would allow the country to impeach and remove a sitting President from office.

Having stupid policies and programs, and mismanaging them to boot, is not grounds for removal from office. Maybe it should be, it would save the country a lot of suffering, but that is not allowed under our current legal system. The voting booth is supposed to be for that purpose. In order to remove someone from office, they must violate any of the tenets of the Constitution and Bill of Rights or existing law under which they should have been operating.

We have been trying to make that distinction over the past few days. While many of us feel that the Obama administration has been the worse one in the history of our country, sinking even below the disaster that was the Carter administration, there are a load of failures that cannot be used for impeachment and removal from office. We have been covering those failures and disasters in the past few days along with today.

Those first two lists of forty failures can be found at:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2014/01/part-1-first-twenty-failures-of-obama.html

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2014/01/part-2-next-twenty-failures-of-obama.html

Today, after we finally finish going through the myriad of reasons that can not be used for impeachment and removal from office, we will go through a still substantial list of reasons while President Obama should be removed from office for high crimes and misdemeanors in the following days. Consider that list to be the list of charges that would be read at a potential lawbreaker’s arraignment. 

That list of charges would then go to a grand jury, i.e. the House of Representatives, where they would decide which charges, i.e. indictments, if any, would be brought forth. Those indictments would then be debated and voted on for conviction or non-conviction in the Senate. 

That is the process: arraignment based on likely criminal charges, grand jury-like action in the House to lock down substantial and provable violations of the law, Constitution, and Bill of Rights, leading to a formal indictment, and then onto the Senate for trial, based on the House indictments. 

But first, lets finish going through the many disasters and failures that cannot be put on the list of charges that are reviewed for indictments that are then part of a Senate impeachment proceeding. Keep in mind that you cannot remove a President from office:

• For having ineffective and/or stupid policies. 
• For being ineffective in executing his duties of office. 
• For being arrogant, narcissistic, and pompous. 
• For waging class warfare and dividing the nation into voting blocs. 
• For lying about his past or his promises. 

That is the reason that the following failures, and the many, many failures we have discussed over the previous two days, are not grounds for impeachment and removal from office; they may be despicable, they may be embarrassing, they may be wasteful, they may be outright deceptions, but they are not grounds for removal under the Constitution.

[Note: associated with many of the failures listed we have attached notable quotes from the President and other reputable sources to show how far and how quickly his promises and assertions degenerated into lies, deceptions, and failures]

President Obama cannot be impeached and removed from office because...

41) He failed to live up to his promise of reducing the obscene number of earmarks in the annual Federal government expense stream, with the value of earmarks at almost the exact same level of waste as when he took office five years ago.

Relevant Obama quote: “We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.”

42) He signed the renewal of the Patriot Act with little discussion or change, a piece of legislation that has caused a significant drop off in freedom and privacy in this country.

Relevant Obama quote: "We will revisit the Patriot Act and overturn unconstitutional executive decisions issued during the past eight years." 

43) His administration has, at times, incurred MONTHLY deficit spending levels that were higher than almost every other ANNUAL spending deficits from every other President including Bush.

Relevant Obama quote: “Today I’m pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office. This will not be easy. It will require us to make difficult decisions and face challenges we’ve long neglected. But I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay — and that means taking responsibility right now, in this administration, for getting our spending under control.”

44) He failed to foresee the Arab spring, resulting in an unpreparedness that has considerably weakened the American influence in the entire Middle East region.

45) His Obama Care legislation has resulted in many new taxes being directly or indirectly imposed on every American.

Relevant Obama quote: “If your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.”

46) The national debt has increased over $7 TRILLION during his first five years in office, imposing an individual debt burden of over $50,000 on every man, woman and child in the country.

Relevant Obama quote: Relevant Obama quote: "America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt limit."

47) Of his many lies, one the biggest lie was to blame Congress for the impacts of the sequester, an idea that he proposed, and an idea he later denied ever proposing despite the public record of his proposal.

