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Sunday, June 9, 2024

June, 2024, Part 2, Political Class Insanity: California Continues Downhill, Biden Continues Downhill, and A Democrat Goes All Nazi

 Every month we devote posts to just general political class insanity that is running rampant through the country. The members of the American political class Far continue to show that they are incapable of efficiently operating any level of government in this country. 


Even their best efforts are almost always ineffective at resolving any problem facing Americans. They spend a great amount of time not trying to improve the lives of their citizens but continually ensuring their reelection and enriching themselves, their families, and their friends in the process, all at taxpayer expense.


1)We have pointed out any number of times the sad, sad condition the state of California is in:


  • Businesses and residents by the thousands continue to abandon the state.

  • The homeless problem continues to get larger and larger with no solution  in  sight.

  • Crime is rampaging through the major state cities with no solution in sight.

  • The unfunded state government liabilities is closing in on one trillion dollars and the current year budget deficit is between $28 billion and $78 billion dollars depending on who you believe.

  • The tax burden on businesses and residents is among the highest in the country.

  • Gas prices in the state are probably the highest in the country.

  • The public school process in general in the state severely under educates the state’s kids.


And things are not about to get any better, especially when it comes to protecting state residents from crime and violence as we see what the governor, Gavin Newsom, is proposing in the latest state budget plan:


  • Newsom’s budget proposal cuts vital crime fighting resources, among other cuts, to fill a whopping $27.6 billion budget deficit.

  • He is cutting $80 million from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation department.

  • He is cutting $15 million from  the state Department  of Justice budget.

  • But he is increasing the budget for the Greenhouse Reduction Fund to fight so-called climate change.

  • He is cutting $97 million from the court trial operations, $4.4 million from county probation departments, and reducing the number in prisons by 4,600 beds while at the same  time cutting funding for law enforcement training.

  • Longer term though, he plans moving an  additional $3.6 billion into climate change initiatives “including transit programs, clean energy programs, zero-emission vehicle programs, and nature-based solutions programs.”

  • Keep in mind that while he is increasing budgets for climate change at the expense of all types of law enforcement needs, in San  Francisco, year to date, there have been almost 8,700 thefts, almost 2,000 burglaries, and almost 2,300 motor vehicle thefts in the city.

  • He has also reduced the budget for the Middle Class Scholarship Program and is reduced funding for homelessness prevention.


So rather than  address the problems of crime and homelessness in the state, the high cost of colleges for lower and middle class families, he would rather take limited resources and fund his pet climate change programs. A very, very sad set of priorities that will continue to drive more people out of the state. 


2)Anyone who has been  paying attention realizes that Joe Biden is in a steady case of cognitive decline. Whether it is senility  or, more  likely, dementia, he is very close to being a non-functioning person. He wanders  aimlessly in public appearances, he has trouble  putting two thoughts together, he cannot function  without extensive notes or a teleprompter, he acts out in violent rhetoric. 


This was made official by special investigator Robert Hur’s report when he investigated Biden’s gross mishandling of government documents. Hur concluded that Biden was guilty of breaking Federal law when it came to sensitive documents. But in his opinion, Biden was too far gone mentally to stand up in a trial. In other words, he was too inept to stand trial for violating document laws but not too far gone to have access to the nuclear weapons launch codes.


But a recent Wall  Street Journal investigation found that Hur was quite right:


  • The Journal  found that Biden is struggling to function in closed door meetings  with government  officials and members of Congress.

  • It was so  bad that  some people interviewed by the Journal wondered if Biden was even  awake during the meetings.

  • These findings were the result of interviewing dozens of people all along the political  spectrum, many of which expressed serious concerns about Biden’s  mental  fitness.

  • In a funding meeting regarding the fighting between Ukraine and Russia, the Journal found that Biden “paused for extended periods and sometimes closed his eyes for so long that some in the room wondered whether he had tuned out.”

  • During that same meeting Biden hardly said anything, letting his aides do the talking, and when he did speak those at the meeting could hardly hear him given how softly he was speaking.

  • According to one attendee: “You couldn’t be there and not feel uncomfortable. I’ll just say that.”

  • He also lashed out in a very un-Presidential manner when he yelled at House Speaker Mike Johnson that “I’ve forgotten more about immigration than you’ll ever know.”

  • Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said that when he dealt with Biden on negotiating to avoid a federal government shutdown, Biden “would ramble” and was not able to negotiate.


