Seems that Senator Harry Reid from South Carolina was right after all when he called NObama a "liar" during an Obama speech on health care a few months ago. NObama himself proved this just last week, in case you missed it.
See, it's like this: during his campaign, Obama declared flat-out that if he were elected President, he absolutely would not sign any legislsation that contained "pork." After eight years of a President who could be considered the King of Pork, this was just what the people wanted to hear. And just last August in a speech given to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Phoenix, Arizona, the President - Obama, not Bush - said, and I quote: "If a project doesn't support our troops, we will not fund it. If a system doesn't perform, we will terminate it. And if Congress sends me a defense bill loaded with that kind of pork, I will veto it. "
Well, last week Congress sent him a defense bill that contained no less than 1,720 pet projects that had been tacked on by Congressmen to either create jobs in their districts and win votes, or to garner their support for the bill and win votes in the process. Some of these "pet projects" include:
$5 million for a visitors center in San Francisco
∙$23 million for indigent health care in Hawaii
∙$18 million for the Edward Kennedy Policy Institute in Massachusetts
∙$1.6 million to computerize hospital records in Oakland
∙$47 million for anti-drug training centers around the country
∙$20 million for the World War II Museum in Louisiana
∙$3.9 million grant to develop an energy-efficient solar film for buildings
∙$800,000 for minority prostate cancer research
∙$3.6 million for marijuana eradication in Kentucky
∙$2.4 million for handicap access and a sprinkler system at a community club in New York
And what did The Great Pretender do? Did he remember his campaign promises of a year ago? Nooooooo, of course not. Did he remember his vow to the VFW of only four months ago? Nooooooooo, of course not. What did he do?
He signed the bill, of course!
Now, would somebody please tell me what a handicap access and a sprinkler system at a community club in New York have to do with maintaining our military and keeping our country safe? Not a damned thing, that's what!
This, ladies and gentlemen, is called PORK, and our President has just crowned himself the King of Pork with a stroke of his pen. He has proven to us all that he is absolutely no different than any other politician who has ever held office, especially the Office of the President of the United States. He lied to us during his campaign, and he lied to us from his position as President. He has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt in any reasonable person's mind that he is nothing more than a typical politician, no different from any other.
Except in one way, of course. He's black.
But then, that's what got him elected in the first place, isn't it?
Seems to me that the only "change" we can "hope" for is the one that's gonna happen on January 20, 2013. But I shudder to think of just how much damage this idiot is gonna do between now and then. The only saving grace is that midway through his term, Congress comes up for re-election and maybe then Pelosi and her band of merry idiots will get shown the door and the Republicans will take over again which, after four years of Demoncratic control and two years of a black Alfred E. Neuman in the White House, won't be such a bad thing after all.
Until then, all we can do is hang on.
And HOPE it doesn't get too much worse.
IHC
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I am more afraid that in the upcoming mid-term elections, the economy will be improving just enough to give the incumbents something to lure the sheeple back into the fold in sufficient numbers to thwart any atempts to send them all home. Voters, I have noticed in my lifetime, have short memories when it comes to voting against the familiar names in office. They'll get bought off just like the Senators who changed their stance at the last minute after being bribed to do so by "the process". If we are unsuccessful in running these cretins out of office this time, we are in some very deep doo-doo in the world financial market, and any money any of us might have managed to stash for a rainy day...well, it's already pouring cats and dogs outside, and the dollar is fixin' to be more worthless than a 1960 peso.
I have a feeling that the Demoncrats have done enough damage - and NObama will do more damage between now and then - that the American public will kick the Demoncrats out of power in the Congress. When Bush was in office, he was screwing up enough where all of the attention is on him, diverting it away from the Demoncrats in Congress...but now that we have a Demoncratic president, when HE fucks up, the attention will not be diverted away but will spread to ALL Demoncrats in office.
One can hope, anyway...damn, there's that word again!
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