Relevant Obama quote: “The sequester is not something that I’ve proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed.”

Relevant Obama quote (Bob Woodward): “What the president said is not correct [that he did not propose the sequester]. He is mistaken. And its refuted by the people who work for him.” 

48) In cahoots with Congress, he secretly signed legislation that modified the STOCK Act, a secret signing that allowed Congressional members and their staffs to again conduct stock trading based on their insider secret knowledge of legislation that was pending, proposed or possible in the future.

49) He allowed his administration to spend millions of dollars to buy fake Twitter and Facebook hits and followers while at the same time signing legislation that reduced the pension benefits of our veterans.

50) Despite wining the Nobel Peace prize, according to Gallup's international polling, 23% of world citizens in a recent opinion poll still view the United States as the biggest threat to world peace, almost three times more than the next nearest threat (Pakistan), and more than four times higher than either Russia or China.

51) Despite promising to have the most transparent administration ever, Transparency International recently proclaimed that corruption in the United States was growing faster than anywhere else in the world except Cuba, Dominca, and Burkina Faso.

52) Analysis of IRS records showed that 36 Obama White House employees owed over $800,000 in back taxes and over 300,000 Federal employees owed about $3.5 billion in back taxes but all of whom were allowed to continue to draw their full Federal salaries and benefits; which should not be a surprise since he nominated any number of tax evaders and/delinquent tax payers to important government positions including Kathleen Sibelius (head of Health and Human Services), Timothy Geithner (Secretary of the Treasury), Solis (head of the Labor department), Tom Daschle (who ended up not working for this administration) and others.

53) He broke his promise not to sign non-emergency legislation before it had been posted on the Internet for at least five days.

54) He broke his promise to televise the Congressional hearings regarding Obama Care debates and proceedings on C-SPAN so the entire country would understand what was going into the legislation.

55) He lied when he stated that the Supreme Court had never overturned any law that had been passed by Congress, he lied when he said the auto bailouts he supported prevented Detroit from going bankrupt (it did go bankrupt), he lied when he said that Al Qaeda was almost defeated since we now know that Al Qaeda controls more physical territory in the world than it ever has before including battlegrounds in Iraq that cost Americans hundreds of lives and billions of dollars, he lied when he denied saying that he had ever declared a “red line” regarding Syria’s use of chemical weapons. (relevant Obama quote: “A red line for us is when we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around.”), he lied when he falsely claimed that health insurance companies were the cause of millions of insurance policies being cancelled when in truth it was the Obama Care legislation requirements that legally forced the cancellations, and he lied when he falsely claimed that an insurance company had refused to pay for his mother’s cancer treatment. Note: the Obama Care lies are too numerous to mention here, please go to the following link for a detailed discussion of those additional lies the phrase, "unfolding disaster"int he search box above.

56) Three years after the Dodd-Frank financial industry reform legislation has been passed, less than half of the needed regulations required by the legislation have been written by the executive branch.

57) He vindictively shut down White House tours and DC war memorials during the sequester and government shutdown, claiming lack of government funds, but somehow found government funds to keep his favorite government run golf course open the whole time.

58) He insulted the families who had loved ones die or be wounded by the Fort Hood terrorist attacker, Nidal Hasan, by claiming they were merely victims of “workplace violence” and not terrorism; this cold designation resulted in those families and victims not getting just compensation for their losses and suffering while at the same time paying over $200,000 in government salary and benefits to the shooter and terrorist Hasan as he awaited trial. 

59) He refused to fire the IRS employees who lost $67 million from an Obama Care slush fund, he refused to fire ATF employees who lost over 400 million cigarettes in their position, he failed to fire anyone connected with the $600 million Obama Care website that did not work, he failed to fire anyone who was connected with the botched rollout of Obama Care including Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, etc.