Just another piece of obvious evidence that Biden is no longer fit to be President, his mental facilities are shot. And that is why the country is in such lousy shape along every dimension possible: inflation, economic malaise, high gas and food prices, failed diplomacy around the world from the Middle east to Ukraine to China, failed immigration policies that has endangered Amricans lives, the list goes on and on and Biden has no clue to what is going on, never mind fixing what he broke.


3)We have  very little respect for the American political class. They usually cause more problems and heartache than they fix and often seem to be in office not to resolve problems but solely for self enrichment. But their evil  goes deeper than this, as witnessed by the statement of a recent politician:


  • Paula Collins is a Democratic Congressional candidate in New York.

  • Rather than engage in mature, adult conversation and debate regarding issues that are facing most Americans, Collins went low and disgusting.

  • She recently suggested that Trump supporters needed to be sent to “re-education camps” after the November presidential elections.

  • Specifically: “Even if we were to have a resounding blue wave come through, as many of us would like, putting it all back together again after we’ve gone through this MAGA nightmare and re-educating basically, which, that sounds like a rather, a re-education camp. I don’t think we really want call it that. I’m sure we can find another way to phrase it.”


Seriously, what a despicable thing to say about Americans exercising their First Amendment rights. How this does not smack of Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s when millions of people were rounded up by the government and sent to “camps.”  Unbelievable and disgusting that an American politician would stoop so low and violently against American citizens.


That will do it for today’s insanity: A Democratic Congressional candidate goes all Nazi-like, Biden continues to sink into the throes of dementia, and California politicians care more about the mythical  climate change issue than the physical safety and welfare of their own citizens.


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Monday, January 11, 2021

January, 2021, Part 2, Political Class Insanity: More Doubts About Global Warming, ABC News Goes Nazi, and Cuomo Screws up Again

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.

1) For a long time I did a monthly set of posts under the theme, “I am a global warming doubter and a believer in science.” The basic premise of the theme was that global warming advocates, who morphed into climate change advocates when their global warming predictions failed miserably, only looked at research and opinions that confirmed their myths. They refuse to even consider that maybe global warming was not the bad thing, or anything, they thought it was.

For whatever reason, there has not been a lot of myth busting that has had to be done lately on the whole climate change topic. I don't know why but at least for now the subject has been kind of dead. Thus, the article summarized below, while it would have fit into that overall theme, it is not enough to fill up a whole post. 

Thus, I have decided to kick off today’s political class insanity discussion with that article since it again shows how politicians’ global warming warnings, predictions, and doomsday scenarios never quite seem to happen:
  • Back in September, 2019, a ship carrying 16 climate change advocates got under way to measure how rapidly the ice was melting up towards the North Pole.
  • Good start, people going out to prove or disprove their theories, very scientific.
  • Unfortunately, their ship got stuck in ice halfway between Norway and the North Pole.
  • Keep in mind this was in September, the end of summer, not the dead of winter when everything is much colder.
  • According to the Maritime Bulletin: "The ship is on an Arctic tour with the Climate Change documentary film team, and tourists, concerned with Climate Change and melting Arctic ice. All 16 Climate Change warriors were evacuated by helicopter in challenging conditions, all are safe."
  • But this was not the first time this had happened, back in July, 2019, the middle of summer, another ship got stuck up there, too much ice.
  • In July, the ice was ten feet thick and chainsaws and the 20,000 horsepower engine of the boat in July could not allow the boat to push through.
  • According to Klassekampen, a Norwegian newspaper: “Polar bears were seen on Bjørnøya this past winter – located in the middle of the Barents Sea– which shows that the ice edge was very far south.”
Now keep in mind that Al Gore predicted that there was an excellent chance that the entire North Pole would be melted by about 20 years ago. Instead, boats engineered for ice stretches could not get through in the summer because the ice was too thick. Missed that forecast by a little bit, Al. For more global warming myth debunking by real scientists , not ex-politicians parading as real scientists, go to the following link:


2) We have often discussed how important a strong, aggressive, unbiased press is to a strong democracy. A strong press that acts in integrity, is the gatekeeper of truth and reality, both of which are needed to keep the political class in line and make sure our freedoms are not being endangered.

Unfortunately, the free press in the country today is anything but unbiased and in integrity. Various news entities have taken sides and present only news, and present it in a biased way, to support the side of the potential spectrum they are on. Rather than protect a democracy and the truth, they disdain democracy, reality, and truth, advocating for their own biased positions.

