November, 2019, Part 10, Political Class Insanity: Legal Idiocy From A Congressman, Pensions Funds' Dire Financial Straits and Hillary Clinton's Delusions

It is another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

Let’s get started:

1) We will classify this first instance of political class insanity as “are you that stupid?” When prosecutors want to prosecute a potential criminal, they usually cannot rely on hearsay testimony and evidence. Why? Because the person giving the hearsay evidence could just be making it up for whatever reason they want. 

For example, let’s say I don’t like my neighbor so I am going to say my neighbor tortured and killed a dog. Police cannot find any evidence of the dead dog’s remains, there is no video proof of the torture, there is not a long record of animal abuse, no one reported a missing dog, etc. All the police have is my hearsay word that my neighbor is so evil that he killed a dog. This case would never see the light of day in a courtroom since there is no direct evidence.

But according to a current U.S.Congressman, hearsay evidence without any direct evidence is a pretty good deal:

• According to Ryan Saavedra, writing for the Daily Wire website, a Democratic Congressman, commenting on the lack of hard proof that Trump committed any impeachment offense, said that “hearsay evidence can be much better evidence than direct evidence.” [my emphasis added.]
• This is the nonsensical opinion of Democratic Congressman Mike Quigley relative to the impeachment witch hunt currently underway in D.C.
• Specifically: “And, if gets to closed primer on hearsay, I think the American public needs to be reminded that countless people have been convicted on hearsay because the courts have routinely allowed and created, needed exceptions to hearsay. Hearsay can be much better evidence than direct … and it’s certainly valid in this instance.”
• Hearsay evidence is NEVER better than direct evidence regardless of his stupid assumption on criminal acts and behavior.
• In our dog example above, in Quigley’s world the word of an irate neighbor would be better than having video, forensic, or other direct proof that the neighbor killed the dog.
• And why is hearsay evidence so much more “valid in this instance” vs. any other instance?
• Fortunately, real Americans realize what stupidity this is and reacted accordingly: “Can you believe this insanity? ‘Hearsay can be much better evidence than DIRECT EVIDENCE’ according to Democrat Mike Quigley: "Are you fricken kidding me? 3rd and 4th party info better than hearing it yourself?”
• “From a reliable 4th party source according to other Democrats like #FullOfSchiff the best evidence is (is) shit you just make up for political gain as that appears to be what they have been doing all along.”
• "Uh?"
• “So not only are the Democrats ADMITTING their entire impeachment sham is based off of hearsay, but now they're trying to defend it. What a joke!”
• “Sounds exactly like what someone would say when they’re desperate and have no actual evidence…”
• “Just want to add that these lawmakers who say “hearsay can be much better evidence than direct” are the same ones who want to subject you to a due process-less red flag system. I’m sure that will just stop with guns, right? You still cool with that?”

This kind of nonsense and stupidity would be funny if it was not so serious and dangerous to our democracy and liberties. In this Congressman’s eyes, if someone does not like you, that is reason enough to subject you to criminal investigations and punishment even though there is no actual direct evidence you did anything wrong. As someone who took an oath to uphold the laws of the land he plays fast and loose on what has been a historical and successful road map for justice.

2) We have previously discussed the horrid financial condition of many public servant pension and retirement programs that local and state politicians have grossly mismanaged over the years. These pension programs have been severely underfunded with future unfunded liabilities totalling billions and billions of dollars.

Eventually these unfunded liabilities will become due and there will not be enough money to fund them, resulted in some or all of the following consequences:

• Pension and health benefits of public servant retirees will be drastically reduced.
• Taxes of all citizens will be drastically raised to fund the shortfall, resulting in stunted economic growth and financial freedom.
• Local and state governments will file for bankruptcy with unknown but certainly negative consequences.

How badly have politicians screwed up these funding policies? Consider some numbers from a recent Wall Street Journal article:

• Current state and local government pension programs have about $4.4 TRILLION in assets to payout future liabilities.
• That sounds like a lot of money until you find out that these programs actually have $8.6 TRILLION in future liabilities.
• Thus, under current economic trends and assets, state and local government have just over half of the amount of wealth they need to keep their pension programs solvent.
• And even these paltry numbers might be too rosy a picture since the average assumption across the country is that annual pension returns on investments will be about 7%, a very high and probably unrealistic assumption given that any future recessions could make the annual investment returns to be much less 7%.