60) He refused or did not care to rein in absolutely stupid and unnecessary government spending including research money used to build a robotic squirrel, development of a video game to simulate prom week, conducting pottery classes in Morocco, determining when dogs became man’s best friend, constructing a million dollar bus stop in Arlington, Virginia, keeping a dog handler (earning over $100,000 a year) on the White House payroll to handle the Obama family’s dog’s needs, keeping three full time professional calligraphers on staff, and other such extraneous, unnecessary and wasteful spending and nonsense.

61) He criticized waterboarding and secret rendition of suspected terrorists but then went forth and simply just killed suspected terrorists and collateral damage civilians directly by drone attacks.

Relevant Obama quote: "We will not ship away prisoners in the dead of night to be tortured in far off countries, or detain without trial or charge prisoners who can and should be brought to justice for their crimes, or maintain a network of secret prisons to jail people beyond the reach of the law." 

Let’s stop at 61 reasons. We could go on but you get the idea: this administration botched the whole Syrian civil war/poison gas debacle, tried to bribe a Pennsylvania politician (Joe Sestak) not to run against an incumbent Pennsylvania Senator (Arlen Specter), failed to take care of 200,000 veterans who are homeless on our streets, needlessly and recklessly stationed 2,500 U.S. Marines in Australia for no reason, failed to rein in a growing poverty level, etc., etc., etc.

But let’s stop at these 61 reasons that cannot be used to impeach and remove the President from office. They are 61 reasons to get you ticked off for mismanagement of the economy, mismanagement of taxpayer funds, ineffective economic policies and results, cronyism, insider trading, etc. But no matter how ticked off you get, not impeachable offenses

But that does not mean there are not impeachable offenses in play. And that will be our topic over at least the next two days, serious breeches of the Constitution and existing laws that do rise to the standard of serious “crimes and misdemeanors.”

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Eight posts and we have still not identified all of the reasons why this administration is an abject failure. More evidence of the failure in the following days.

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Part 5, Why The Obama Administration Deserves Its Ranking As The Worst Presidency Since 1945

A recent public opinion poll conducted by Quinnipiac University, a traditional and unbiased source of public opinion, asked a sample of Americans who they thought operated the worst Presidency since 1945. Barack Obama won a plurality of votes in that poll for being the worst U.S. President since 1945. 33% of respondents named him as the worst President over the past seven decades with George W, Bush finishing second at 28%. 

Both of them far outpolled who I generally consider the two worst Presidents of the past hundred years, Jimmy Carter (8%) for being a President who was clueless and totally ineffective, and Richard Nixon (13%) for simply being a vindictive crook. America has to be pretty disgusted with your Presidential administration when you are mentioned 2-4 more times than either Carter or Nixon as the worst President since 1945.

During this week, we are exploring the overwhelming number of reasons while this result for President Obama is not only rational but is well deserved. Before anyone starts with their counter arguments or disputing my list of Obama policy failures, criminal acts, economic ignorance, violations of the Constitution, and broken promises, keep in mind the following facts:

• I have never voted for a Republican for President in my life and I am over 60 years old
• Up until November, 2010, I had never voted for a Republican for national office
• In the first two years of his Presidency, Obama’s party was in control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate with filibuster proof majorities in both places, I.e. he could have done anything he wanted politically and legislatively without any assist from any Republican
• I am not saying that anyone else would have resolved all of the issues listed below but it is difficult to think that at least some of these issues would have been resolved by people such as Truman, Kennedy, or Reagan. The Obama Presidency has been so bad that just about every issue and problem listed below is actually far WORST rather than BETTER since the onset of the Obama administration.
• Consider an old saying: “Don’t tell me how rough the seas were, just tell me you brought the boat safely into the harbor.” In other words, a true leader takes the blame and gives the credit. No one forced Obama to become President, he knew the situation he was getting into. He should be judged on how well he managed the situation he inherited going forward. Unfortunately, instead of leadership and looking forward, he chose instead to whine, look backwards, and to blame others for his failures rather than focusing on moving forward from whatever adverse situation he inherited.

