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By on 4.27.12 @ 6:08AM

Fifty ways the Obama Administration has hurt the economy and job creation.

President Obama has been the worst president for business in my lifetime. The result: a stagnant economy where some half of American adults do not pay federal income taxes and almost half live in a household that received benefits from the U.S. government.

The President’s rhetoric demonizing business and dividing the country, and the Administration’s actions hurting the business environment or specific industries have dampened business hiring.

To be fair, President Obama has taken some actions that have been helpful: Pushing through the Bush trade deals, opposing Internet restrictions, shepherding the recent JOBS Act that removed government barriers to capital formation and obtaining additional spectrum for broadband. These have been positive, pro-innovation and pro-business measures — but they have not been enough.

Since President Obama has taken office we have at least two million more employable Americans, yet after trillions of dollars of stimulus and deficit spending, we actually have fewer non-government jobs than we did the day he took the oath of office. The totality of the actions below has cast such a pall over our economy that we will be stuck in a jobless recovery for the foreseeable future. President Obama and his Administration have…

  1. Increased the deficit more than $4 trillion, causing the first-ever downgrade in the U.S. credit rating and for the first time raising serious questions about U.S. financial stability.
  2. Issued 106 new major rules that cost U.S. businesses $11 billion in implementation and more than $46 billion each year.
  3. Blocked Boeing’s new South Carolina factory from opening to assuage his union supporters.
  4. Raided a Gibson Guitar factory for violating an arcane India law even though India does not believe the law has been broken.
  5. Issued an “ambush” election rule allowing quick unionization and limiting an employer’s ability to present reasons for non-unionization.
  6. Restricted how companies hire unpaid interns, cutting the link between students and employers.
  7. Blocked the construction of the Keystone Pipeline that would have given jobs to thousands of American workers, further reducing the domestic oil supply and forcing our ally Canada to turn to China as a more willing partner.
  8. Cut authorization of permits restricting drilling in Gulf and slowed permitting of new oil drilling so our future oil supply will be restricted and gas prices will be higher.
  9. Mandated third party certification for all manufacturers participating in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star program, which has raised costs for manufacturers and created a disincentive for participation in the program.
  10. Funded Solyndra and other unworthy companies, wasting taxpayer money but also discouraging other privately funded companies from entering the market.
  11. Only moved on Bush free trade agreements and failed to enter one new free trade agreement, even while our competitors have entered many, making U.S. goods more expensive to export.
  12. Pushed for passage of card check legislation that would infringe upon the rights of workers and make the United States a less desirable place to open a business.
  13. Created a new rule requiring every employer to post notices on union “rights,” (found illegal by a federal court in April).
  14. Changed rules on unionization votes so the majority of employees no longer need to vote to unionize, allowing easier unionization.
  15. Disparaged the city of Las Vegas twice, which led to an immediate and dramatic fall-off in hotel room bookings and hospitality jobs.
  16. Proposed onerous restrictions on government officials attending trade shows, threatening vital cooperation between business and government to create jobs.
  17. Mandated that every hotel swimming pool have special access for the disabled, causing pools to close or hotels to add expensive add-ons, hurting the hotel industry and employment.
  18. Imposed a requirement that every employer with more than 49 employees provide health care insurance or pay a fine.
  19. Allowed the United States to become the highest corporate tax nation in the developed world.
  20. Required every children’s product to undergo expensive testing, threatening thousands of small businesses that make children’s products.
  21. Demonized businesses and one-percent income earners consistently as greedy.
  22. Increased the number of IRS audits of successful job creators while dramatically cutting audits of those reporting no income.
  23. Proposed regulating gas fireplaces in homes, threatening a large segment of the market despite no energy rationale.
  24. Failed to approve one new nuclear plant, increasing our energy dependence.
  25. Defended EPA “strong-arming” of property owners by threatening fines — March 2012 Supreme Court’s unanimously rejected EPA position.
  26. Ignored proposals of his own Bipartisan Deficit Commission and thus guaranteed further choking deficits and financial uncertainty.
  27. Imposed a 2.3 percent new excise tax on innovative medical devices.
  28. Imposed a new investment income “surtax” of 3.8 percent.
  29. Raised the Medicare Payroll tax from 2.9 percent to 3.8 percent.
  30. Required every individual to buy health insurance as part of his healthcare reform, which the Congressional Budget Office says will cost twice as much as the White House originally advertised.
  31. Proposed a seven percent hiring quota for “disabled” workers in every job category for government contractors, creating a new expensive burden to doing business with government.
  32. Expanded the definition of “disabled” to include people with diabetes and heart disease, among others, and specified new quotas for hiring under this definition.
  33. Opposed “repatriation” of U.S. corporate profits made overseas (and already taxed), thus encouraging U.S. companies to invest those profits in foreign enterprises.
  34. Proposed higher taxes for business-use airplanes, raising the cost of many U.S. operations.
  35. Sought to give the IRS the power to license all tax preparers, discouraging entrepreneurs by raising the cost to enter the market.
  36. Attacked the Supreme Court twice directly, undercutting confidence in the separation of powers.
  37. Raided California medical marijuana facilities, harming entrepreneurs and threatening medical treatments.
  38. Sought and signed the Dodd-Frank financial reform law with its hundreds of new rules and restrictions that impose billions in new costs on financial companies.
  39. Advocated for the “Buffett Rule,” which would discourage U.S. investment and barely dent the deficit.
  40. Expressed plans to raise the capital gains tax, which would discourage U.S. capital formation and drive investment overseas.
  41. Created new emissions standards for industrial boilers that may cost hundreds of thousands of U.S. businesses a total of $14.5 billion.
  42. Pursued his campaign pledge to adopt electronic medical records, at an estimated cost of as much as $100 billion. The plan is already costing jobs.
  43. Set new energy-use mandates for many products, discouraging innovation and consumer choice and raising product costs.
  44. Imposed new restrictions on the number of hours driven by truck drivers, costing more than $400 million with no proven additional safety benefit and raising the cost of goods shipped in the United States.
  45. Failed to confront drug company payoffs/rebates to doctors, thus raising the cost of health care.
  46. Negotiated secret trademark treaties that are so secret their effects are unknown.
  47. Failed to make government more transparent by restricting FOIA requests, according to the Washington Post, making review of government actions difficult.
  48. Neglected to do anything about providing guns to Mexico drug cartels, which resulted in the death of U.S. Border Patrol agents, causing worldwide doubt as to U.S. rule of law.
  49. Perpetuated the fraud of “green jobs” to sell and justify stimulus funds with little evidence to support the market for these jobs.
  50. Investigated leading U.S. companies, such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Intel and Qualcomm, which encouraged other countries to do the same.

No doubt some might quibble with some items on this list; others could probably take it up to 100. The point is that the Obama Administration has hurt business interests and job creation. While President Obama and his administration aren’t solely responsible for America’s economic turmoil, they have definitely hurt much more than they helped. 

