The Case for Change in 2012

[Tarheel]

Before you get bogged-down in the side issues, the social issues, the birth certificate, or questions about The Pharaoh Obama's real religion please consider the real reasons why this creature should be defeated in 2012.

Here's a succinct yet probably incomplete list from an article in Townhall.com, all emphasis is my own, and please add your own items......{I did}

The Obama Project: The Case For Change
By Hugh Hewitt
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
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[T]he many reasons why President Obama should be defeated in November 2012.
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1. Obamacare

2. The failed $850 billion stimulus

3. High, persistent unemployment

4. Gas prices

5. The 2012 budget's fecklessness

6. Massive deficits each and every year

7. The seizure of GM and Chrysler, the transfer of bondholder wealth to unions, and the dumping of the GM stock at a loss

8. Dodd-Frank

9. Hostility to Israel, including attack on apartment expansion and icing of Prime Minister Netanyahu in basement of White House

10. Failure to support Iran's Green Revolution

11. Failure to support Syrian revolution

12. The Libyan Fiasco {and supporting any side at all in Libya}

13. The incompetent handling of the Gulf Oil disaster

14. The unnecessary permitorium in the aftermath of the Gulf Oil disaster {while saying "yes, Brazil, we will gladly subsidize YOUR national oil exploration program!}

15. The shutdown of Shell's Arctic oil exploration by EPA

16. The president's push for cap-and-tax in the Congress

17. The president's attempt to unconstitutionally impose cap-and-tax via EPA when the Congress wouldn't pass cap-and-tax

18. The president's push for unconstitutional restrictions on free speech on his political enemies while keeping the unions free to spend money on campaigns via The Disclose Act

19. The president's attempt to unconstitutionally impose The Disclose Act on his political opponents but not unions via Executive Order

20. The president's use of unaccountable "czars"

21. The president's refusal to accept Congressional direction vis-a-vis his "czars" contained in the last 2011 Continuing Resolution

22. The president's verbal assault on {and lies about decisions made by} the Supreme Court while the members of the Court sat before him in the state of the Union

23. The president and Eric Holder's politicization of the Department of Justice, including the black panthers case and the refusal to defend DOMA

24. The president's use of demonizing rhetoric towards his opponents, such as accusing doctors of performing unnecessary surgery for money

25. The president's hyper-partisan approach to governing including "I won, you lost" in 2009 and the assault on Paul Ryan with Paul Ryan as an invited guest in the president's April 2011 "deficit speech."

26. Bowing to the Saudi King and the Japanese emperor {and the Chinese President Hu}

27. Returning the bust of Churchill to Great Britain

28. Removing the missile shield from Poland and the Czech Republic {and not telling them he was going to do it until after he did it}

29. Backing the would-be dictator of Hondorus when that nation's Supreme Court rightfully removed him from office

30. Failure to push for quick ratification of free trade agreements with Columbia, Panama and South Korea

31. Indecision on Afghanistan surge coupled with announcement of eventual withdrawal.

32. Incoherence on Egypt, most obviously with the dispatch of Frank Wizner and then rejection of Wizner's advice vis-a-vis Mubarak {being FOR Mubarak before he was against him}

33. Appointment Craig Becker to NLRB via recess appointment {Congress repeated voted against Craig Beck a well-known SEIU, ACORN, and Union thug}

34. Appointment of FCC commissioners who are pursuing "net neutrality" without Congressional authorization

35. Failure to resume full water deliveries to California's Central Valley because of the Delta Smelt

36. Attempt to close Guantanamo Bay

37. Attempt to try terrorists in New York City {attempt to try terrorists at all in a civilian court as you would an American citizen!}

38. Janet "The System Worked" Napolitano {Big Sister...just think of that crying little girl getting shaken down with an enhanced pat-down by a TSA agent...this is real security...makes me feel a lot safer}

39. Government takeover of the student loan program

40. Cancellation of "virtual border fence" project with no replacement or indeed concern for border security

41. The "Beer Summit" and the attack on the Cambridge Police Department

42. The Department of Justice's attack on Arizona for that state's exercise of its sovereign legislative authority on the issue of citizen identification rules

43. The attack on Scott Walker and Wisconsin for the governor's and the state legislature's exercise of their sovereign legislative authority on public employment issues

44. Dabbling in basketball brackets while the Middle East fell into chaos and the gas prices skyrocketed

45. Arguing that American exceptionalism was the same as any nation's sense of exceptionalism

46. Implying that Minnesota bridge collapse was the result of lack of infrastructure funding

47. Inserting himself into campaign for the Olympics

48. Attack on D.C. voucher program

49. Van Jones and a long list of other appointees

50. Teleprompter dependency and the worst run of presidential rhetoric since Millard Fillmore...combined with testiness in the few interviews he grants.
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Full article:
http://www.talk920.com/column.aspx?id=66c1aa4d-c327-4e54-9950-c45fdde80d83

[Townhallsavoy]

SHOULD BE and WILL BE. 