Okay, so that sets out the preliminaries: I am not a conservative, a Republican, or a neocon trying to tear down this President. This President could have done anything he wanted in the first two years of his tenure, he cannot blame the Republicans for blocking anything he failed at since he had a historic window of political opportunity. Instead of leveraging the window and leading the country, he chose to blame the previous President, the Japanese tsunami, ATM machines, and a whole host of other factors in the absence of Presidential leadership.

Thus, without any further delay and in no particular order, consider the twenty reasons why the Quinnipiac public opinion poll is probably an accurate view of why America rates the Obama administration as the worst Presidential administration in the past 70 years or so:

85) He illegally created a “shadow government” by establishing a so-call “czar” system in order to bypass the Constitutionally required Congressional approvals of high ranking government positions, violating Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution. 
86) His administration violated existing laws by failing to produce a Federal budget proposal on time in four of the first five years of this administration, violating Article II, Sections 3 and 4 of the Constitution. 

87) His administration illegally demanded monetary kickbacks (often exuberant kickbacks) from American organizations requesting government documents under the Freedom of Information Act, (FOIA), requests that by law have to be provided for free or for a very small processing cost, violating Article II, Sections 3 and 4 of the Constitution. 

88) His administration demanded that the Ford Motor company stop showing a Ford television commercial that mentioned that its competitors, General Motors and Chrysler, had received Federal bailout money, a violation of the company’s First Amendment rights. 

89) His administration coldly ignored the request for military help, help that was readily available, when the U.S. Benghazi consulate and nearby adjacent annex were under siege by terrorists, a siege that endangered the lives of about 24 American citizens and resulted in the unnecessary death of four of those brave citizens violating their pursuit of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

90) His administration illegally used resources of the Federal government to inhibit and harass companies (e.g. Gibson Guitar, Boeing’s planned move of jobs to South Carolina, etc.) whose political agenda did not line up with the President’s political agenda, abusing the power of his office and the executive branch for political gain, violating Section 2, Articles 3 and 4 of the Constitution. 

91) His administration intentionally violated the WARN act by telling companies to not announce layoffs that were in compliance with the WARN Act prior to the 2012 Presidential election, promising to pay any fines Act in the future with taxpayer money those companies may incur as a result of violating the WARN as requested by the Obama administration. 

92) His administration violated the Welfare Reform Act of 1996 by illegally allowing able bodied welfare recipients not to fulfill the weekly work requirements of that legislation.

93) He refused to fire Eric Holder, the Attorney General of the United States, after Holder testified before Congress that he was unaware that the Justice Department was harassing journalist James Rosen even though Holder had signed off on the harassing investigation, becoming an accessory after the fact of the crime. 

94) His administration directly harassed and pressured insurance companies and insurance company executives not to publish or discuss the very disappointing number of people that had signed up for Obama Care insurance policies, violating their First Amendment rights. 

95) His administration asked and/or forced contractors to disclose their political contributions be fore being allowed to bid on Federal contracts and projects, violating those contractors’ First Amendment rights. 

96) He refused to fire 15 IRS agents who illegally stole the medical records of 10 million American citizens, becoming an accessory after the fact of the crime. 

97) Failed to fire Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius after she allegedly pressured insurance companies to contribute to the promotion and advancement of Obama Care, becoming an accessory after the fact of the crime

98) Failed to fire Kathleen Sebelius after she violated the Hatch Law when she campaigned/endorsed a Democrat for office in North Carolina, becoming an accessory after the fact after the fact of the crime. 

99) He allegedly told the EPA to unilaterally set emissions standards and bypass Congress, violating Article II, Sections 3 and 4 of the Constitution. 