About the Author

Gary Shapiro is president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the U.S. trade association representing more than 2,000 consumer electronics companies, and author of the New York Times best-selling books, Ninja Innovation: The Ten Killer Strategies of the World’s Most Successful Businesses and The Comeback: How Innovation Will Restore the American Dream. His views are his own. Connect with him on Twitter: @GaryShapiro. 

Letter to the Editor View all comments (149) |

spike59| 4.27.12 @ 6:14AM

the question is (for all the tinfoil hat wearers out there) how much of this 'performance' can be blamed on incompetence, and how much can be blamed on a desire to create crises that the Central Planners would hate to 'waste?'

Jack in Wi.| 4.27.12 @ 6:28AM

I can't disagree with any of the 50 points made, except attacking the Surpreme Court. That is everyones perogative. The Court has been wiping it's hinney with the Constitution for many decades. Let the court get as much criticism as possible. Obama may be wrong in his attacks but he has every right to do it. It should have been done more by conservatives. I don't like any part of the Federal government. They are all out of control.

Mike Hawk| 4.27.12 @ 7:04AM

You have made some stupid comments, but this is right up there with the dumbest and most assinine. You truly are the South end of a Northbound horse. Obozo's attacks on the Court are unethical and unprecedented. But you would not comprehend that.

Jack in Wi.| 4.27.12 @ 7:42AM

Jackson, Jefferson, FDR, Lincoln and others have attacked the Court. Lincoln wanted to arrest the Chief Justice. You sir are a complete moron.

Mr Kimber| 4.27.12 @ 11:03AM

You miss the point Jack. Obama is the Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln and FDR of our time. If you add all that Obama has done in 4 yrs. he is worse then all 4 put together. He hasn't had his "trail of tears" and he hasn't jailed a Supreme, yet but thats because he gasn't gotten rid of the 2nd Ammendewnt, yet.

Jack in Wi.| 4.27.12 @ 11:29AM

Lincoln and Jackson were plenty bad. Jackson defied an order of the court about the expulsion of the Indians east of the Mississipi and the wrongful seizure of their land. He said. "They made their decission. Now they can inforce it. " He then expelled the Indians in which many thousands died. Lincoln defied the court on the issue of Habeous Corpus and kept thousands in prison for political reasons. He wanted to arrest the Chief Justice.

ENOUGH ROPE| 4.30.12 @ 4:19PM

Obama is a racist who wants to punish America for being racist. I hope SCOTUS declares him NOT a natural born citizen and expel him from office.

Purp| 4.27.12 @ 8:37AM

Wrong on both accounts - go learn something about Andrew Jackson and FDR to name only 2 Presidents that took on the Supreme Court - and won.

Von Mises Jr| 4.27.12 @ 9:59AM

Hey Perp, you never answered my riddle about Keynesian Economics.
If demand-side theorizes that too much demand causes inflation, and too little demand causes unemployment; how did your boy Jimma get a Misery Index of 22???
Today real U3 is 10.9% per Jimmy P at Reuters and real inflation (not Core) is about 8%. That gives Obuma a Misery Index of 19. How did your messiah pull that off???
Keynes said it could not happen! Is there too much demand or too little demand?
Or are you back to Marx's "proletariat" economics and we "bourgeoisie" can't comprehend its brilliance?
Perp, if you can't or won't ANSWER my questions, just go talk to MoveOn morons.

Purp| 4.27.12 @ 11:59AM

And yet, he is still has higher approval rating and less disapproval rating than Richie Romney.... oh well. Guess they aren't blaming Obama, like you are, huh?

Ground Control| 4.27.12 @ 1:41PM

wow. approval rating. what an argument. what logic. totally underwhelming.

Purp| 4.27.12 @ 8:02PM

And, yet, that's what wins elections ... go study up and then come back.

Von Mises Jr| 4.27.12 @ 5:00PM

ANSWER either of the riddles, troll.
Liberals change the subject when they can't answer. So ANSWER the questions or admit you are ignorant of what you speak.

Purp| 4.27.12 @ 8:02PM

How many times do I have to say no? What part of no don't you get? Are you seriously that dense?
There are many reasons people don't answer you - I could be ignorant, but since I am not, you'll have to pick another reason, if you can't accept "No". But that's your problem, not mine.
Have a nice day, Sunshine...

Von Mises Jr| 4.28.12 @ 6:47AM

You can't. Your ideology is flawed and you can't ANSWER. Admit it troll, there is no ANSWER.

I don't have a problem, I CAN answer any question you ever had, But you are too ignorant to ANSWER any of mine.

Purp| 4.28.12 @ 3:52PM

I don't have an ideology - and that's where you lose. You are so wrapped in yours, you can't see straight. And, THAT is your problem. I can vote for Ronald Reagan AND Barack Obama - can you?

Von Mises Jr| 4.28.12 @ 5:28PM

But can you ANSWER my question TROLL? Perhaps you could vote for a ham sandwich when you are not smart enough to ANSWER any questions.

Occam's Tool| 4.29.12 @ 11:23PM

Purp---that just demonstrates intellectual inconsistency to an awesome degree.

But getting into an argument with Jack deeper than calling him "an asshole" is really a waste. The man is a complete waste of CHON.

Oldefarte| 4.29.12 @ 1:40PM

Wait until 11/7/12 and seen who has the higher voter apporval ratings!!!!!!!

jan| 4.30.12 @ 4:37PM

You must be talking about the " DOPES FOR CHANGE" idiot morons

Bren| 5.8.12 @ 12:36PM

Yeah that trickle-down economics has enriched America in SO Many ways.When will IDIOTS like many of these posters and the author GET that the PROBLEM is not the President? Income inequality is the issue, this is from a person that worked for her part of the American Dream, lost it and regained it.

W| 4.27.12 @ 10:20AM

Purp
You are the moron. A president and congress can disagree with the Court, but you do not "take on" the Court. That is the language of totalitarians like Obama and his sheep like you that have no respect for the independence of the three branches of government.
FDR proposed appointing a justice for every justice over the age of 70 because the older ones disagreed with him. He wanted to neutralize the votes of the older justices who ruled against his New Deal legislation.

This proposal was criticized by everyone who understands, unlike you, constitutional law and our form of three branches of government. Today that would also be age discrimination. FDR did not "win:" because his proposal was so absurd it was never taken seriously.

FDR did it to intimidate the Court, much like your hero Obama is attempting, because he cannot win on the merits of the cases, so he has to use the left's intimidation tactics.

Purp| 4.27.12 @ 12:02PM

Takes one to know one, huh? You didn't address Andrew Jackson and his confrontation with the Court, now did you? Would you consider him "the Left"?
And, it is anyone's right to question our officials - or did you miss that part of Liberty and Freedom.

W| 4.27.12 @ 1:35PM

Jackson was a populist Democrat. Of course as a Dem he was on the left. Did you know he was a Dem?
He disagreed with establishing the national bank. He did not threaten to replace the justices like FDR did, nor did he make a stupid comment like Obama that the Court should not overturn a law passed by a democratically elected congress. Every law that the Court overturns is passed by a democratically elected congress, did you know that?
You can question all you want, but that is different that threatening to replace the justices or "taking them on" as you say.
Is that clear enough for you?