Unfortunately, such was the case in the aftermath of the Capital fiasco earlier this week. Rather than be an instrument of peace and try to understand all aspects and sides of a problem like real journalists, ABC News went all Nazi right out of the gate:
  • Rick Klein, of ABC News, said that: “Trump will be an ex-President in 13 days. The fact that getting rid of Trump is the easy part. Cleansing the movement he commands is going to be something else.”
  • He made this horrific statement via his Twitter account which he later deleted but not before screen shots were captured and circulated around the Internet.
  • He included his remarks in an official ABC News article, an article that was later edited to be less Nazi like.
Such cowardice, such ignorance of history. An American has a different political viewpoint of you and you immediately invoke the cleansing of Jews in 1930s Germany with your “cleansing” remarks. Put “ethnic” in front of cleansing and you have something Hitelr himself likely said. So sad that wanting the elimination of Americans exercising their First Amendment rights is now cause to have them exterminated.

3) The whole covid mess had been going on for at least ten months. The search for a vaccine has been going almost as long. Which means the political class knew that at some point in time there was going to be a need for a mass vaccination process to be implemented. 

But the politicians in charge had time. Months and months of time to set up procedures, establish websites and social media accounts to promote and explain those vaccination procedures, set up the infrastructure that could be put into action as soon as the vaccinations were on their way.

They could have done all of that, a process that should have resulted in the quick, immediate and efficient distribution of the vaccine doses as they became available. Being this efficient would like save lives and prevent untold millions from getting the virus.

But alas, being efficient is not in the vocabulary or ability of most American politicians:
  • Nowhere has that failure been as evident than in New York state and New York City.
  • Despite having ready to go vaccine doses on hand, both the state and city governments screwed up completely in not having processes and procedures in place to quickly distribute the shots despite the lead time they had.
  • The New York Times pointed out that on a recent weekend day, more jets took off from JFK airport in NYC than doses of vaccines were distributed in the whole city.
  • The failure to efficiently distribute the vaccine has been so complete that many doses have had to be destroyed because they were past their useful life, i.e. life saving vaccines were thrown out because they could not be distributed quickly.
  • Of course, as always, New York Governor Cuomo, blamed everyone else but himself for the failure to get the doses out in time and in a timely manner.
  • After his administration took some severe heat for their failures, Cuomo decided it was not his fault, again, and blamed the local governments for their ineptness.
  • He blamed mayors like NYC’s de Blasio to manage the issue: “I need them to take personal responsibility for their hospitals. This is a management issue of the hospitals. They have to move the vaccine, and they have to move the vaccine faster.”
  • He has threatened hospitals with stiff fines because he failed to provide a process to get the vaccines out as soon as possible.
Again, no creativity, no plan, just bullying and endangering the lives of his constituents, much like he did early on when he forced nursing homes to mingle covid parents with healthy elderly residents.

Consider what was done in DC when the vaccine supply was about to expire: rather than throw out the spoiled vaccine doses, the city government encouraged health care providers to give doses to anyone who wanted it regardless of where they fell in the priority listing. Better to get vaccines out to anyone who could get it before the usefulness of the vaccine spoiled. Rather than work that great approach to maximize vaccination supplies, Cuomo, as is typical, just bellyached how he was not responsible. Typical politician attitude, blame everyone but themselves.

As a side note, I recently read an article that in the late 1940s, the return of smallpox to New York City obviously created a health emergency. Within one month of the first smallpox identification, the entire city population of NYC, 6 million people, had been vaccinated. 

That is how incompetent today’s politicians and governments have become: 60 years ago 6 million are vaccinated in 30 days or so. Today, vaccines go bad before they can be used despite the government bureaucrats and politicians having nine months to come up with a plan. Insanity.

That will do it for today: another massive government failure and show of incompetency, the free press goes Nazi, and global warming advocates get stuck in massive ice jams… in the middle of the summer, proving again why it is sane to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science.

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Monday, June 24, 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Part 10: Her Disgusting, Repugnant Comparison To Nazi Concentration Camps

Over the past year, New York City Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has established herself as a human gaffe machine. Her inability to do simple math, her outlandish ideas based on an alternative reality, her economic ignorance, and lack of common sense has resulted in an almost daily stream of idiocy, inane comments, and ridiculous ideas that have no basis in reality.