100) His destruction of citizens’ privacy via the massive and illegal spying of the National Security Agency and other government entities destroys the underpinnings of the Roe Vs. Wade Supreme Court ruling which was based on the principle of privacy. If this concept of privacy is destroyed by NSA and other government spying, i.e. if there is no privacy now in this country given that the government spies on every citizens’ electronic and other forms of communication, there is not right to an abortion in this country.

101) His administration violated the Federal Information Security Information Act (FISMA) by giving the Obama Care information systems infrastructure “authority to operate” even though it failed the required FISMA’s security control assessment. 

102) According to a Federal judge’s ruling, his administration illegally tried to avoid disclosure of a foreign aid directive. 

103) His administration illegally intruded into the General Motors bankruptcy proceedings to illegally rob General Motors bond holders of their due while protecting his politically friendly union interests. 

104) His administration violated the Solyndra loan agreement and illegally moved an Obama financial political backer ahead of the Federal government and American taxpayer in the Solyndra bankruptcy proceedings, resulting in the American taxpayer getting less out of those proceedings than legally permissible.

We will wrap up this extensive topic in tomorrow's post where we will review the last set of reasons why the Obama Presidency is the worst since 1945. We will also summary all 114 reasons in the context of what an abject failure we have had to live thtough via the Obama adminsitraiton, a Presidency that will leave the ocuntry far worse off after it en ds than when it began.

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Delusions, Narcissism, and Lack Of Leadership From Washington - The "Animal House" Of Politics

I am 59 years old and have been aware of a long line of Presidents in my lifetime, starting with JFK through President Obama. I lived through the incompetence of Jimmy Carter and the deviousness of Nixon. I was witness to the mental acuity deterioration of Reagan throughout his second term and the ineffectiveness of both Bush Presidencies. This ineffectiveness was also a strong characteristic of the Clinton years with the added perverted spice of Monica Lewinsky, Jennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, and others.

However, none of them can compare to the delusions, narcissism, and lack of leadership from the current political class, starting with President Obama and going down through freshmen members of Congress. I could probably do a whole week of posts on these delusions, narcissism, and lack of leadership skills of the whole Washington political class. However, in the interest of time, I will focus on these adjectives in light of the current President.

- Let's start with delusions. Was the President really serious when he told the nation that most rich Americans pay a lower percentage of their earnings in income taxes than poorer Americans, using Warren Buffet as a prop? A two minute examination of official IRS tax returns would prove that this position is a delusion or a lie, one or the other (double click on the graph to get a bigger image):

- Was the President really serious and/or delusional when he publicly told an audience that the Chevy Volt was a great car and that when he got out of office he would purchase one for his personal use? This is a car that has had a potential fire hazard problem, has vastly undersold relative to its forecast, and whose production was completely stopped just a few days after Obama stated these words?  

- Was the President really serious and/or delusional when he publicly stated that the Head Start program returns $15 for every dollar spent on it even though his own HHS Department had recently concluded, from their analysis, that kids who attend Head Start programs are basically at the same point in their development and brain power by the end of the first grade as those kids who did not attend a Head Start program? If we are to believe the HHS analysis, Head Start is nothing more than a Federally funded day care program with no inherent benefit over any other, non-government program. Why did the President think other wise?

- Was the President serious and/or delusional when he claimed that his big economic stimulus program was a success? The Congressional Budget Office estimated the final cost of the stimulus program to be $830 billion. The White House claims that this expenditure saved or created about 2.7 million jobs. Thus, by dividing the total cost by the generous estimate of 2.7 million jobs, you end up with a cost per job of over $300,000 per job.

How can this be called anything else but delusional when it costs so much to create or save a job? How can this be called successful relative to the average annual income of an average American household which is around $60,000, 20% of the $300,000 cost per job created?