Purp| 4.27.12 @ 8:06PM

You really don't know what Jackson did vis a vis the Supreme Court? Really?
There is nothing sacrosanct about the Supreme Court, and if elected officials take issue with their decisions or actions, so what? It's tough if you don't like it. Wasn't that long ago you were screaming about judicial activism - doesn't bother you so much when you think they are doing what YOU want, huh? Wait until the pendulum swings again - and I will be here to remind you of your hypocrisy.

W| 4.28.12 @ 12:08AM

I explained it to you, Purp, but you are too stupid to understand.

Purp| 4.28.12 @ 1:06AM

Wow - you really don't know... hmmmm

W| 4.28.12 @ 9:39AM

"hmmmmm" That is the most intelligent comment you made.
Why don't you tell us what you think Jackson did?
Are you afraid because it will be wrong as usual?

Von Mises Jr| 4.28.12 @ 6:51AM

Takes one to know one. Are you smarter than a Fifth Grader?
Teacher: "Come in from the schoolyard now, little Perpy. It's time for propositional logic class."
Perpy: "I don't wike pwopozitionel Wogic, Ms. Rachet."

O.F. A.N. A.S.S.| 4.27.12 @ 1:47PM

Baa!

We sheep are sick and tired of this line of reasoning.

We sheep are going to have to reconsider how stupid we think hate laws in general and hate speech laws in particular are, if this keeps up.

We sheep just want to somehow exist without being sodomized by feces exactly like this liberal depravity and cannot believe are once again being lumped with him - by one of our very own flock - so to speak.

Even we sheep know it doesn't always take one to know one, sometimes the reality one is being sodomized by a sodomizer is all is takes to realize the liberal depravity sodomizing you is a sodomizer.

Ovines For
A Nation
Absent Species Sodomization

Buck Ofama| 4.28.12 @ 11:31AM

Purp, go back to jacking off to a picture of your silly messiah, Ovomit.

Purp| 4.28.12 @ 3:53PM

Go stick your head up your God, Rush Loudmouth's a** where it belongs. Enjoy the smell and taste. He's so tasty isn't he?

Von Mises Jr| 4.28.12 @ 8:17PM

Is that your economic treatise, troll. Still haven't ANSWERED my riddles?

W| 4.27.12 @ 10:10AM

Mike
Last night on the "Toward a Reaginite..." column, Jack said the Palestinians are in concentration camps in Gaza and the West Bank. And he had some kind words for Adolph Hitler. I vote for that as the dumbest comment ever made here by Jack.

Drunken Sailor| 4.27.12 @ 10:15AM

My vote goes for "I love and respect everyone".

Jack in Wi.| 4.27.12 @ 6:31PM

Of course thee Palistinians are in walled concentration camps in Gaza and the West Bank and the whole world knows it. I never said a nice word about Hitler on this site or ever. I just think that he was a nicer person then the Israeli government. After all he didn't have 500 atomic weapons and a plan to wipe out all the Middle East and most of Europe. [ The Samson Option ] The Israeli, lunatic government is trying to drag us into WW3, which would end up far worse then anything Hitler ever did.

He also did his own fighting. He didn't ask someone else to do it for him. Hitler was an awful criminal. The Israeli government is potentially far worse. The end of the world could happen because of Israel. In fact the looney Christian Zionists want it too happen. That will leave you Jews who don't convert to their dizzy theology in one HELL of a fix. Shalom for the weekend. Have a good sabbath. I am going to have one great weekend.

Occam's Tool| 4.29.12 @ 11:26PM

Yes. You think Hitler is nicer than the Israelis, and that the Jews killed in WWII were killed "in the fog of war."

You are a maggot who can't even spell "Palestinian" correctly. The Israelis pump millions of dollars into the Palestinian economy yearly, to get in return their infants beheaded. They provide medical care and get their MDs and nurses murdered. STFU, Jack.

PolishKnight| 4.27.12 @ 9:37AM

I disagree that "fast and furious" is something that hurt job creation. One could argue then that every bad thing Obama did hurt job creation.

Speaking of Mexico...., one glaring omission from the author's list is Obama's immigration policy (both legal and illegal). Importing hundreds of thousands of lower paid H1B tech workers has hurt American workers along with the industry overall (look at the miserable state many IT companies and divisions are in after the H1B floodgate opened!) and cheap illegal labor has destroyed working class labor in the country while increasing the burden of the welfare state.

But then again, many "establishment" Republicans love cheap illegal and legal immigrant labor because it provides their particular constituencies with fast profits at the expense not only of the American worker and nation, but also the party itself since nearly all the (almost entirely) non-white immigrants are going to be loyal race-politics Democrat supporters.

Ryan| 4.27.12 @ 9:50AM

I would say that his outright refusal to do a step-by-step process in immigration reform (rather than comprehensive) has hurt American businesses.

PolishKnight| 4.27.12 @ 10:06AM

Ryan, what Obama (and GWB) meant by "comprehensive" reform was basically to promise cracking down upon illegals in the future while granting amnesty to existing illegals and opening the floodgates to H1B's to lower tech wages down to that of landscapers and construction workers (and with the same quality. Don't you just love Chinese drywall in those paper thin housing boom homes? I'm not buying a home made after 1981!!!) I'm reminded of the line: "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today!" Tuesday, of course, will never come!

The problem with the step-by-step "reform" would be to reveal that they have no intention of making the 'first' steps (building a fence and enforcing immigration laws.)

The way that the Republican and business elite have sold out American labor and even the nation itself makes me rethink why we should are about so-called "free market" capitalism when such capitalists will happily trash a nation to make a short term profit. Let the third worlders go marxist, take away their wealth, and then kidnap their children and sell them for ransom for whatever ill gotten gains they have left.

BackToBasics| 4.27.12 @ 12:05PM

PK, yes, it's an aside, but I remember seeing homes constructed in the 1980's that had the flimsiest construction. I doubt that all states would allow this, but in Virginia I saw some new houses being constructed that except for the corners which had 4x8 chipboard, the walls were layered as such from the inside out:

drywall
plastic vapor barrier
insulation
1/2 inch foam insulation
vinyl siding

If you don't happen to hit a stud, you can actually put your foot through the walls. Prior to seeing that I would not have believed such a construction practice would be allowed. I wonder how much of this flimsy housing is in place around the Washington, DC suburbs in Virginia?

Dixie Pixie| 4.27.12 @ 4:41PM

And you wonder why these homes are blown into kindling in the first F2 tornado that hits them.
This is the downside of the “buy low – sell high – reap big profits” philosophy.

If you are going to live in a house for the rest of your life it pays off in the long run to accept a smaller but higher quality house.

It was the “House Flippers” that demanded cheap Mac-Mansions that could be resold in a year or two for big profits.
Of course, if any major problems like cheap Chinese drywall showed up in 5 to 10 years it would be a problem for the several owners later to solve not the original builder.

