PRESIDENT OBAMA REALLY DID PRETTY GOOD–depending on your worldview.
He actually got Congress to Give Him Things That Undermines Their Own Power.
-- Under the "economic stimulus" he was able to pass a $787 billion gift for his liberal special interest base–doing it so quickly that Congress voted for it before they were able to read it.
–He signed an appropriations bill loaded with 8,000 earmarks after campaigning on a pledge to end earmarks-- paying no political penalty–and not even a whimper from the media.
–He didn’t call it this but he was able to turn the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) into enormous machines for spending the equivalent of the entire federal budget for 2007–doing this without having to disclose where the money went.
COMING IN THE NEXT 100 DAYS?
We have the surprise offering of an out-of-control EPA forcing Congress to pass a $1 trillion to $2 trillion energy tax in the form of cap-and-trade legislation.
“A trillion here--a trillion there, pretty soon we’re talking real money.” Scoop Jackson
“* Just two weeks ago, the President presided over an unprecedented bureaucratic power grab when his Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruled that greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health. This seemingly innocuous decision opens the door to wholesale regulation of American life by government.
* President Obama has kept congressional Democrats marching with him in lockstep. House Democrats tow the party line an amazing 94 percent of the time and Senate Democrats vote Democratic 91 percent of the time.” Newt Gingrich
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