Very different.

It's sort of like comparing EDUCATED and UNEDUCATED.

[Tarheel]

SHOULD BE and WILL BE. 

Very different.

It's sort of like comparing EDUCATED and UNEDUCATED.

Of course, I use "should be" because the American voting public are collective idiots for even electing this guy in the first place.

Getting rid of him WILL BE an exercise in collective reasoning...if we don't get entranced by The Pharaoh's vacuous rhetoric again.

[GH2001]

Nice list Tarheel.

[Kaos]

Haha!  Fuck your list.  I killed Osama bin Laden.  I did it with my own gun. 

[wreckingball]

Haha!  Fuck your list.  I killed Osama bin Laden.  I did it with my own gun. 

^^This guy gets it.^^

[Tiger Wench]

Instructing the EPA to let some tiny fucking lizard be an excuse to shut down drilling for oil in West TX and New Mexico.

A three-inch lizard that thrives in desert conditions could shut down oil and gas operations in portions of Southeast New Mexico and in West Texas, including the state’s top two oil producing counties.

Called the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard, it is being considered for inclusion on the federal Endangered Species listing by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. A public rally to oppose this move is being sponsored by the Permian Basin Petroleum Association on Tuesday, April 26 at Midland Center beginning at 5 p.m. Congressman Mike Conaway will speak, as will Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson; other public officials have been invited.

“We are very concerned about the Fish and Wildlife Service listing,” said Ben Shepperd, president of the PBPA, noting the service also has proposed listing the Lesser Prairie Chicken next year. “The wolf at the door is the lizard; we’re concerned listing it would shut down drilling activity for a minimum of two years and as many as five years while the service determines what habitat is needed for the lizard. That means no drilling, no seismic surveys, no roads built, no electric lines.”

The move would impact activity in Andrews, Crane, Gaines, Ward and Winkler counties in Texas and Chaves, Eddy, Lea and Roosevelt counties in New Mexico.

Not only would the move impact oil and gas operations but agriculture, Shepperd noted, shutting down agricultural activities like grazing and farming — “anything that disturbs the habitat.” While the industry is perfectly willing to undertake conservation measures to protect the lizard’s habitat, he said, naming it an endangered species “would shut down activity and be devastating not only to Permian Basin economies but to the national economy. We are the one bright spot month after month; in our economic turnaround, the main driver is the oil and gas industry.”

The concern is, he said, that the Fish and Wildlife Service lacks enough data to conclude that the tiny lizard is endangered and is basing its action on flawed methodology. “They didn’t spend enough time looking for them or the right technique to find them,” he said.

In New Mexico, where the lizard can be found on both private and public lands, Shepperd said a number of companies have entered into voluntary agreements to help conserve the lizard’s habitat, mitigate threats to the lizard and remediate any damage while continuing to operate. He said he wants the same to happen in Texas. The association favors such joint agreements between the federal government and landowners to protect the lizard’s habitat while allowing drilling operations to continue responsibly.

“The point is, we think the best way is for land owners and industry actually on the ground where the lizards are, who know how to protect the lizard, to be in charge instead of the feds putting up ‘Do Not Enter’ signs on every gatepost,” Shepperd said.

A sign of hope is that four counties — Lea, Andrews, Ward and Winkler, and the town of Monahans, have passed resolutions demanding to have standing during the comment phase, which ends May 16. Under the National Environmental Protection Act, or NEPA, Shepperd said, the federal government is required to work with local governmental entities when they make such a request.

“This will enable them to bring in the economic impact,” he said. “We feel like the counties demanding to be part of the process should require the Fish and Wildlife Service to work with them to develop a reasonable conservation process that we all can live with.”

[Tarheel]

Haha!  eff your list.  I killed Osama bin Laden.  I did it with my own gun. 
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I would have thought that the Pharaoh Obama would have played this political hole card closer to election day.  As it is he's already loosing traction and there's still 19 months to go before the presidential election.