Say “Thank You Barney Frank”.

BackToBasics| 4.27.12 @ 8:52PM

A man from Germany told me that in Germany and in Europe that they build homes to last using brick and mortar and thicker wood.

Maybe the newer housing architecture reflects our society, somewhat okay on the outside but would blow away in rather light storms.

Minuteman78| 4.28.12 @ 7:50AM

There's thousands of them in Florida. My folks who still live there say they are called "Cooler" homes because they are made largely of styrofoam.

BackToBasics| 4.28.12 @ 11:56AM

M78, good description. Hardly the type of home for security! I know this is not allowed in every state. Many people may be aware of this type of construction but I wasn't until the mid 80's. I have always made sure that the homes I have bought since then were also older construction.

It's an aside but I was surprised by PK's mention of it and since I NEVER once have seen articles written about it, although I don't do searches on it, I though it worth mentioning even as an aside.

chuck| 4.28.12 @ 9:10PM

I've been in the housing business for 30 years, and would never build or live in a house with vinyl siding. You can literally cut your way into someones house with an utility knife. Plus the crap is highly flammable. There have been incidents here in GA where one house with vinyl siding caught fire, and the next 4 or 5 all went up.

There is nothing wrong with houses built after 1980. Actually the building codes are tougher now than ever, but be sure to have a home inspection done, and never use vinyl siding. Go with brick or cement-fiber siding.

BlitheBunny| 4.27.12 @ 11:37AM

He's attacking the Supreme Court because he knows they will get rid of the legislation his campaign for re-election is riding on. He's not doing it to give the Court an overhaul, he's doing it because he's losing and he knows it.

Von Mises Jr| 4.27.12 @ 8:10AM

Spike, you hit the nail on the head. Most focus on all the cloward and piven spending that destroys our financial and monetary systems.
But equally, if not more so, the problem is the Central Planners strangling liberty, free markets and growth.
- Green Energy schemes funnel billions to cronies undermining free market capitalism
- 800 years of energy is kept off limits whenever possible
- Fannie, Freddie, EPA and Agenda21 destroy property rights
- Health care and health insurance are frozen and will not be brought back to life if PPACA stands
- Dodd Frank has turned the Fed into a money machine for the Treasury monetizing debt (five major banks borrow at .25 and buy T-Bills at 2-3% coupon)
- Regulation and lack of capital stifles SMB
- The coming tax tsunami of 2013 will crush profits and investment

While we need to cut spending dramatically, if we were growing at 5-7% as we did during Reagan, there would be millions more jobs, more tax revenue and fewer people in need of government handouts. But that is not the plan.

W| 4.27.12 @ 8:23AM

spike
Most are planned and not incompentence. This is another way of saying there are at least fifty reasons to vote for Romney and defeat Obama.

Al Adab| 4.27.12 @ 1:18PM

Jr, W:
I have never been a proponant of criminal prosecution of officeholders, even Rostenkowski, Edwards and their ilk. Nonetheless, it is within the realm of possibility that this administration, Holder for example, have by purpuseful, knowing, willful actions intentionally done harm to the national security and the national economy in order to attempt to decline the influence of the nation in the world. It is the willful damage to national security which rises to the "aid and confort" level of action. The apology tour and so on can simply be put down to agenda, but purposefully harming the ability of the nation to defend itself creates a serious question.

W| 4.27.12 @ 1:42PM

Al Adab
Good to see you commenting again.

The apology tour is consistent with damaging our national security. Obama was in Wright's church for 20 years listening to the hatred against the USA, and was friends with Ayers, a terrorrist.

He is further weakening our country with the massive deficit and restricting drilling for oil and gas. It is all part of his dislike of the USA. He campaigned that he wanted to fundamentally transform the country. That means he did not like the USA as it existed.

Al Adab| 4.27.12 @ 2:44PM

and we now know what Fundamentally transfor America looks like. I wonder if the true believers even like it although I'm at a loss to understand his 40% approval rating.

Von Mises Jr| 4.28.12 @ 5:31PM

Al, it is easy to get a 40% approval rating in a poll when 60% of the sample are liberals, 30% moderate and 10% RINO Republicans. No pollster ever calls my house. Even the GOP stopped calling me.

k. bourg| 4.27.12 @ 7:35AM

51. Failed to implement tort reform which would dramatically reduce the cost of health care.
52. Acted like a jackass from day one lowering our status in the world.
53. Has huge unwieldy ears.
54. Walks up to the presidential podium like J.J. Walker.
55. Goes on vacation more often than your average travel expert.
56.Hires known communists to high ranking government positions.
57. Goes on low rated late night tv shows and covorts with other imbeciles.
58. Smokes ciggarettes like the bad guy from The X-files.
59. Makes Jimmy Carter look good.(as far as possible)
60. And many more.

tootsie| 4.27.12 @ 8:41AM

61. Deplanes Air Force 1 like a bunny.

Clint| 4.27.12 @ 7:39AM

Aaaaaand,

He Ate Mittens' Dog.

W| 4.27.12 @ 8:26AM

Clint
Congratulations. Now that's funny. Stick to humor.

Occam's Tool| 4.29.12 @ 11:28PM

Mittens, in 2003, when Governor of Massachusetts, rescued a family and their dog in danger of drowning.

Hell of a lot more impressive than Clint.

Indy| 4.27.12 @ 8:16AM

Regulations on the fishing industry

Proposed regulations on small farms, just withdrawn but wait until after the elections when he has "more flexibility"
http://hotair.com/archives/201.....n-parents/

Backs OWS - we will see how May 1st plays out, I'm sure small businesses will be hurt as they were with earlier protests and this is the opening for the summer plans the group has, Chicago is already planning to vacate during the upcoming NATO Summit "The Milwaukee Red Cross was told to prepare for a possible evacuation during this summit."

http://www.thegatewaypundit.co.....nce-video/

TLP| 4.27.12 @ 8:16AM

Can we talk?

Can you tell me why people on OUR SIDE, are so afraid to tell the Truth?

Regarding #48.

He did not "Neglect to do anything about providing Guns to Mexican Drug Dealers", you Stupid B*stard. HE is the one who RAN THE GUNS TO MEXICO.

HE bought them in Gun Stores. HE had them Walked across the Border. HE gave them to the Mexican Drug Cartels so that they would Kill as many Innocent Mexican Men, Women, and CHILDREN, as Humanly possible, so that HE could use their their Slaughter, for HIS PURPOSES of more Gun Control Laws in the U.S.

At a Press Conference with The Mexican President at his side, this MONSTER did just that.

He answered a Reporter's question about all of the violence in Mexico by stating: "A lot of the Guns that are being used in these killings, are guns that were bought in America, and then carried down here, to Mexico, where they could be used in all of these killings, just proving that we need to take more action, toward Guns." (I'm paraphrasing)

You don't believe me?

Go find the ONE Story that CBS had the balls to write, on this, before Pressure was brought to bear, and the Story quickly faded in to Oblivion.

