September, 2017, Part 7, Political Class Insanity: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama - The Epitome Of Political Class Insanity...And Ineptness

It is the beginning of 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.

1) Let’s finish up this month’s political class insanity by reminiscing a little about the Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton eras. Hopefully, both of these failures were quietly fade off into the sunset (doubtful), finally realizing that the damage they did to this country, its citizens, and our democracy was a lot of their personal doing. 

Let’s start off with the Obama administration. In my opinion, his was the worst Presidency of my lifetime, stretching back to the 1950s. He came into office as a community organizer and left it the same way, never evolving to a great leader or President. I dare anyone to give me a single thing he made better as President, a single issue he resolved, a single great piece of legislation he supported and got passed:

• Obama Care is a disaster. 
• He never put forth any ideas or concepts that would fix Medicare, Social Security, or Medicaid, all of which are hurtling towards fiscal insolvency. 
• He allowed Iran and North Korea to get closer to becoming nuclear weapons powers with his limp “strategic patience” doctrine. 
• He never fixed the broken public education processes in this country despite spending hundreds of billions of dollars.
• His economic stimulus program was an $800 billion failure.
• His legacy includes the reality that the infrastructure of this country (roads, bridges, dams) are in worse condition after he left the job vs. when he took the job as President.
• He allowed Russia to arise again as an international power broker.
• He allowed ISIS to arise, and possibly facilitated the rise, to become the worst terrorist organization ever.
• He almost doubled the national debt with his budgets, endangering the future economic security and prosperity of generations to come. 
• He broke numerous laws and treaties without ramifications. 
• He weaponized parts of the Federal government to attack his political opponents and shred the Constitution.

But do not take my word for it. Consider the sarcastic list of Obama’s historical “firsts” as President of the country, as put forth on September 8 on the Break Time Daily website:

• First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.
• First President to have a Social Security number from a state he has never lived in.
• First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States Federal government by a major credit ratings agency.
• First President to violate the War Powers Act with his illegal and un-Constitutional intrusion into the Libyan civil war, an intrusion that helped destroy a functioning country and create a new haven for terrorists.
• First President to be held in contempt of court by a Federal judge for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
• First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party, i.e. forcing all Americans to purchase health insurance.
• First President to spend over $800 billion dollars on “shovel-ready” jobs when there was no such thing as “shovel-ready” jobs, instead wasting billions of dollars on idiotic make work projects with no redeeming societal benefit.
• First President to unilaterally, illegally,and arbitrarily change dozens of components of legislation (Obama Care) without Congressional approval.
• First President to by-pass Congress and implement immigration policy, i.e. the Dream Act, through executive fiat and without Congressional approval.
• First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.
• First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.
• First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.
• First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to claim that America is no longer a Christian nation.
• First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
• First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law (DOMA) unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
• First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.
• First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it could locate a factory.
• First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
• First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
• First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).
• First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office and illegally avoid Constitutionally mandated approval by Congress.
• First President in about 60 years to golf more than 300 separate times in his years in office.
• First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
• First President to spend over $100 million of taxpayer money to support his lavish vacation trips.
• First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
• First President to repeat the Holy Quran and tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.
• First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs Arizona).
• First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they “volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences.”
• First President to allow Iran to inspect their own nuclear facilities.
• First President to have blood on his hands from Benghazi.
• First President to stand up in front of the American people and the world, at the United Nations, and lie about the true cause of the Benghazi disaster, i.e. it was a simple video that caused the terrorist attack.
• First President to trade 5 important terrorists for a single Army traitor and deserter.
• First President to facilitate the Iranians to acquire nuclear weapons.
• First President to try to unilaterally enforce radical public restroom policies on Americans and American businesses.

I know that most of these items on this list of Obama “firsts” are true, we have previously cited reliable sources to back them up. I cannot vouch for all of them but would assume they are likely true, given the true reality of many facts we have already researched. Note: I dropped out a small set of “firsts” that the website included given that I found either highly speculative or strictly opinions, not facts.

But the article on the website did not cover some other Obama administration failures and dubious achievements in the area of fiscal and economic responsibility:

• Federal budgets that were 25% of GDP, highest level since World War II.
• Federal government debt rising to over 100% of GDP, highest level ever.
• Lowest labor participation rate since the Carter years.
• Lowest annual economic growth following a recession in over seventy years..
• Lowest home ownership rate in decades.
• First administration to run a trillion dollar annual budget deficit.
• First administration to run four trillion dollar annual budget deficits.
• Highest level of government dependency ever, defined as percentage of Americans receiving one or more direct Federal benefits payments.

To be honest, Obama had a lot of help creating all of these failures. But the failure of his Presidency is that he did not stop them and in most cases, he facilitated them. A total Presidential failure, based on the facts and realities he left behind.