The reason for this is very simple: politicians do not care about tomorrow or long term planning, they only care about their own, short term careers. Thus, rather than save for the future to fund these pension programs, politicians would rather spend that money today on wasteful programs and projects that help them get reelected over and over, the future welfare of government workers and their retirements be damned.

3) Margaret Thatcher was one of the most famous and strongest women leaders in the past fifty years. In fact, outside of possibly Mother Teresa, I cannot think of another woman who was as strong and as much of a leader than Thatcher in recent decades.

Compare Hatcher to Hillary Clinton:

• Hillary protected, abetted, and defended a sexual predator husband for decades, a predator that allegedly groped, had sex with, and possibly raped an untold number of women over the years.
• She publicly went after those alleged abused women to publicly discredit their stories of sexual harassment and abuse at the hands of husband Bill.
• She used the the Clinton Foundation as a money laundering operation to enrich herself and her family. 
• While a U.S. Senator, her legislative record is almost non-existent, since only three bills she was the sponsor of got enacted.
• And those three bills were underwhelming: one sponsored bill renaming a post office in a New York town with less than 2,000 residents, sponsoring bill renaming a portion of a highway outside of Buffalo, New York and the third named an existing brick house in Troy, New York as a national historic site which honored a 19th century female union leader.
• She was involved in so many scandals including, but not limited to, Whitewater, Vince Foster’s suspicious death, cattle futures fortune, White House furniture theft, Benghazi cover up, use of a private and illegal computer server in her home, etc.
• She has been caught lying so many times including the reality that she did NOT land under sniper fire in Bosnia like she claimed, all of her grandparents were NOT immigrants like she claimed, she knew the Benghazi attacks were NOT caused by an obscure video like she claimed, etc.

We could go on but you get the idea. She has been a vindictive, lying, and ineffective first wife , Senator, and Secretary of State.

And yet despite all of this trash that has followed her or been caused by her, she has the nerve to bad mouth Margaret Thatcher:

• In a recent interview she said that Thatcher did not even try to “make a positive difference” for women.
• Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea Clinton, had recently released yet another book, called “The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience,” and was being interviewed on BBC radio.
• The book did not include Margaret Thatcher as one of her gutsy women because Thatcher did not meet the criteria of “knocking down barriers for others” and “did not make an effort to help other women.”
• Specifically: “She does but she doesn’t fit the other part of the definition — in our opinion — which really is knocking down barriers for others and trying to make a positive difference. I think the record is mixed with her.”

Seriously? One of the most successful and strongest political women in the past decades and Clinton does not think that Thatcher was gutsy enough to exist and thrive in a man dominated field? That she does not even make it into Clinton’s book of gutsy women? 

Unreal. Just another example of an American politician being so out of touch, being so petty, and so vain. It was not Thatcher’s job to open doors for other women, It was her job to serve her country and EVERY citizen in that country. She did it well, for a long time, and honorably. Given the list of Clinton’s misadventures listed above, Hilary Clinton is NOT the right person to judge Thatcher.
So today’s insanity includes a former first woman who has no concept of what honor is, politicians have no idea how to manage pension systems, and a politician who has no concept of basic legal principles.

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Final Review: End Of An Error, Part 6 - The Many Failures of The Obama Administration: Tabulating The Damage

As the Obama Presidency starts to wind down we thought it would be a good idea to do a final review of the Obama era. We took an initial swing at that topic back in October, 2016 with a series of seven posts starting on October 9, 2016 with the following post:

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

Not unexpectedly, the review across those seven posts captured the myriad of failures of this Presidency. Diplomatically, economically, fiscally, militarily, legally, Constitutionally, integrity-wise,and in many other ways, in my opinion, this has been the worst Presidency of my lifetime. If you are a liberal, please read the posts, all of which are extensively sourced, before going off the deep end without thinking. This Presidency has stunk.