They reported that they had SEEN THE EMAILS on this Operation, and that the people in the Administration were only too happy, at the prospect of using all these DEAD MEXICANS as Props, in their latest effort to DISARM the American People.

After a brief glimpse of the TRUTH, Eric Holder still refuses to release 800 Subpoenaed Internal Documents, personel at Justice were "Re-assigned" or moved Overseas, while others Resigned, and OBAMA'S U.S. Attorney, in Arizona, took the 5th Amendment?

So, please, like my Grandmother used to say: "Sh*t or get off the pot."

Tell the American People THE TRUTH!

Or, just STFU.

This is why we lose elections.

Purp| 4.27.12 @ 10:02AM

You are right, of course - everyone one of your so-called "50" can be debunked - but there is no point in trying. No one on this site would believe it. Just as the recent reports have confirmed - from day 1 in office, this President has been opposed by the Republicant party purposely, with malice of forethought and viciously, at the expense of our economy, our financial standing and our people - just so they can have a chance at beating him in the next election this year. Republicants are an organized Mafia like organization seeking only power, not freedom, but disguised by the search for "freedom and prosperity - it's all bunk and hypocritical.
I'll note just one item - the downgrade of U.S. Creditworthiness by S&P came as a direct result of the obstructionist policies emanating from the Republicant House of Representatives over the debt ceiling increase - and S&P said so themselves. So in the words of the Cain Train - "Blame Yo'self" for electing such idiots in the House unconcerned for America, only their own power and prestige.
What is strange to me is that you all keep believing their tripe and voting for them. Why? The Republicant party has wrapped more debt around your necks than anyone else - yet you still don't get it. Why?

Drunken Sailor| 4.27.12 @ 10:19AM

Talk about "Projection"

Purp| 4.27.12 @ 12:06PM

No rebuttal... typical

Drunken Sailor| 4.27.12 @ 12:37PM

Condescending..... typical

Purp| 4.27.12 @ 8:07PM

You don't know condescending when you see it, do you ?
Now that IS condescending. Learn something.

From the Desk of Media Matters| 4.27.12 @ 9:45PM

Jacquelina Moscow Pansy Pink Putz Pantywaste Pelosi Barney Frank's Dental and Suppository Installer / Remover,

MM staff is having a banner day.

MM staff would have responded sooner but for two reasons.

- first, uncontrollable laughter, the type with uncontrollable tears streaming, that results in the uncontrollable inability to stop, that included the entire building - MM staff, bottom rung MM mindless retarded parrots, even the big guy Herr S himself - where any semblance of order was not restored for an uncontrollable amount of time, all from reading your 10:02am post;

- and second, MM staff taking time to run a personal errand of vital importance, involving a sporting goods store, a big dog, the latest in muslim scientific contributions, all followed up with several buckets of small white dimpled spheroids.

Even our other bottom rung MM mindless retarded parrots know a 'rebuttal' is the offer of proof through evidence or argument.

Even our other bottom rung MM mindless retarded parrots know 'evidence' is information that clearly demonstrates truth.

Even our other bottom rung MM mindless retarded parrots know 'argument' is reasoning that clearly demonstrates truth.

The reason for the banner day being had by MM staff began on 4/21 at 2:32am when you the stupid lying idiot posted:

"do you really think you are funny? - i don't even bother reading it, just shake my head at such an adolescent ploy"

This post caused our bottom rung MM mindless retarded parrots to start another Jacquelina Penelope Pink Polly Pansy Putz Maddow Mosciw Pelosi Pantywaste office pool, with you the stupid lying idiot choosing which from among the selected not funny not bothered to be read comments you the stupid lying idiot was the least funny not bothered to be read comment.

MM staff at that time was sure they were a lock to win, which would allow MM staff to satisfy the "taste for the latest titanium graphite fossil fuel powered big dog driver brought to the market by NASA's outreach into industrial secrets pilfered from centuries of muslim scientific contributions" MM staff was salivating over in Pavlovian fashion, and that MM staff would win the office pool with your pick for the least funny not bothered to be read comment that was about your very own words "I can get an abortion, or an anal probe".

MM staff was despondent when you the stupid lying idiot chose not to choose the least funny not bothered to be read comment, thereby nullifying that office pool.

MM staff experienced renewed hope for a change of driver in MM staff's golf bag when you the stupid lying idiot on 4/25 at 5:04pm then posted in response to correspondence from MM staff even though you the stupid lying idiot "don't bother reading" them.

This post caused our bottom rung MM mindless retarded parrots to start another Rachel Penelope Pink Jacquelina Moscow Maddow Putz Pansy Pantywaste Pelosi office pool, on when you the stupid lying idiot would "out stupidly lie" yourself.

MM staff had in the office pool 4/27 10:00am thru 10:59am, and won the biggest bottom rung MM retarded parrot office pool in memory when you the stupid lying idiot posted your 'rebuttal' 4/27 at 10:02am.

MM staff could not have afforded the latest tasty big dog driver if it were not for you the stupid lying idiot out stupidly lying yourself, in predictable fashion.

MM staff is even framing the 10:02am post, because words fail to describe how stupid a lying idiot you the stupid lying idiot are, but at least the framed picture will provide the first thousand as a head start.

Even our other bottom rung MM mindless retarded parrots along with MM staff, as well as bottom rung MO mindless retarded parrots and MO staff over at MoveOff, bottom rung CAP mindless retarded parrots and CAP staff at Far Left for American Progress, bottom rung HP mindless retarded parrots and HP staff at Puffington Host, and bottom rung MSNBC mindless retarded parrots and MSNBC staff at MainStream News Bombastic Crap, feel that stupid lying idiocy such as the stupid lying idiocy of your 10:02am post should be 'illegal'.

- MM staff

Purp| 4.28.12 @ 1:06AM

Boring....

From the Desk of Media Matters| 4.28.12 @ 10:03AM

Jacquelina Moscow Penelope Pelosi Pantywaste Barney Fecal Frank's Suppository/Dental Applicator,

Tell MM staff all about how House republican obstructionism caused the credit downgrade due to over 15 trillion in debt and over 100 trillion in unfunded liabilities again.

This office pool is already shaping up to be the largest ever.

- MM staff

junkyard infidel| 4.27.12 @ 11:37AM

of all the ignorant mental flatulence the perp has excreted from his cheeto's encrusted keyboard, this one could easily go to the top of the gaseous mushroom cloud that floats in his mommy's basement !

Purp| 4.27.12 @ 12:09PM

No rebuttal... typical.

PolishKnight| 4.27.12 @ 11:39AM

I'm chuckling as well. Purp is either outright delusional or wonderfully dishonest or a combination of both and insane in a psychopath kind of way.

For two years, Obama had a strong mandate and even passed commie healthcare. So there's a lot he could get done and did. 4 trillion dollars of deficit spending is not exactly him being hindered by "obstructionist" Republicans. The problem is that even if there was a magical fountain that produced showers of gold coins on the white house lawn, Obama would blow it all and unemployment would still be up. And Purp surely knows that Obama, the anointed savior, wasn't going to transform the USA into Sweden even if all the Republicans were sent to Siberia.