2) Let’s move on to Hillary Clinton’s sad, sad history of failure. We have discussed the fact often that as Secretary of State she basically operated a crime syndicate out of the State Department. This syndicate and crime scheme allowed her to trade government favors and access for contributions to her charity, the Clinton Foundation, after which donors to her Foundation often had her husband, Bill Clinton, come by to their company or foreign government to give a token speech but receive hundreds of thousands of dollars each time for giving a speech.

But Hillary’s ineptness and greed and ego go way back in time. I have lifted a great historical summary of her checkered past off of a Facebook post by a guy named Robert Jones. I copied it and then realized I wanted to reprint it and now cannot locate the quote. There are so many Robert Jones on Facebook and he posted on a Facebook page that was not his own. 

Thus, I am taking a chance by copying it here without his permission. Hopefully, he is okay with it since it is a story that is well told by Mr. Jones and one that give anyone shudders if they ever thought Hillary Clinton was worthy and capable of being President:

If you're under 50 you really need to read this. If you’re over 50, you lived through it, so share it with those under 50. Amazing to me how much I had forgotten!

When Bill Clinton was president, he allowed Hillary to assume authority over a health care reform. Even after threats and intimidation, she couldn’t even get a vote in a democratic controlled congress. This fiasco cost the American taxpayers about $13 million in cost for studies, promotion, and other efforts.

Then President Clinton gave Hillary authority over selecting a female attorney general. Her first two selections were Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood – both were forced to withdraw their names from consideration. Next she chose Janet Reno – husband Bill described her selection as “my worst mistake.” Some may not remember that Reno made the decision to gas David Koresh and the Branch Davidian religious sect in Waco, Texas resulting in dozens of deaths of women and children.

Husband Bill allowed Hillary to make recommendations for the head of the Civil Rights Commission. Lani Guanier was her selection. When a little probing led to the discovery of Ms. Guanier’s radical views, her name had to be withdrawn from consideration.

Apparently a slow learner, husband Bill allowed Hillary to make some more recommendations. She chose former law partners Web Hubbel for the Justice Department, Vince Foster for the White House staff, and William Kennedy for the Treasury Department. Her selections went well: Hubbel went to prison, Foster (presumably) committed suicide, and Kennedy was forced to resign.

Many younger votes will have no knowledge of “Travelgate.” Hillary wanted to award unfettered travel contracts to Clinton friend Harry Thompson – and the White House Travel Office refused to comply. She managed to have them reported to the FBI and fired. This ruined their reputations, cost them their jobs, and caused a thirty-six month investigation. Only one employee, Billy Dale was charged with a crime, and that of the enormous crime of mixing personal and White House funds. A jury acquitted him of any crime in less than two hours.

Still not convinced of her ineptness, Hillary was allowed to recommend a close Clinton friend, Craig Livingstone, for the position of Director of White House security. When Livingstone was investigated for the improper access of about 900 FBI files of Clinton enemies (Filegate) and the widespread use of drugs by White House staff, suddenly Hillary and the president denied even knowing Livingstone, and of course, denied knowledge of drug use in the White House. Following this debacle, the FBI closed its White House Liaison Office after more than thirty years of service to seven presidents.

Next, when women started coming forward with allegations of sexual harassment and rape by Bill Clinton, Hillary was put in charge of the #$%$ eruption” and scandal defense. Some of her more notable decisions in the debacle were:

She urged her husband not to settle the Paula Jones lawsuit. After the Starr investigation they settled with Ms. Jones.

She refused to release the Whitewater documents, which led to the appointment of Ken Starr as Special Prosecutor. After $80 million dollars of taxpayer money was spent, Starr's investigation led to Monica Lewinsky, which led to Bill lying about and later admitting his affairs.

Hillary’s devious game plan resulted in Bill losing his license to practice law for 'lying under oath' to a grand jury and then his subsequent impeachment by the House of Representatives.

Hillary avoided indictment for perjury and obstruction of justice during the Starr investigation by repeating, “I do not recall,” “I have no recollection,” and “I don’t know” a total of 56 times while under oath.

After leaving the White House, Hillary was forced to return an estimated $200,000 in White House furniture, china, and artwork that she had stolen.

What a swell party – ready for another four or eight year of this type of low-life mess?

Now we are exposed to the destruction of possibly incriminating emails while Hillary was Secretary of State and the “pay to play” schemes of the Clinton Foundation – we have no idea what shoe will fall next. 

That about sums up the nonsense and incompetence we have had to put up with over the past eight years, in Obama;s case, or several decades, in Clinton’s case. True, true political class insanity!

That will do it for this month’s political class insanity. But you know that this time next month we will have to start all over again.

