Barack Obama stood at a podium, doing his best Burgermeister Meisterburger impression and declared that “I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way.” If he really means this, then Obama is going to have turn off the teleprompter, stop pre-empting the prime time lineup, and somehow get out of way himself. While he screams about the deficit that he was left with, he seems to omit the part about how he was an active participant in creating the debt that he inherited from George Bush.
A simple online trip to a site called “Project Vote Smart” will allow anyone to audit Obama’s voting record during his time in the Senate. It is true that he pretty much stopped voting in 2008 (he wouldn’t say “yay” or “nay” to any bill that was more controversial than one suggesting people should be allowed to biologically convert oxygen to carbon dioxide, or something about the prevention of kicking puppies), but he did manage to vote for well over a trillion dollars in spending that helped inflated the debt he seems to resent so much.
In an audit of the major bills he voted on, Barack voted “Yes” to 1.2 Trillion dollars in spending during his fly-by-night senatorial career. That number does not include the 700 billion in TARP funds he agreed to, or the failed legislative fiscal adventure to keep the auto companies out of bankruptcy. As we all know, GM and Chrysler went bankrupt anyway, and nobody really knows how all the TARP money was spent. Treasury Special Inspector General Neil Barofsky testified to the Oversight and Government Reform Committee that “taxpayers are not being told what most of the TARP recipients are doing with their money, have still not been told how much their substantial investments are worth, and will not be told the full details of how their money is being invested.” In fact, Tim Geithner actually rejected recommendations that those accepting TARP money, must disclose how they used the funds. So in truth, Barack probably doesn’t even know where the money went.
Military spending is not included in the audit of his votes. The word “provide” is only used in two contexts in the Constitution. The first is to “Provide for the common defense.” The other is to provide a constitutional successor if, for some reason, the President is not able to perform his duties. So when Obama cuts the F-22 program in favor of handing out grants for battery technology, he is actually acting way outside the constitution. (Anyone who wants to try to the “promote the general welfare” argument should be aware that the founders choose the words deliberately, and a “common defense” is the only thing they need to “provide” to the people.)
Barack screams about the “mess” he was left with, but fails to mention that he remains an unindicted co-conspirator to the freewheeling spending of the Bush era. In short, Obama was driving the getaway car as Bush was raiding the treasury. Even worse, his current fiscal crime spree has him spending more than all Presidents put together, from Washing all the way up to and including “W”. This mess is as much Obama’s as it is Bush’s, he just wants to make it worse without it all somehow being his fault.
A simple online trip to a site called “Project Vote Smart” will allow anyone to audit Obama’s voting record during his time in the Senate. It is true that he pretty much stopped voting in 2008 (he wouldn’t say “yay” or “nay” to any bill that was more controversial than one suggesting people should be allowed to biologically convert oxygen to carbon dioxide, or something about the prevention of kicking puppies), but he did manage to vote for well over a trillion dollars in spending that helped inflated the debt he seems to resent so much.
In an audit of the major bills he voted on, Barack voted “Yes” to 1.2 Trillion dollars in spending during his fly-by-night senatorial career. That number does not include the 700 billion in TARP funds he agreed to, or the failed legislative fiscal adventure to keep the auto companies out of bankruptcy. As we all know, GM and Chrysler went bankrupt anyway, and nobody really knows how all the TARP money was spent. Treasury Special Inspector General Neil Barofsky testified to the Oversight and Government Reform Committee that “taxpayers are not being told what most of the TARP recipients are doing with their money, have still not been told how much their substantial investments are worth, and will not be told the full details of how their money is being invested.” In fact, Tim Geithner actually rejected recommendations that those accepting TARP money, must disclose how they used the funds. So in truth, Barack probably doesn’t even know where the money went.
Military spending is not included in the audit of his votes. The word “provide” is only used in two contexts in the Constitution. The first is to “Provide for the common defense.” The other is to provide a constitutional successor if, for some reason, the President is not able to perform his duties. So when Obama cuts the F-22 program in favor of handing out grants for battery technology, he is actually acting way outside the constitution. (Anyone who wants to try to the “promote the general welfare” argument should be aware that the founders choose the words deliberately, and a “common defense” is the only thing they need to “provide” to the people.)
Barack screams about the “mess” he was left with, but fails to mention that he remains an unindicted co-conspirator to the freewheeling spending of the Bush era. In short, Obama was driving the getaway car as Bush was raiding the treasury. Even worse, his current fiscal crime spree has him spending more than all Presidents put together, from Washing all the way up to and including “W”. This mess is as much Obama’s as it is Bush’s, he just wants to make it worse without it all somehow being his fault.
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