So Purp is fundamentally just a cheerleader hoping to gain a sense of self-importance by hanging out with a "cool" crowd. Wow, Obama was on late night TV and "cool" because everyone worshiped him. He's like Fonzie. eeehh! Like Fonzie, Obama's a big fake who doesn't even know how to ride his own motorcycle. Ehhhh! I'm cool! Ehhhh!

Hahahaha!

Purp| 4.27.12 @ 12:20PM

Ah, finally, a rebuttal ... however, not the rebuttal I expected. An awful lot of description of me is typical tripe from someone with no argument. It's amazing how the Senate filibuster rule is forgotten conveniently.
Deficits don't matter, St. Reagan told us that. Is that all you got? Why don't you ask Reagan, Papa and Baby Bush where they thought 10Trillion in gold coins were going to come from? You didn't care then, and I don't care now.
Have you bothered to see what they have in Sweden? Not that I want us to be Sweden, but they have some lessons we could learn - Switzerland too, Germany, S.Korea too. The fact you look down your nose on other countries tempts fate that we won't be exceptional - only exceptionally stupid.

Curtis Rasmussen| 4.27.12 @ 1:36PM

Asinine straw man argument. Don't defend statements that the troll accuses you of making.

Purp| 4.27.12 @ 3:07PM

Typical useless response ....

PolishKnight| 4.27.12 @ 3:50PM

That's just it, Purp: Your blame of GW and excuses for Obama are also useless. All that leftists can accomplish is to spend taxpayer money, cry victim, cast blame, and then feel better about themselves for some reason. I personally don't "get it" why they feel good about it, but then again I didn't "get" hanging around at a cafeteria table in High School and obsessing over the popular crowd either.

For conservatives, all of these issues are personal in a variety of ways. It's about how long a vacation we can take based upon how much it will cost after gasoline and airfare are factored in, how many children can we (responsibly) afford to have after we foot the bill for taxes, etc. For the average leftist, none of it matters other than some cynical concern over the effect on them winning the next election or going after their enemies. For all their talk about conservatives being uncaring and hating, it's clearly projection on their part. If you guys want to move to Sweden and be happy there, I wish you well from the bottom of my heart. I truly do.

PolishKnight| 4.27.12 @ 1:41PM

An argument you dismiss is not the same as no argument. Obamacare passed. Trillions of dollars in deficit spending, passed. An opportunity for Obama to keep his word and simply close down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, er "passed" (as in he passed the option over.) That's an argument whether you like it or not. Reagan got positive results AND re-elected. Baby Bush, also re-elected after beating Al Gore. Tee hee.

Here's the thing: Switzerland, Sweden, and Germany are comprised mostly of people who don't look like Obama's son. Get it? And as the non-European populations of those nations increase, they are not becoming more affluent but rather less. You can criticize me for looking down at those nations but Obama and yourself live in a contradictory, paradoxical universe where you worship Europe for being European even as you bash Europeans as being the problem here. It's a totally absurd paradigm.

Purp| 4.27.12 @ 8:12PM

You forgot about South Korea in my list... they don't look like Germans, Swedes or Swiss either - get it? Racist pig.
You could also look a Japan too - they care for their people too, and until very recently were the world's #2 Economy. China has that rank now. But even countries not as successful as America can care for their people and still be economic powerhouses - you don't find that curious? They can do that, but the fearmongers say it's gonna bankrupt us? You don't see anything strange in that fear mongering? Follow the money and you'll know where the fear mongering comes from .. I leave it to you to figure it out.

BackToBasics| 4.27.12 @ 9:22PM

It depends what you mean by the word "care." There are good and bad practices in health care, education, food programs, government child support, etc. However, the answer by our governments too often is to throw money at everything, good or bad, and hope it lands somewhere and does some goo. This is done, even if 30-40% of the money is debt as it is now at the Federal level. The debt burden alone is not showing proper "care" for our future, both near and far. Too large a percentage of the money is spent frivolously rather than wisely.

Part of it may be due to geography but Japan and S. Korea do not open their doors to millions of foreigners and try to support whatever needs they fall short in, documented or not. Nor do they pay for millions of illigitimate children, thus encouraging more illigitimacy the way we do in America. Given enough time, this will bankrupt us or cause our currency to devalue with devastating results.

BackToBasics| 4.27.12 @ 9:24PM

sp good, not goo.... sort of

Von Mises Jr| 4.29.12 @ 7:36AM

Perp, I am looking for you tomorrow. I have some more economic riddles for you, troll.

BlitheBunny| 4.27.12 @ 1:24PM

Dude...it's "R-E-P-U-B-L-I-C-A-N" Not Republicant.

Purp| 4.27.12 @ 6:00PM

That was not an error - Republicants is quite appropriate. Can't end a war, can't balance a budget, can't take care of our veterans, can't help the elderly, can't help women's health, can't help hurricane victims,can't help the homeless, can't can't, can't, can't. Republicant.

Ground Control| 4.27.12 @ 1:44PM

in other words, "I could debate you and win, but I won't because it won't help with all you stupid conservatives and everyone knows conservativism is stupid and conservatives are stupid and the world is liberal and liberalism is good and everyone knows it because its true!" amazing logic.

Purp| 4.27.12 @ 8:14PM

I don't think all conservatives are stupid - some are - but they are misguided. You don't hold the market on family values, yet you act holier than thou and that you do. You aren't any more economically fiscal than anyone else, yet you say you are. You aren't any more concerned with National Security than anyone else, and you think and say you are.
You may not all be stupid, but don't you see the irony in any of that?

Ground Control| 4.28.12 @ 1:19AM

Every word of your post is false, including "and" and "the".

DTOM!| 4.27.12 @ 3:43PM

Purp,

Item #1. Is the deficit $4 trillion more or isn't it? In round numbers, it is. Please disprove, and stop typing until you disprove that item.

If you refuse to disprove it, then identify yourself for us: are you a useful idiot or are you an unrepentant Communist?

Dolt!

Purp| 4.27.12 @ 7:29PM

I don't care - Your side didn't care that just Bush added 5 Trillion to the deficit and left Obama with 2 wars to pay for (or borrow for) and a financial and housing collapse that started on his watch. Let the Bush tax cuts lapse and we'll cut it in half. Cut defense to 5x what China spends, we'll cut it another 1/3. Raise tariffs on cheap goods and bring manufacturing back to the U.S. - we'll cut another 1/4.
If Bush would have used the surplus he had to fully fund the Social Security Trust Fund, Soc Sec would be solvent until 2080 and beyond. If he not mandated ineffectual regulatory oversight, with regulators sleeping with their charges, we might have escaped the housing bubble that burst and certainly avoided the financial collapse brought on by risky investments with no oversight to stop it.
Healthcare costs are still an issue and Bush did nothing to address it - Obama should have gone for Medicare for all - but at least he did something.
You whine and moan now, but where were you when we could have paid down the debt like we did under Clinton (a Democrat) during Bush's terms?
Just remember who has kept you safe AND captured and killed Osama Bin Laden - it wasn't a Republicant.