As a result, most of our recent political class insanity posts have almost always had an Ocasio-Cortez piece of insanity. Thus, we have decided to separately track her craziness and idiotic takes on economics, business, government, and whatever else on a regular basis under its own set of posts. She deserves to have a separate effort that captures all of the ridiculousness she espouses.

The original format we were going to use was to start with a set of her original inane ideas and just continue to build on that initial list as time goes by. But after just three summaries of her idiocy and stupid ideas it has become obvious that we cannot continually add to the existing set of ineptness, that list would get too large too quickly.

Thus, each new Ocasio-Cortez post will have only the latest gaffes out of her mouth. To review her previous idiocies just enter her last name in the search box above.

Let’s get started:

Before we get to her latest, and quite possibly, her most despicable contemptible, and disgusting comment ever, let’s go back in history to World War II. During that time period Hitler and Nazi Germany operated a string of what most educated people would call “concentration camps.” In fact, according to Merriam Webster’s online dictionary, “Definition of concentration camp:a place where large numbers of people (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or the members of an ethnic or religious minority) are detained or confined under armed guard —used especially in reference to camps created by the Nazis in World War II for the internment and persecution of Jews and other prisoners.” [My emphasis added].

Again, most educated people would immediately jump to Nazi German when the words “concentration camps” are mentioned."

These “concentration camps” had numerous purposes including the elimination of Jews, gypsies, political enemies, and other undesirables and also to provide human hands and bodies to work slave labor to support the Nazi war machine. The people that were imprisoned in those camps were forcibly brought there against their own free will, were not allowed to leave, were physically and medically tortured and were denied adequate food, clothing, shelter and medical care. 

Millions of innocents were brutalized in this way, it was easily one of humanity’s worst moments in history. It gave way to the slogan ”Never Again,” as a constant reminder to never let this type of atrocity happen again.

But along comes Ocasio-Cortez with no sense of history and no sense of sensitivity to those families who lived through and survived the Nazi Holocaust. She recently and ludicrously and disgustedly tried to compare what is going on down on the border with Mexico to this Nazi situation from World War II: “The United States is running concentration camps on our southern border and that is exactly what they are,” Ocasio-Cortez alleged. “They are concentration camps. And, um, if that doesn’t bother you, I don’t, I don’t know, I like, we can have, okay whatever. I want to talk to the people that are concerned enough with humanity to say that we should not that ‘Never Again’ means something and that the fact that concentration camps are now an institutionalized practice in the home of the free is extraordinarily disturbing and we need to do something about it. This week, children, immigrant children were moved to the same internment camps where the Japanese were held in, in the early, in the earlier 20th century and this is, um, this is not even about a crisis for, this is not just about the immigrant communities being held in concentration camps being a crisis. This is a crisis for ourselves. This is a crisis on if America will remain America on its actual principles and values or if we are losing to an authoritarian and fascist presidency. And so I think that that is you know, I don’t use those words lightly. I don’t use those words to just throw bombs. I used that word because that is what an administration that creates concentration camps is. A presidency that creates concentration camps is fascist and it’s very difficult to say that because it is very difficult to accept the fact that that is how bad things have gotten but that is how bad things are.”