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The Obama Era, Part 1 - Memories From The Worst Presidency Ever?

We are coming up on the end of another year so 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.

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.

Thus, given this set up, in no particular order, this is what I will remember about the Obama Presidency:

- I will remember that the major issues facing the country when he was sworn in as President are no better and perhaps have gotten worst seven years later:

• Our public schools still fail to properly education our kids despite the trillions of dollars we have spent on their poor education.
• Our borders still leak.
• Our “war on drugs” is still failing with no alternative proposed or deployed.
• Our nation still lacks a comprehensive energy strategy and plan to deliver clean, inexpensive energy to the American economy.

- I will remember that this administration severely violated the First Amendment rights of millions of Americans by using the IRS to hinder their political organizing and fundraising activities.

- I will remember that this administration severely violated the Fourth Amendment rights of all Americans by collecting just about any form or communications of Americans without warrants or just cause.

- I will remember that this President attended hundreds of fund raising events, setting Presidential records, and played over 250 rounds of golf after promising that he would devote every waking moment of his life, if elected, to serving the people of the country and addressing their needs.

- I will remember that this President had no idea on how to cope with the Gulf oil spill and how he took two vacations, golfed, and attended a number of fund raising events while people in the Gulf coast states were fighting for their lands and livelihoods.

- I will remember that this President refused to attend a memorial service in France for the vicitms of the Charlie Hebdo terrorist assassinations even though every other major world leader attended. Instead, a week later he lamely sent Secretary of State John Kerry to France along with James Taylor to sing a song.

- I will remember how this President told so many lies about Obama Care:

• If you like your current health insurance policy, you can keep it.
• If you like your current doctors and hospitals you can keep them.
• You could save up to $2,500 a year in your family’s health insurance costs.
• Using the Obama Care online website exchanges will be easy and simple.
• Obama Care will not add a single dime to the national debt.
• Over 20 million uninsured Americans will have health insurance by 2016.

- I will remember how this President illegally and unConstitutionally made upwards of twenty changes to the Obama Care legislation without the consent of Congress.

- I will remember how this President lied when he promised to go through the Federal budget “line-by-line” to eliminate wasteful and redundant Federal government spending.

- I will remember how this President lied when he promised to unify the country and heal its racial and political divisions but instead helped widen existing divisions and create new ones.

- I will remember how this President illegally swapped out five high ranking captured terrorists for a sole Army deserter.

- I will remember how this President honored this deserter by inviting his parents to the White House for a meeting and press event but ignored the families of the soldiers who died searching for the the deserter in the wilds of Afghanistan.

- I will remember how this President allowed many high ranking members of his administration to blatantly violate Federal law when they used deceptive, secret, unsecured, likely hacked and criminal private email accounts to conduct government business.

- I will remember how this administration abandoned upwards of two dozen Americans to die in Benghazi by denying them the necessary military help that was ready and willing to go and rescue them.

- I will remember how this administration lied about the root cause of the Benghazi attack in order to preserve their precious political speaking points about curtailing terrorism and how it is not a factor in our lives anymore.

- I will remember how this President failed to live up to the Iraq troop withdrawal timetable that he promised while campaigning.

- I will remember how this President focused on the theory of man made climate change, that may or may not be a reality, vs. focusing on Islamic terrorism that is a real and fatal issue today.

- I will remember how this administration racked up four straight fiscal years of trillion dollar deficits, endangering the future economic health and viability of the country.

- I will remember how this administration violated the law four years in a row by not providing a detailed Federal government budget on time.

- I will remember how this administration has incurred MONTHLY budget deficits that often exceeded the ANNUAL budget deficits of the Bush administration.

- I will remember how this administration will likely incur a national debt level equal to the debt level incurred by all previous Presidential administrations COMBINED.

- I will remember how this President stood by silently, given his tacit approval, when his political allies called Americans a**h***s, Nazis, knuckle dragging Neanderthals, terrorists, racists, whores, sluts, and other vulgar names.

- I will remember how this President failed to come up with any plans to fix Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security, three major government programs that are hurtling towards financial insolvency.

- I will remember how George W.Bush always left for Washington for his Christmas holiday the day after Christmas so that people associated with Presidential travel could spend Christmas with their families while Obama always left for his Christmas vacation, always to Hawaii, prior to Christmas day, denying those people associated with Presidential travel the opportunity to spend Christmas with their families.

- I will remember that despite free lodging, a massive staff, free food, free Presidential perks, free healthcare, and free Secret Service security protection, President Obama griped that his wife, First Lady Michelle Obama, should be treated special and be paid just for being the First Lady even though every preivous First Lady did not get paid.

I will remember a lot about this Presidency, almost all of it very forgettable, regrettable and often disgusting. And unfortunately, I will still have more bad memories to review tomorrow.

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