Susan Piercy | 4.28.12 @ 10:52AM

It is great to experience the prevarications of The Left. I call them the Magic Circle. You don't have to learn from experience, consider the evidence, apply logic, or worry about the consequences. It's all magic and it is a wonderful reprieve from Realville.

Oldefarte| 4.29.12 @ 1:59PM

Your ".....I'll note just one item - the downgrade of U.S. Creditworthiness by S&P came as a direct result of the obstructionist policies emanating from the Republicant House of Representatives over the debt ceiling increase - and S&P said so themselves...." demonstrates your complete ignorance of finance, business and economics! You really are partisaned and stupid. The downgrade was due to the D's and R's inability to begin the process of reducing the government's defecit and debt. The simple truth is D's want to INCREASE TAXES and R's want to DECREASE SPENDING; and since the government's welfare expenses should be decreased by a minimum of 40% [due to its excessive amounts], the D's SOCIALISTIC political agenda is the source of the excessive defecit/debt. Due to D's being political prostitutes providing more and more governmental welfare to their indigent blood-sucking constituents in return for their votes, therein lies the problem. If D's would consider what is best for this nation's economy, they would agree with R's to reduce governmental welfare spending in order to reduce the government's defecit/debt and the problem would be thus solved. Since the D's do not care about their country and want it to be destroyed, they continue their blood-sucking demand for more and more welfare spending [and correspondingly demand that the RICH ie any taxpayer with income pay for same through more and more taxiation]. If the D's would do their jobs as representatives of this nation and consider its economic well being, they would have consented to a reduction in governmental welfare/expenses and the defecit/debt problem would have begun to be solved. They didn't selfishly and therefore the bond rating for this country's debt was downgraded by S&P etc. Case closed!!!!!

ractivist | 4.29.12 @ 9:15PM

clueless useful idiot in action. Anyone who believes what you posted should be spanked for idiocy. Where do you get your information? This potus is a figurehead to the powers that be, the same one's who controlled Bush, etc... One world government is the goal. It is not a them against us reality, they framed this paradigm. It is an establishment elite, tptb, who control most every position of power and influence in the government, the media, academia, the courts, Hollywood and even the church. It's the fifth column let loose by the communist menace decades ago..and now the end run on our constitution is upon us. They divide us, as they destroy our economy. World War Three will be unleashed soon enough, as tptb make large sums of money, and put the people back into subject slavery for national interest. "It's a corrupt and subverted government, stupid!"
God guns n grub, guys n gals, the new 5G network. Spread the word "prepare". But know who the enemy is, and don't be a useful idiot anymore.

Michelle| 4.27.12 @ 10:24AM

So Purp, thanks for the typical liberal response. It was certainly expected and predicatable so now it is at least out of the way. Progressive thinking is that there "is no point in trying" to debunk when there is truthfully no reasoned response available. I am surprised you didn't blame Bush for this list of 50! There is no getting around the fact that this president has tripled our debt with his policies. And thank goodness he was held back by the Repub obstructionists or we would certainly be in far worse shape by now.

And--Let's add to this list the steep reduction in medicare reimbursement rates to doctors and healthcare providers...expected to be cut again next year. Many docs expect to close their practices as a result since not only will they make no money at all, it will cost them money out of pocket to provider care to their medicare patients.

Purp| 4.27.12 @ 12:21PM

Some of it hasn't even happened and they all can be debunked as hurting anything because they are described incompletely, which is also a typical right wing trick.

Tim the Enchanter| 4.27.12 @ 4:34PM

Burp- grab your dictionary and look up the word "twit". It's the one beside your picture.

Dixie Pixie| 4.27.12 @ 6:09PM

Perhaps the following sketch could help the rest of us to understand the {{ Purp }}.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSqkdcT25ss

Purp| 4.27.12 @ 7:29PM

Typical low intelligence right wing response... are you 12?

Dixie Pixie| 4.27.12 @ 5:57PM

Ok PURP...You are ON.

Point (1)....A month ago I was talking to a family friend who is a longstanding Pharmacist.
He showed me the reimbursement rate for a common generic cholesterol drug.
It was cost plus one dollar for $1600.00 worth of drugs.
Another federal reimbursement was two dollars over cost for $2400.00 of a common generic blood-pressure drug.

Obama The Messiah, will soon drive down the medical reimbursement rates below the point where the supporting health-care professionals can even keep the lights on.
Definitely a two point shot as Obama puts people out of work by closing down a local pharmacy and depriving people of needed medical care.

Point (2)....Obama intervened in Libya to stop Qaddafi from massacring an guesstimated 300 Rebels in a massacre only Bill O'Reilly and Obama could see.
He took credit for killing Qaddafi even after disclaiming any active role and supposedly confining American Armed forces to support roles.
This is after the State and Defense Departments repeatedly claimed no American personal were in or above Libya.

Yet Obama implied that he was the driving force in the Libyan War through his doctrine of “Leading From Behind”.
This is despite the Libyan War was undeclared by Congress thus an illegal war against a internationally recognized legitimate government.

Finality, since there is no one faction strong enough to impose a central government and Obama will not allow anyone to impose one from the outside, Libya is doomed to years of Civil War that has already spilled over to Mali.

So to stop the imaginary death of hundreds Obama illegally caused the continual death of thousands through an ongoing Civil War and for bonus points he supported the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafists factions in Libya.

Purp| 4.27.12 @ 7:47PM

30% of all Insurance money goes to pay for overhead - ( marketing, sales, advertising). You don't think we could use that money for medical care?
Point 1) the cost of pharmaceuticals is outrageous of course ... but Big Pharma does not pay for the research that is paid for by us taxpayers - we subsidize their research and obscene amounts of money for a drug should/could be lowered easily. In business, you charge whatever you can get away with - ergo "caveat emptor". But in healthcare, just as with food, we are captives to our needs, not our wants. If the free market were really at play, drugs would be cheaper or they wouldn't exist. Who the hell could afford it otherwise? You don't see anything wrong with that picture?
Point 2) How interesting you are so concerned with the plight of Arabs in order to blame this President for something. America did "Lead from behind" ultimately, supplying air coordination and CC strategic assistance as well as humanitarian assistance. You're funny to even bring up the "undeclared war" factoid. You mean like GW Bush and Iraq? How about Grenada? Panama? I guess they don't count.
I suppose you support the Syrian "legitimate" government too? Even though the Arab League and almost the entire International Community does not.
Next you'll be telling me you support Iran's right to have a nuclear weapon ... Really?
If you really want to know where the roots of Arab and Islamic discontent started - hark back to our invasion of Beirut, Lebanon under St. Reagan. We had 200 some service members blown up and it was right then Araby saw that America could be defeated due to Reagan's weak response - he tucked tail and ran away. So blame the right wing for that seed being planted that grew into 9/11.
While I commend your concern for humanity in the middle east - President Obama killed Somali pirates in a ballsy move and the # 1 public enemy, Osama Bin Laden - Something GW Bush couldn't do in 8 years, and gave up, and Richie Romney wouldn't do (he'd have to ask his wife what she thinks first).

