June, 2020, Part 8, Political Class Insanity: The 14 Major Scandals Of The Obama Administration, The Second Seven

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.

We are going to do a little retro today, much like we did with the previous post. For whatever silly reason, on a regular basis someone proposes that Obama was one of the greatest Presidents ever. It is an indefensible position on so many dimensions. We have previously talked about the multitude of failures of his administration:

The laws Obama broke:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2016/10/part-2-obama-presidency-end-of-error.html

The failures of Obama’s administration:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2016/10/part-1-obama-presidency-end-of-error.html

The hate inspired by the Obama administration

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2016/10/part-3-obama-presidency-end-of-error.html

But let's revisit some of his failures courtesy of Matt Margolis who recently published a review of Obama’s failures on the PJ Media website. His article was entitled, “Liberals Still Think Obama Was the ‘Best President Ever,’ Here Are 14 Reasons Why That’s Ridiculous.”

So let’s take a walk down memory lane and review 14 of Obama’s biggest failures [note: if you are a fan of Obama, try to come up with the 14 greatest successes of the Obama administration as you read the following, I am positive your 14 successes, if they even exist, cannot come close to matching the damage he did to the country via his failures.]

The driver of this article was the recent celebration of Obama’s birthday and some liberals' celebration of his failed Presidency. Apparently, Obama’s 14 failures were not discussed during this celebration (note: the first seven failures were discussed in our previous post):

8) Democrats and liberals got all upset when Bush initiated the Iraq War WITH Congressional approval. But when Obama started the horrific and illegal war in Libya without Congressional approval, Democrats and liberals went mute:

• Yes, Obama did basically start the war in Libya and the reason he did is still a great mystery.
• Since he knew Congress would never approve his war, he decided to do an end run around the Constitution.
• His end run involved getting the United Nations to declare the war for him and he then brought the U.S. military into play without Congressional approval to support the UN resolution.
• The Washington Times described this charade in that his actions “dilut[ed] the sovereign power of the United States.”
• His illegal military action led to the deaths of thousands and the disintegration of the country which led to the development of an ISIS terror region inside the borders of the country.

American tax dollars wasted, American service people put in mortal danger, the bypassing of the Constitution and the creation of a terrorist state, cannot fail much more than this.

9) As we mentioned briefly in our previous post, his illegal Fast and Furious program, the purpose of which has never been figured out, allowed his administration to pass over 2,000 weapons into the hands of the Mexican drug cartels. These guns eventually killed at least one U.S.Border Patrol agent and untold dozens of Mexican civilians. 

Once the operation got exposed for its failure and illegality, the Obama administration went into full cover up mode. His attorney general, Eric Holder, falsely claimed that he knew nothing about the operation. This led to him receiving a bipartisan contempt notice of Congress for failing to testify about the operation. Obama claimed executive privilege over documents requested by Congress to protect the coverup.

10) In 2009, Obama illegally fired Gerald Walpin, the Inspector General for the Corporation National and Community Service organization. He was fired because he dared to investigate an Obama crony and political fund donor, Kevin Johnson. Walpin allegedly found evidence that:

• Johnson had misused Federal grant money.
• The money was intended for use by AmericCorps but Johnson diverted it to his personal nonprofit group.
• He also allegedly used the diverted funds to donate to political campaigns and paid hush money to underage girls he allegedly sexually abused.
• When Walpin recommended charges against Johnson for violating Federal laws, Obama fired him.
• When Congress tried to investigate the filing, Obama went into stonewalling and cover up mode again.

11) As you can see, Obama was very active when it came to obstructing people from doing their jobs and rooting out corruption and law breaking. This was vividly illustrated in August 2014 when a whopping 47 out of 73 Inspector Generals wrote an open letter to Congress claiming that the Obama administration had obstructed investigations by not providing them the full access to documents and information they needed to do their jobs.

According to the article: “Such a letter was unprecedented, and the systemic corruption and obstruction of the inspectors general would have been considered an impeachable defense for almost any other president.” But Obama obstructed their accusations also, not allowing his two attorney generals, Eric Holder, and Loretta Lynch, from appointing a special prosecutor to investigate the charges.

12) Despite promising to take care of America’s suffering veterans, Obama came nowhere close to keeping that promise also:

• Obama claimed he would reduce the large backlog of veterans’ requests for medical and healthcare help.
• However, the backlog trend reversed in Obama’s first term and grew from 390,000 claims to about 884,000 in just his first term in office.
• As a result, the number of veterans who died because they could not get the medical help they requested and deserved skyrocketed.
• While Obama did nothing to help the situation, some sources estimate that 307,000 died while waiting for medical treatment.

13) Despite the Great Recession ending just after he took office and despite his spending over $800 billion on a mostly failure of an economic stimulus program, he presided over the worst post recession economic recovery in decades:

• There have been 11 recessions since World War II, each followed by an economic recovery.
• On average, it took about 25 months on average to recover the jobs lost during the recession.
• The Obama recovery took 77 months to recover the number of jobs lost during the recession, three times the post war average.
• And this horrid recovery happened despite that $800+billion economic stimulus package.
• Obama is the only President not to have had a single year of GDP growth of at least 3%.
• The only Presidents to have lower average economic growth during their terms were Herbert Hoover, Andrew Johnson, and Teddy Roosevelt.

Not mentioned in the article is that household growth was more or less stagnant for the vast majority of his term. An economic mess for the ages.

14) And last but not least is the substantial abuse of power he wielded during his term in office:

• He weaponized the IRS to suppress the First Amendment rights of millions and millions of citizens.
• The head of the IRS met with Obama over 150 times, much more than he met with most of his Cabinet members.
• He spied on the Trump Presidential campaign in order to undermine it and then have it investigated with bogus Russian election meddling charges, basically attempting a coup against a legally elected U.S.President.
• Multiple times his minions in the FBI and Justice Department, and possibly Obama himself, abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to illegally spy on American citizens.

So, after just two posts, we have pointed out at least 14 Obama era scandals that broke laws, abused the rule of law, allowed Americans to unnecessarily die, allowed foreign citizens to unnecessarily die, shredded the Constitution and trampled the Bill of Rights. To say his administration was scandal free is the height of ignorance or hypocrisy.

Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at:

https://www.amazon.com/Walter-Bruno-Korschek/e/B002KYU08Q/ref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

Please visit the following sites for freedom:


http://www.reason.com
http://www.cato.org
http://www.bankruptingamerica.org
http://www.conventionofstates.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w