- The latest delusion comes from the past week when the President offered these words relative to the Supreme Court's review of Obama Care:

"I'm confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress"

Two really obvious delusions with this single statement:

1) If Obama Care is struck down by the Supreme Court, it will not be unprecedented. I am sure that the Supreme Court has struck down or overturned dozens, if not hundreds, of unconstitutional laws throughout our history. All of these laws were passed by democratically elected sets of politicians. The  Supreme Court has an established and historical job to do, regardless of who is in office.

The President is a lawyer, he used to teach Constitutional law, is he so deluded to think that his actions and his laws are somehow special, relative to the history of our country? The Supreme Court has struck down segregation laws and anti-women laws and a whole host of other, unconstitutional laws that were passed by democratically elected people. The pending ruling on Obama Care is nowhere close to being unprecedented or extraordinary unless you are someone in a delusional state.

2) If you look at the voting math on Obama Care, you have to be delusional to think that "a strong majority" voted to pass Obama care. The vote in the House Of Representatives was 224 to pass and 206 to not pass. Thus, if just ten House members changed their vote, the legislation would not have passed. 10 members in a House of 430 members comes out to 2.3%, certainly not a strong majority to non-delusional people.

If you look at the Senate voting on the legislation, it passed with no votes to spare. And to get even that close, the President had to cut all kinds of obnoxious and biased deals with certain Senators who were blackmailing the administration for their vote in return for additional perks in the law. If there actually was a strong majority in favor, special, backroom deals would not have to be cut.

In addition, the legislation passed by the barely legal, but certainly unethical, process of reconciliation because the Senate did not have enough votes to pass the legislation straight up. When you have to go through the fine print of the Constitution to find a way to railroad through legislation, you are delusional if you think you had a strong majority.

Is he being delusional or deceitful or both? Tough to tell but easy to conclude that either situation is not a Presidential trait the country needs or should endure.

Let's move along to narcissism. Consider some definitions of what narcissism is defined to be:

1.self-admiration: excessive self-admiration and self-centeredness

2.personality disorder: in psychiatry, a personality disorder characterized by the patient's overestimation of his or her own appearance and abilities and an excessive need for admiration.

- Remember that this President set the all time record for international travel in his first year in office. He visited Europe, the Middle East, and other parts of the world many times. He gave speeches, met with heads of state, and generally enjoyed his time in the global spotlight while the country was suffering horrible economic pains back home. When your need for recognition and admiration around the world comes in ahead of the needs of your constituents back home, narcissism immediately comes to mind.


- This President has probably set the record for most photo ops with athletic teams of any other President in history. He does not just meet with the traditional pro sports teams of the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB. He meets with soccer teams, Olympic teams, college teams (including the Texas Christian University's championship rifle team!), etc. When you need to constantly remind yourself and the world of your athletic prowess and athletic "coolness," narcissism immediately comes to mind.

- Staying with athletics, the President annually seems to think that many in America care about who he thinks is going to win the NCAA Men's and Women's NCAA basketball championships. He spends time on his picks and then insults the whole country by spending more time being interviewed in detail on ESPN about his picks. With all of the major problems facing this country, why does he think his silly basketball picks are important to America? Narcissism comes to mind.

- I have always loved the old saying: "True leaders give credit and accept blame." Consider three somewhat related quotes from three different Presidents and then determine which ones demonstrate leadership.

President Bush speaking about the capture of Saddam Hussein (I have added the boldness, italics, and larger font on personal pronouns): "The success of yesterday's mission is a tribute to our men and women now serving in Iraq. The operation was based on the superb work of intelligence analysts who found the dictator's footprints in a vast country. The operation was carried out with skill and precision by a brave fighting force. Our servicemen and women and our coalition allies have faced many dangers in the hunt for members of the fallen regime, and in their effort to bring hope and freedom to the Iraqi people. Their work continues, and so do the risks. Today, on behalf of the nation, I thank the members of our Armed Forces and I congratulate them."