Dixie Pixie| 4.28.12 @ 6:49PM

Purp....You blew it.

Point (1) was about the falling rates of Federal reimbursement for Medicaid and Medicare drugs, not the Liberal mythologies of Big Pharmaceutical and Big Bad Insurance Companies.

Obama clearly stated he was taking 500 billion dollars from Medicare and putting it into ObamaCare.
Of course this will limit the reimbursement for Medicare drugs.
What you did not get is the profit margin has been cut to .0625% in the first case and .0833% in the second case.

Liberals in general consider “Profit” to be Evil.
It is instead what gets the bills payed to keep people on the payroll, the utilities paid and a societies needs fulfilled.
Obama has deliberately cut the reimbursement rate below what is necessary to keep vitally need drugs flowing to the populace thus endangering the health of the populace while putting the family owned pharmacies on the brink of going out of business.

Point (2).... Again you failed to see the point.
Obama lied from beginning to end about the Libyan War.
Liberals have always maintained that lying about warfare to the America public is the most heinous of crimes.
Not only that, Liberals have maintained from the Vietnam War onwards the War Powers Act was an absolute and to violate it was a War Crime in itself and grounds for the immediate expulsion of the President from office.

Obama violated Law, Honor and Military Custom and not one Liberal raised a word about it.
Libyans are continuing to die for Obama's lies and the Liberals think he is a “Messiah” for it.

Purp....You scatter “Red Herrings” like confetti to try to cover up the fact that Obama is doing real evil in the world.
When are you going to wise up and admit Obama is a humanitarian disaster as well as an illegal President by the Liberals own definition.

Von Mises Jr| 4.29.12 @ 7:39AM

Dixie, Don't waste your time arguing with Perpy. He never answers a question. I have given him riddles on Marxism, Keynesian economics and worldview conundrums explained by Hayek and Rand. But he NEVER ANSWERS a question.

I suspend all responses to Perpy's diatribes until he at least ANSWERS ONE of my riddles.

idalily| 4.30.12 @ 2:12PM

I'm still waiting for him to give me an explanation of why it is morally justifiable to take money from some by force and redistribute that money to those deemed more worthy. He has not responded, because he CAN'T. There is no moral justification and he knows it. All the left knows it. That's why they ultimately need government to be totalitarian. We must be FORCED to help the poor, FORCED to buy health insurance, FORCED to hire people based on gender or skin color, FORCED to save the smelt, FORCED to pay for manufacture of cars that are crap. Don't worry. It's all for our own good, right Comrade Perp?

Oldefarte| 4.29.12 @ 2:01PM

See my above explanation, dumbars!!!!!

Jeanne Smith| 4.29.12 @ 7:01AM

Michelle is right. My husband has been in practice 30 years. He genuinely loves his patients and they love him back. He started a group of healthcare professionals who set up a free/reduced cost clinic in our county. He has been a fighter for patients' rights in our state for many years and a member of the AMA where he opposed their cave-in to Obamacare.

So many lies are told about physicians in the Alinsky "isolate and demonize" fashion: The public is not aware of this: physicians do a significant amount of charity care in their practices and they do see people who can't pay. The number of these varies with each practice. How many "no pay" patients should doctors be forced to care for? When free health care becomes a right, then healthcare workers will be forced to guarantee those rights.
My husband works 12 hours a day, 6 days a week but sold his private practice several years ago and joined a group practice because of crushing government regulations/hassles over how he is "allowed" to care for his patients. He spends 3 of those 12 hours a day doing government mandated paperwork.

When Obamacare is forced upon us, he will close out his career. He is 60 years old. The sad part of all this is that it is the patients who will be hurt more than anyone.

Occam's Tool| 4.29.12 @ 11:29PM

Jeanne: G-d Bless your husband. I remember doing 50K of charity work a year too, when I was in private practice.

A Grin without a Cat| 4.27.12 @ 10:33AM

malice of forethought?

TLP| 4.27.12 @ 10:40AM

I still hate him.

Johnny Lucid| 4.27.12 @ 11:05AM

I like Gary Shapiro, but I must quibble with the use of "imposed" as if Obama did so without the connivance of Congress which passed some seriously flawed (an understatement) legislation. Plus there's a number of items here that were or are eagerly sought by corporate interests, to hell with the rest of us.

vtwin| 4.27.12 @ 12:19PM

U.S. Economy Posts Growth for 10th [it is 11 quarters now] Straight Quarter:
http://iipdigital.usembassy.go.....z1tG0ogmw6

Stock Market at All-Time High:
http://www.crossingwallstreet......-high.html

Purp| 4.27.12 @ 12:24PM

Don't bother - Obama had nothing to do with any of that - that's all you'll hear. He only hurts the economy, but anything good, it's not his doing. They are closed minded, hypocritical and can't see past him being Black.

Oldefarte| 4.29.12 @ 2:06PM

Typical racism, gentrification, discrimination, disenfranchisement, etc BS; when one of these liberal morons can't tell the truth about their socialist Chicago community organizer, taxpayer funded Harvard law professor in chief! Worthless POS should never have been elected, since he's the most unqualified POTUS this country has ever had. The last three plus years have been a disaster from his administration's socialistic policies/programs which are bankrupting this country. If he is not defeated in November, this country will become Cuba North in the next two years...its that simple[and it has nothing to do with RACE] !!!!!!!

Drunken Sailor| 4.27.12 @ 12:41PM

Economic growth cooled in the first quarter
http://www.reuters.com/article.....5W20120427

U.S economy grows at a tepid 2.3%, misses estimates of 2.5%
http://www.cnbc.com/id/47202822

vtwin| 4.27.12 @ 2:16PM

Ok, but my point is Shapiro is clearly engaged in a campaign of misinformation when he says “Obama has been the worst president for business in my lifetime.” Obama has been good for Business and this is reflected in the growth in the economy and the stock market sense Obama policies have been in effect. See links.

Need more? Shapiro’s point #1; “[Obama] Increased the deficit more than $4 trillion, causing the first-ever downgrade in the U.S. credit rating and for the first time raising serious questions about U.S. financial stability.” Wrong, when Bush took office in 2001, he inherited a $236 billion budget surplus, with a projected 10-year surplus of $5.6 trillion. And On Jan. 7, 2009, two weeks before Obama took office, the CBO reported the deficit was projected to be $1.2 trillion for 2009 with a projected 10-year shortfall of $5.1 trillion. The CBO projected the deficits we see today because of Bush’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (not paid for), Bush’s tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 (not paid for), Bush’s drug benefit added to Medicare (not paid for), and the Bush recession/depression with began in 2007 which we are still paying for.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/0.....t_outlook/

Curtis Rasmussen| 4.27.12 @ 2:45PM

It's all Bush's fault. Moron.

If the facts don't fit, then make something up. