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Obama’s Good News is Bad News

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img classalignright styleborder 0pt none srchttp2.bp.blogspot.comMpd1ozuoa64TRNti8fMimIAAAAAAAAC3cNPF26bcMlRQs200ObamaGunSalesmanoftheYear.jpg border0 alt width168 height200 Watching President Obama turn his bad news into good news at his press conference and then reading the mainstream media turn facts upside down and inside out was, at best, bizarre.The bad news, of course, is that since 2009 when he took office everything he has done to reverse the unemployment numbers has been a failure. The socalled Stimulus Act was nothing more than a Democrat porkfilled waste that only served to increase our insane national debt.The CashForClunkers program had only shortterm results and removed cars that lowerincome citizens might have been able to purchase aspreviousowned cars from the auto marketplace. The government seizure of General Motors and Chrysler has kept auto union workers on the job with the same contracts that led to the companysinitial failure.Both the Presidents and Congresss approval rating are, respectively, either in decline or setting new low records. In November, the voters took away the Democrats control of the House and narrowed it significantly in the Senate.As Donald Lambro noted in the December 22nd edition of The Washington Times, The dominant liberal media culture has spun the last days of the Democrats lameduck Congress into an unbroken string of legislative victories for President Obama.What victoriesAfter ignoring the extension of President Bushs tax cuts for two years and trying to exclude the wealthy from them while also trying to pass emanotherem 2,000plus page porkulus bill that was withdrawn, the President brayed about bipartisan cooperation that was nothing more than a stinging defeat for his quest to bankrupt the nation still further.President Obama has not shown the slightest indication of partisanship since he took office, replying to any Republican recommendations by saying We won. After a massive march on Washington to protest Obamacare, he staged a lengthy conference with Republicans that put his disdain and contempt for them on full display, including a slapdown of former GOP presidental candidate, John McCain.The passage of Obamacare was a legislative abomination involving bribes and armtwisting that succeeded only because of a Democrat majority in Congress. The immediate administration response to it was to issue waivers to avoid a healthcare insurance catastrophe.The lame duck session was nothing more than a desperate effort to achieve for Democrats what they had either ignored or failed to get during the execrable full session of the 111th Congress.Crowing about the passage of the Start treaty with Russia ignored the fact that both signatories to the treaty can withdraw at any time that circumstances require it. Looks good on paper, but it is essentially meaningless in an era where North Korea has nukes, Pakistan has nukes, and Iran is desperately attempting to make its own nukes. It does little to ward off the potential use of nuclear weapons at some point and limits U.S. defensive measures.strongThe one thing I hope people have seen during this lame duck, said Obama is I am persistent and that, my friends, is the really bad news.strongObama still intends, if possible, to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, nor shows any indication of doing much to protect our wideopen southern border with Mexico. Who gets the blame for that in ObamaSpeak Correctly, Americans who purchase drugs and, incorrectly,the entirely legalsale of guns for selfdefense. Indeed, those sales have soared since hewas electedPresidentdue towellfunded fears that he regards the Constitution as consisting of negative limitations on the government.Coming in 2011 will be an Obama sanctioned effort by the Environmental Protection Agency to do an endrun around the Constitution to impose an utterly false regulation of carbon dioxide emissions in the name of a global warming that has been exposed as a hoax and fraud. It would kill what is left of the economy.Meanwhile, Obama has stopped any exploration or extraction of oil offshore of U.S. coasts and, of course, in the Gulf of Mexico. He has maintained a war on coal mining since day one in office despite the fact that it provides 50 of U.S. electricity needs.So what part of the Presidents season of progress is realMoodys the bond rating service is hinting it may downgrade U.S. securities. The Federal Reserve is printing money with which to buy the debt. The jobless rate continues at the same rate it has been for the past two years. Home foreclosures continue apace. Some twenty U.S. States have filed court cases to stop Obamacare from being enforced.Up is down. Black is white. This is how the bad news of the first half of Obamas first and only term in office is spun by a compliant liberal news media while the majority of Americans have largely rejected the stuttering, hesitant babbling of the worst President in the history of the nation. Alan Caruba, 2010