Now consider the words of Jimmy Carter after a military mission to rescue the Iranian hostages back during his term ended up as a failure: "It was my decision to attempt the rescue operation. It was my decision to cancel it when problems developed in the placement of our rescue team for a future rescue operation. The responsibility is fully my own."

Now consider President Obama's words after Bin Laden was killed: "And so shortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of my war against al Qaeda, even as I continued our broader efforts to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat his network. Then, last August, after years of painstaking work by my intelligence community, I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden. It was far from certain, and it took many months to run this thread to ground. I met repeatedly with my national security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside of Pakistan . And finally, last week, I determined that I had enough intelligence to take action, and I authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice. Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan."

It is pretty obvious who is the narcissist in this group. When the important news comes out that Hussein has been captured, Bush "gives the credit" to all of the brave armed forces members who made it happen. He takes none of the credit.

When the Iranian hostage mission goes wrong, Carter steps up and "takes the blame." He does not blame anybody, anything, of any condition, he takes the blame and responsibility for the botched rescue. (Personally, I am not a big fan of Carter but I thought from an integrity and leadership perspective, this was his finest moment.)

But when we get to President Obama, it is pretty obvious he does not have the Presidential timber of Bush and Carter, giving credit and taking blame. He takes all of the credit. Reading his words, it almost seems like he personally went in with all guns blazing to personally kill Bin Laden. It was his war on al Qaeda, his intelligence community, his direction, his decision, etc.

If this delicate operation had gone horribly wrong, I doubt he would have had the integrity and guts that Carter showed. Like any narcissist, he would have blamed someone or something else for the failure.

- But this is not the only time we have seen this trait in Obama. Consider his speech at the signing of the Dodd-Frank Financial Industry Reform legislation: "Now, even before the crisis hit, I went to Wall Street and I called for common-sense reforms to protect consumers and our economy as a whole.  And soon after taking office, I proposed a set of reforms to empower consumers and investors, to bring the shadowy deals that caused this crisis into the light of day, and to put a stop to taxpayer bailouts once and for all."

It is only after making sure everyone knew how much he had done does he actually credit Dodd and Frank for their efforts. A narcissist always has to be front and center and the focus of attention.

- Speaking of front and center. Consider the following picture from the so-called "beer summit" early in Obama's term:

This picture is taken after the beer summit and the three parties are heading out to face the press corps. Rather than help his elderly friend down the steps, the President is hustling to be first at the press conference while the law enforcement officer he had accused of harassing his friend is actually staying behind to help the elderly gentleman.

Being delusional and narcissistic is certainly not two traits of leadership you want in your President and President Obama seems to have plenty of both of these negative traits. He takes credit, not blame whenever there is a problem.

The economy stinks because of Bush, ATMs, the Japanese tsunami, Republicans, Tea Party members, the weather, it is never his problem or fault. The World Tribune reported earlier this week that Obama administration representatives had reportedly and formally told the Israeli government that Israel is responsible for high U.S. gas prices, not Obama or his energy policies.

In the spring of 2011, the Obama administration submitted a long term budget plan for the country that was so bad that it was unanimously defeated in the Senate. Rather than lead and tell the country the truth about the need to drastically reduce government spending to keep the country fiscally solvent, he took the coward's way out and submitted a business as usual budget that even his own Senate party members rejected. Certainly not displaying any kind of leadership at all.

A few weeks ago he submitted a 2013 Federal government budget that was rejected unanimously by the House of Representatives. It was so bad that EVERY Democrat voted against it. This was another leadership opportunity to level with Americans and lead them out of this fiscal death spiral we are in. As with the spring budget from last year, he refused to lead since it might cost him some votes. Pathetic lack of leadership, time and time again.

A famous line from the movie "Animal House" is uttered by Dean Wormer to one of the frat boys: "Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son." The translation of that line to describe this administration would look like the following: "Delusional, narcissistic, and unable to lead is no way to go through life." Unfortunately, that is the plight of this country under this administration, nothing more than a Animal House analogy.

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