Alright, a few reactions:
  • These are not concentration camps, these are temporary places where the U.S. government has had to improvise to handle an onslaught of people from other countries breaking our current laws.
  • As a Congresswoman, if you do not like the current immigration laws and processes, then do something to change these laws rather than spewing this type of hatred and childish, whiny  rants.
  • It is my understanding that she has not personally visited these detention centers so she should just shut up until she knows what is really going on and the challenges that U.S. officials and employees are facing trying to follow current laws and protect American lives and property while having compassion for those they are caring for.
  • Would she prefer that all of these people being temporarily detained be set free in American cities and towns knowing that 4,200 of those being detained had to be quarantined because they had been exposed to mumps, 800 more had been exposed to chicken pox, and 100 more were quarantined because of exposure to both, is that her preferred solution, unleash these types of diseases on innocent American kids?
  • Unlike real concentration camps, if these folks were not violating our borders and laws there would be no detention places for these illegal immigrants.
  • Unlike real concentration camps, the people being detained for breaking U.S. laws are free to leave and go home any time they want.
  • Unlike real concentration camps, these folks are not being forced to do slave labor.
  • Unlike real concentration camps, these folks have a shelter over their head, are getting fed, and getting medical care.
  • Unlike real concentration camps, these folks will eventually get some sort of due process under the current immigration laws of this country.
  • Unlike real concentration camps, these people were not dragged out of their homes, forced onto cattle car type trains and transported hundreds and hundreds of miles to real concentration camps.
  • She needs to learn a little history before she starts equating this administration and President with the Nazis and fascism since history would tell her that mandatory detention on the U.S.-Mexican border for asylum seekers was originally started as a President Bill Clinton process that was continued under Bush and Obama so if Trump is a fascist than Clinton, Bush, and Obama are fascists also.
  • As always, she shows that she only cares about the THOUSANDS of people breaking the law on our southern border, who, as I mentioned above are getting free shelter, food, and medical care because of their unlawful actions, while MILLIONS of Americans are homeless, without shelter, hungry, and in need of medical care often because of no fault of their own, people she couldn't care less about.
  • As always, she shows that she only cares about the thousands of people breaking the law on our southern border and does not care that many, many of those folks are gang members, cartel members, potential terrorists, human traffickers, and other bad people, bad people that have already killed, maimed, raped, and robbed thousands of innocent Americans, people she couldn't care less about.
The fact that she would conflated the six million Jews that suffered and died at real Nazi concentration camps to thousands of law breakers at our southern borders who have not died is disgusting, despicable, and beyond belief.

As you probably figured out, I find her behaviors incredibly wrong from a history perspective, wrong from a sensitivity perspective, and wrong from her not having any solution to the problem, just more of her constant whining.

And yet when people like myself called her out on her insensitivity, rather than show a touch of humility and say she was sorry for seriously hurting and bringing up bad memories of families who suffered at the hands of real evil and real concentration camps, she continued to dig her hole deeper with this response: “And for the shrieking Republicans who don’t know the difference: concentration camps are not the same as death camps. Concentration camps are considered by experts as “the mass detention of civilians without trial. And that’s exactly what this administration is doing.”

She continued to dig her hole of insensitivity deeper by quoting one historian, Andrea Pitzer, who says the situation on the southern border is “a concentration camp system” and defines a concentration camp as the “mass detention of civilians without trial.” This is certainly his right to define this situation his way but these people are being detained until their “trial,” aka their asylum hearing, not without trial. Trying to split hairs definition-wise when you have insulted the memories of Holocaust survivors and then continue to harp on the same insensitive and disgusting comments shows an incredible lack of humanity on her own soul. Stop digging once in a hole, it does not get you out of the hole, only outs you deeper down.

She obviously does not get it. The people like myself who are appalled by her insensitivity are not “shrieking Republicans.” We are people who are sensitive to the suffering of families who lost loved ones by the millions due to the real concentration camps. We are sensitive to the thousands of families who lost loved ones that were killed because of illegal criminal immigrants who got across the border. Enough with the hate mongering Congresswoman, have a little bit of empathy for those that have suffered at the hands of evil rather than grossly categorize these Americans as all “shrieking Republicans.”

Ocasio-Cortex has proven time and time again that she has uninformed opinion on everything and is usually wrong on everything, from the simple definition of the unemployment rate to not knowing what the three branches of our government are to grossly misreading a simple Pentagon audit program to dozens of other gaffes and idiotic comments. 

Here is what some of the more educated, more expert people had to say about her comments and her lack of first hand knowledge of what is really going on:
  • Mark Morgan, Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement director: “It’s [her comments] completely inappropriate, it’s reckless, it’s irresponsible, it’s misinformed, and it’s flat out wrong, There is so much oversight in these facilities. I encourage the check and balance, I encourage inspections. I feel very satisfied that if you go to these facilities, whether it’s a border patrol facility or an (Health and Human Services) facility or an ICE facility that there will be safe and adequate conditions to detain individuals.”
  • Congresswoman Liz Cheney: “Please @AOC do us all a favor and spend just a few minutes learning some actual history. 6 million Jews were exterminated in the Holocaust. You demean their memory and disgrace yourself with comments like this.” 
  • Josh Holmes, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s former chief of staff, said Ocasio-Cortez’s comments were “an alarming and dangerous false equivalence that suggests a breathtaking lack of appreciation for the unparalleled evil of the Holocaust. Yeah, I’m not going to let @AOC pretend that she wasn’t making an equivalence to the Holocaust. When you say, ‘Never Again’ means something” after discussing concentration camps, you’ve removed all doubt about what you’re referring to.” 
Bottom line is:
  • She thinks she is an expert on everything but is a novice on everything she touches or talks about [don't believe me: dig some some Congressional testimony video and you will see she gets her head handed to her every time she tries to act like an expert]
  • She doesn't care about the health of American kids since she would likely release everyone from these temporary detention centers, endangering the health of kids across the country relative to mumps, chickenpox and who knows what other diseases.
  • She doesn't care about the physical safety of Americans since she would likely release everyone from these temporary detention centers including murderers, rapists, and drug dealers that are among them.
  • She doesn't care about the millions of Americans who are homeless, hungry, and in need of medical attention every day since she only worries about and espouses caring for those in these temporary detention centers who are getting shelter, food, and medical care every day, all paid for by American taxpayer dollars.
  • She is a whiner and not a problem solver, not visiting the centers to understand what is really going on or proposing changes to laws and processes that would change what she sees as injustice, just whine whine, whine.
When she got the small things wrong it was funny and that is why we decided to track her insanity and idiocy every month. But this latest outburst, which is a smack against Holocaust and concentration camp survivors and victims, attacking the people in government trying to do both the moral thing and the legal thing to the best of their ability under dire circumstances, her stunning lack of concern for needy Americans, and especially when it was pointed out that she had hurt a lot of innocent people’s emotions and memories she just continued to pour on the hate, showing a complete lack of empathy or caring for others' feelings, life experiences, and tragic losses at the hands of real evil, The Nazis.

All of this hate has caused us to stop writing about her in the future. She doesn't deserve to be talked about, giving her any coverage or mention for her insensitivities and hatred for everything American and human is no longer funny, it is disgusting. 

Note: after this post was written but before it was published it was reported that a number of reputable experts and organizations reached out to Ocasio-Cortez and offered to present their side of the case for why they were personally hurt and insulted by her heartless concentration camp analogy, pointing out that most Nazi concentration camps were actually and officially called “concentration camps.” 

She brutally rebuffed all of these offers, including an invitation to visit Poland to visit and an actual concentration camp, somehow ignorantly conflating these opportunities for education with white wing extremism. As a human being, her insensitivity and ignorance boggles the mind.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/23/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-refuses-invitation-to-visit-auschwitz-concentration-camp/

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Monday, July 14, 2014

Part 6, 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.

Over the next few days we are going to explore 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 final nine reasons (out of 122 total 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. The first set of the 122 reasons can be accessed at:


The final nine reasons are a little different than the first 113. These last nine are potential reasons for impeachment and removal from office since they are currently just accusations and "what-ifs," they are not actual acts of incompetence and lawlessness that the first 113 reasons were. However, they are included since they probably also contribute to the feeling that this is an inept and corrupt administration, even if these unproven accusations turn out to be false. In life, as in politics, perception is everything, and there is a strong perception that the following accusations are indeed true, which cannot help any President's approval ratings:

114) Is the President in violation of Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution, i.e. is he naturally born citizen, given his application to college which stated he was foreign born, inconsistencies on his alleged birth certificate, the fact that he has a Social Security number from a dead Connecticut citizen who never lived in the President’s home state of Hawaii, and a Federal judge that has ruled an investigation into the matter can go forward? 

115) Has the President illegally violated existing immigration law by not stridently enforcing the security of our border with Mexico? 

116) Has this administration broken any domestic or international laws by spying on the government and personal phones and communications of world leaders, allies and foes alike? 

117) Did this administration and President enable illegal voting tampering since it intentionally went out of its way to gut voter ID laws for no reason, tolerated computer “glitches” that may have switched voters’ votes, encouraged people like the convicted poll worker in Ohio who cast multiple votes for the President, and other suspicious voting irregularities across the country, all of which seem to favor the President’s election chances? 

118) Was this administration behind the break in and robbery of the law office of Schulman and Mathias who were representing the legal interests of Aurelia Fedenism, a State Department Inspector who leaked embarrassing government information on State Department criminal investigations? The robbery is especially suspicious since only computers and files were taken, the robbers leaving behind many other more valuable item including high end video equipment and silver bars. 

119) Will the President eventually send U.S. military resources into battle in Syria, as he was threatened, or back into Iraq, a potential violation of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution? 

120) Will the President allow the U.S. government to default on its debt as he once threatened even though there is more than enough tax money flowing into the Federal government to pay off the debt, a potential violation of the Fourteenth Amendment? 