We started out this week by using some fine reporting and research by Reason magazine to point out how hypocritical Obama has been relative to abusing military power and how his actions have helped create a so-called “Imperial Presidency” which 1) abuses the rule of law and Constitution and 2) is now being run for better or worse.

During this week we have been looking at other folks opinion on how well Obama did as President It will not likely to be pretty, as the previous seven posts referenced above have already proven.

1) Frank Vernuccio, writing for the Affluent Christian Investor website on January 20, 2017, came up with the “20 Worst Aspects Of Obama’s Legacy.” While we have covered many of the same scandals and failures already, he did manage to identify a few that we have not previously covered:

- When Obama became President, China was a rising economic power, Russia was a fading international power and Iran was a small pain in the neck. Eight years of Obama has now seen to China become a rising and powerful military power that has plans to control much of the Pacific Ocean and its trade routes, Russia has taken over and threatened foreign lands, re-established itself as a major play in the Middle East while improving its military power, and Iran is a rising military and terrorist power. Obama’s foreign policy has been useless in the face of these negative international trends and as a result, the world is less safe.

And these foreign policy failures do not even include the rise of ISIS terrorism and the continued development of North Korea’s nuclear weapons capabilities.

- Although debatable, I believe that Iran’s deal with Obama makes it a bigger nuclear weapons threat in the future and what is not debatable is that North Korea is already a bigger nuclear threat than it was eight years ago.

- Obama has been mostly powerless in the face of our enemies and mostly unfriendly to our allies. It abandoned a missile defense for Poland, it insulted Britain by not sending anyone of importance to Margaret Thatcher’s funeral, it threw Israel under the United Nations bus, it encouraged the overthrow of as friendly regime in Egypt, and abandoned the Philippines in the face of Chinese aggression.

- We have covered the following already over the years when we pointed out that despite spending probably close to half a TRILLION dollars on the Pentagon over the past eight years, our military forces are mostly nowhere near to being combat ready. Obama forced capable military leaders to retire, creating a leadership void, and allowed Pentagon operations to deteriorate so much that museums had to be raided for spare military parts. 

- In Afghanistan, the Taliban now control more physical land area than any time since we came in and will likely re-takeover the country soon after we withdrawal our military forces, putting the country right back where it was 14 years ago.

- Despite steadily improving race relations up until the Obama administration, when polled today, the majority of Americans feel race relations have deteriorated during Obama's term despite he being the first African American President.

- While Obama claims to have created millions of jobs, the vast majority of them were contract work, part time, and lower paying, service sector type jobs. According to Pew Research: “The American middle class is losing ground in metropolitan areas across the country, affecting communities from Boston to Seattle and from Dallas to Milwaukee. From 2000 to 2014 the share of adults living in middle-income households fell in 203 of the 229 U.S. metropolitan areas examined in a new Pew Research Center analysis of government data. The decrease in the middle-class share was often substantial, measuring 6 percentage points or more in 53 metropolitan areas, compared with a 4-point drop nationally. The shrinking of the middle class at the national level, to the point where it may no longer be the economic majority in the U.S., was documented in an earlier analysis by the Pew Research Center. The changes at the metropolitan level, the subject of this in-depth look at the American middle class, demonstrate that the national trend is the result of widespread declines in localities all around the country.” 

Much of this decline was caused by government over regulations that place increasing complex reporting requirements on businesses or which discourage businesses from hiring full time workers (e.g. Obama Care), trends that accelerated during the Obama years.

- Obama and the Federal government took government spending, and overspending to astronomical heights, doubling the national debt to $20 TRILLION with no societal benefit in return.

- Obama violated the Constitution many, many times, from unilaterally changing the requirements of the Obama Care legislation to pretending that international treaties he signed were not “treaties” but “agreements” that did require Constitutional Senate approval.

- Despite being the first African American President, economic conditions did not improve for African Americans under his watch according to the article: “A Townhall and Gateway Pundit analysis reveals: What about poverty? In 2009, when Obama took office, the black poverty rate was 25.8 percent. As of 2014, according to Pew Research Center, the black poverty rate was 27.2 percent. What about income? CNNMoney says, “Minority households’ median income fell 9 percent between 2010 and 2013, compared to a drop of only 1 percent for whites.” The Financial Times wrote last October: “Since 2009, median non-white household income has dropped by almost a 10th to $33,000 a year, according to the U.S. Federal Reserve’s survey of consumer finances. As a whole, median incomes fell by 5 percent. But by the more telling measure of net wealth — assets minus liabilities — the numbers offer a more troubling story.” What about net worth and the black-white “wealth gap”? The Financial Times said: “The median non-white family today has a net worth of just $18,100 — almost a fifth lower than it was when Mr. Obama took office."

- According to a Washington Post article from last July: “The sense that America is more divided than it used to be is backed by hard data. There’s been a sharp spike in the contempt that partisans express for their opponents, according to Pew Research Center polling. More than 4 in 10 Democrats and Republicans say the other party’s policies are so misguided that they pose a threat to the nation.” During his time in office, the President engaged in the rough and tumble “Chicago Way” politics, using government facilities for partisan purposes and ignoring the considerations and ideas of those he disagreed with."

2) We have often talked about broken promises and/or outright lies of the Obama administration. The Grabien website put together a chart that summarized 13 of his quotes/promises and associated failures, from not working together with Congress to not cutting unnecessary Federal spending to not ending our military involvement in Iraq and Syria, etc. That chart and a video of Obama actually making those promises can be accessed at:

https://news.grabien.com/story-rewinding-tape-what-obama-promised-vs-what-we-got

3) One last discussion for today’s review. The following link will take you to a website that went through and documented over 100 lies and deceptions that the former President spoke while in office. It touches on some we have not already reviewed so there is some new material here:

http://libertyalliance.com/122-obama-lies-mainstream-media-mostly-ignored-25-total/

We thought that today would end our review of the Obama administration, an administration that I consider the worse of my lifetime from a military, diplomatic, economic, fiscal, and integrity perspective, based on the material we have covered over the past week and the reality that we live in today. However, we have one more source of review that we will go over tomorrow and then move on to other pressing matters and more political class insanity.

The Obama Era, Part 7 - Memories From The Worst Presidency Ever?

Late last year I thought it might be a good time to review everything that I remember about the Obama administration. He has been in office for seven years, seven long years that in my opinion have been horrific in so many ways. This was someone who entered office with approval ratings that were above 70% and who represented the so-called “hope and change” that many Americans were seeking.

This theme unexpectedly took four days to cover, that is how many failures, lies, threats, and narcissism examples we could list out from this President. The first post can be accessed at:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-obama-era-part-1-memories-from.html

Seven years later, hope has become very scarce and change has almost always been for the worst. Now, before someone says that I am just a sour grapes Republican, conservative, or neo-con, understand that I have never voted for a Republican for President in my life (I started voting in the 1970s). Up until 2010, I had never voted for Republican for national office in my life. I fully support gay rights and respect a woman’s legal right to an abortion. Thus, none of what you are about to read over the next few days comes from a Republican sour grapes perspective.

But unless you have had completely had your head in the sand or elsewhere, this has been the worst Presidency that I have experienced in my lifetime. From horrid legislation (e.g. Obama Care) to a failed foreign policy (e.g. Syria) to daily lawlessness on the part of this administration (e.g. use of unsecured email accounts by high ranking administration members), the ineptness and ineffectiveness of this administration is mind boggling.

Today, we will discuss more things that I remember from this Presidency, including the latest Pew Research results, in addition to the horror stories and disasters we already talked about, starting with the link listed above:

- I will remember that the American public rate “gun policy” and “climate change” as the 16th and 17th (out of 18 issues) most important issues in their lives while this President seems to focus only on these two issues most of the time, a bad misalignment with what Americans want him to do.

- I will remember that this President worked hard on a trans pacific trade agreement even though Americans rated that the least important (18th) issue in their lives.

- I will remember that Americans rated the “economy” as the most important issue in their lives even though this Presidential administration has been doing a horrible job at developing and implementing effective economic policy, given that 45 million Americans still receiving monthly Federal food assistance, 14 million Americans who are still unemployed or underemployed, national annual economic growth has never come close to attaining the long term annual average, and household income and wages have been completely stagnant during the life of this Presidency.

- I will remember that dealing with immigration has steadily jumped up over time to become the 11th most important issue to Americans, indicating that they are not happy with Obama’s immigration performance.

- I will remember that as Obama has weakened our military and meddled in military decisions that only experienced military veterans should deal with, Americans desire to “strengthen our military” has grown 8%.

- I will remember how the number of Americans view “protecting the environment” as a top issue has dropped 5% during the Obama Presidency despite the President’s obsession with the potential myth of manmade climate change.

- I will remember how this President promised “hope and change” but 51% of Americans now think that his failures will now outweigh his accomplishments with only 39% thinking his accomplishments will outweigh his failures.

- I will remember how independent voters have a massive 16 point difference between those thinking that his failures will outweigh his accomplishments.

Thus, the Pew results show that America also has a lot of bad memories of this Presidency, that I am not an outlier in my memories of how bad the shortcomings have been of this Presidency.

P.S. One last set of memories, based on the fact that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia recently passed away and the President of the United States did not attend the funeral. The funeral was held Washington DC, not an inconvenience for the President. It was held on a weekend, traditionally not a work day for anyone in Washington. Previous Presidents have attended funerals of Supreme Court justices so there is a precedent. It is not in the heat of an election season.

Thus, I will remember how this President refused to attend the funeral of a very important person in this country but did attend, and speak at, the funeral of others whose importance and contributions to the country was far less important:

• Less than two months before the 2012 Presidential election, Obama took time out of his schedule to attend and speak at the the funeral service of Democratic Senator Daniel Inouye, which much like the Scalia funeral, is being held in D.C.
• The President attended and spoke at the funeral of Democrat and former Ku Klux Klan member Senator Robert Byrd.
• The President attended and spoke at the funeral of Reverend Clementa Pinckney who was one of the nine people killed in a mass shooting in South Carolina in 2015 even though he had never met the reverend.
• Just six months after skipping the funeral of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and in doing so insulted our British allies, Obama attended and spoke at the funeral of former Democratic Speaker of the House Tom Foley. 
• Obama traveled to New York for the memorial service of Walter Cronkite, where he spoke, although he had never met Cronkite. 
• Obama traveled to South Africa to attend the funeral of non-American Nelson Mandela.

But this President cannot travel across town to the funeral of a Supreme Court justice. And this is so typical of what I will remember of this Presidency: if any event, including an important funeral of an important American, did not support an Obama political situation or feed his ego, he reverts back to being the community organizer that he has always been, whether in Chicago or in Washington.

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Part 2: The Next Twenty Failures Of The Obama Administration That Are NOT Gorunds For Impeachment and Removal From Office

Twenty More Reasons (Reasons 21 through 40) 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, are 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 laws under which they should have been operating.

We will try to make the distinction over the next 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 will cover those failures and disasters in the next few days.

After we go through the myriad of reasons that cannot 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. 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 go 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 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…

21) He has done nothing to develop and implement a long term and strategic energy policy for the country, instead wasting tens of billions of dollars given away to his political contacts’ and cronies’ failed alternative energy programs and shutting down the coal industry with no viable energy replacement source to fill the gap.

22) He presided over economic polices that have seen median U.S. household income decline for five years in a row.

Relevant Obama quote: “I'm a warrior for the middle class.”

23) He intruded into the auto industry bailouts that still resulted in the city of Detroit having to file for bankruptcy and for General Motors to probably never pay back the $9.7 billion still owed to the American taxpayer, contrary to the President’s reelection campaign themes.

24) His failed foreign policies have allowed North Korea to get five years closer to having substantial nuclear weapon and delivery capability.

25) His failed foreign policies have allowed Iran to get five years closer to having substantial nuclear weapon and delivery capability.

26) His failed foreign policies have caused a significant loss of prestige and honor relative to the U.S. in both our allies and enemies’ eyes. A loss compounded by the unfathomable spying on the governments and leaders of our allies.

27) He has presided over economic polices that have seen the average price of gas go up about 70% since the day he took office.

28) He has remained silent and allowed political allies to call his political opponents and ordinary citizens all types of slanderous and foul names despite his promise to unite the country. Those slurs include but are not limited to, a__h____s, terrorists, barbarians, Taliban, racists, Ku Klux Klan members, knuckle dragging Neanderthals, sluts, whores, among others.

Relevant Obama quote: “There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.”

Relevant Obama quote: “We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway."

Relevant Obama quote: “It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

29) He has failed to improve the tense situation in the Middle East, specifically the ongoing conflicts between Israel and the Palestinians.

30) He had no plan and not a lot of interest in quickly resolving the Gulf Coast/BP oil spill, given the number of rounds of golf, the number of vacations and the number of political fund raisers he attended as the crisis was destroying nature and jobs along the Gulf coats.

31) He has no plan for fixing the mess that is Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, who together have already gobbled up almost $200 billion in taxpayer bailout dollars, and he has no plan for the latest government housing entity in need of an almost $2 billion taxpayer bailout, the Federal Housing Authority (FHA).

32) He promised to run the most transparent administration of all time and ended up running the most opaque and paranoid administration since at least the Nixon administration, implementing executive privilege too often, hiding witnesses called to testify in front of Congress, persecuting more government whistle blowers than all previous Presidential administrations combined, hunting down legitimate whistle blowers and dodging legal Freedom of Information Act requests.

Relevant Obama quote: "My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government." 

Relevant Obama quote: "Often the best source about waste, fraud and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism . . . should be encouraged rather than stifled." 

33) He has failed to fix the massively expensive and stupid redundancy in the Federal government: 

• The Federal government has 15 different agencies overseeing food safety laws
• More than 20 independent Federal programs help the homeless
• 80 different Federal programs to help economic development
• 82 different government agencies work on improving teacher quality
• 47 different government agencies work on job training
• 18 different programs working on food and nutrition assistance

34) He takes all the credit but never the blame, placing blame on his failed policies and programs on everyone and everything from Bush to ATMs to the Japanese tsunami to Bush to the European fiscal crisis to Bush to Republicans to Bush, etc.

35) He has ignored the fighting going on Afghanistan and has not implemented a strategy that will withstand the withdrawal of Western troops in 2014, likely resulting in the Taliban taking over again and negating the blood and money the country has spent there over the past decade or so.

36) He has angered civilians all over the Arab world with his drone attacks on terrorist suspects that have ended up killing hundreds, if no thousands of civilians, including hundreds of innocent children. These drone attacks have not slowed down the growth of Al Qaeda and other terror groups while it has embittered civilian populations from Yemen to Pakistan.

Relevant Obama quote (from Pew research): "At the end of his first term, the level of confidence those nations [Middle Eastern countries‘ citizens] feel for Obama fell from 33% to 24%. When it comes to Obama’s policies, as opposed to his personality, the drop is even greater, falling from a high of 34% to a dismal low of 15%."

37) He has constantly reinforced his masculinity by staging dozens of photo ops with professional and college athletic teams but has had minimal photo ops with outstanding teachers, heroic soldiers, or other outstanding American citizens.

38) He embarrassed the country and his administration by not sending a high level representative to represent the country at Margaret Thatcher’s state funeral, just another in a long line of snubs against our allies around the world.

39) His failure to come up with a sane and compassionate drug program, continuing the long failing war on drugs, has lead to the continued enlargement and enrichment of foreign drug cartels who have now established themselves firmly throughout the country, peddling their drugs and getting richer.

40) His failure to live up to his campaign promise of not having high powered lobbyists in positions of power in his administration, a campaign promise that he promptly broke when he placed many high level lobbyists in his administration.

Relevant Obama quote (Anthony Holm): “More than forty former lobbyists work in senior positions in the Obama administration, including three cabinet secretaries and the CIA director.” 

Over the past two days we have come up with forth instances of Presidential neglect, corruption, lying, and wasteful spending, none of which are likely grounds for impeachment. They are only likely grounds for one of the worst Presidencies of all time. And the bad news: we are not done yet. We have another XXXX despicable embarrassments from the Obama administration for you tomorrow, none of which are grounds for impeachment.

However, after that, we will lay out the actual grounds for impeachment and removal from office, where this President knowingly violated actual laws and the tenets of the Constitution.

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