121) Will the President make good his threat to use his “pen and phone” to bypass Congress, a severe violation of the Article II, Sections 1, 3 and 4 of the Constitution.

122) Has the administration broken the law as it applies to the Posse Comitatus Law by creating a domestic military force via heavily armed Department of Homeland Security and IRS personnel or by the militarization of local police forces by providing them with military grade technology and weaponry, a scary parallel to the Nazi SS forces of Hitler's Germany.

Wow, 122 reasons, spread over six days, that pretty much makes the case that we are indeed living through the worst Presidency since 1945, as verified by a recent Quinnipiac public opinion poll. These 122 reasons lay out a systematic approach to verifying the poll's results. While many Americans might disagree with the poll's findings, they probably have not gone through the many reasons why a plurality of Americans agree with the findings.

Now, to be fair to the current President, others that came before him in the White House did not or could not fix the problems that President Obama has also been unwilling or unable to fix. Bringing peace to the Israeli/Palestinian situation has eluded every President since 1948. Wasteful and fraudulent government spending, while it has probably accelerated during the Obama administration, has been an unsolved problem with all previous Presidents. So yes, his incompetence in these areas is a shared incompetence with the last 70 years of Presidents.

 But the problems of this administration go so much further and deeper:
  • Our public schools have gotten worse in educating our kids over the past five and a half years and this administration has no plans or strategy for turning that situation around.
  • Our border security situation has gotten worse over the past five and a half years and this administration has no plans or strategy for turning that situation around, as witnessed by the humanitarian crisis currently going at our southern border.
  • Our lost war on drugs has gotten worse over the past five and a half years and this administration has no plans or strategy for turning that situation around, as witnessed by the increased reach, violence, and wealth of the drug cartels.
  • Our energy situation has gotten worse over the past five and a half years with gas pump prices almost doubling during that time and this administration has no plans or strategy for turning around that situation around, having wasted tens of billions of dollars on crony infested and failed alternative energy companies like Solyndra and having delayed the Keystone pipeline for purely election and political reasons.
  • Our anemic economic growth reality and prospects have gotten worse over the past five and a half years and this administration has no plans or strategy for turning that situation around, as witnessed by record numbers of Americans being unemployed or under employed for a record amount of time.
  • Out national debt situation has gotten far worse over the past five and a half years with the national debt already up about 80% during the first part of this administration, setting records for trillion dollar plus annual spending deficits.
  • Our national health care costs have started to accelerate upwards again at higher rates AFTER the inept implementation of Obama Care, a piece of legislation that was supposed to reduce health care costs and increase health care quality but in reality is causing health care costs to rise while at the same time reducing health care quality.
  • Our foreign policy strategies and policies have been disasters or non existent over the past five and a half years as we have alienated our allies by spying on them and their leaders or provided only weak verbal support without a strategy to back up our promises, which in turn has emboldened our strategic opponents, namely Russia, China, Iran, and others to pursue their goals of power, territory, and wealth at the cost of our allies and our best interests.

In other words, the major issues of our times, illegal immigration, healthcare costs, lost war on drugs, foregin policy, etc. have gotten far worst over the past five and a half years, they have not even stayed at their same level of crisis. And for this worsening situation, we have overextended our national credit worthiness by ratcheting up our naiotnal debt to almost $18 TRILLION, or about $57,000 for every single American citizen, from our newsest new born to our oldest senior citizen.

Just this type of inept performance by a Presidential administration is probably enough to get it the worst ranking of all Presidencies since 1945. However,  when you add in the illegality, the corruption, and the unConstitutional behavior and actions of this President, actions and deeds that are indeed impeachable and likely prosecutable in a court of law for breaking so many existing laws and statutes, there can be no doubt that the Obama Presidency is the worst since 1945. The 122 reasons we have gone over this week prove it.

We started off this series to verify the validity of the Quinnipiac finding that the Obama Presidency is the worst since 1945 with the following saying: "Don’t tell me how rough the seas were, just tell me you brought the boat safely into the harbor.” After reviewing our 122 reasons over the past week, we can pretty much conclude that not only has the Obama Presidency not gotten us safely into the harbor but in some sense it has crashed us into the rocks offshore and we are taking on water.

Despite that analogy, this President, in his own mind, is still probably blaming everyone and everything else for the rocks being in his way even though he has had the helm for the past five and a half years. The only question is can the country survive the remaining two and a half years of the worst Presidency since 1945.

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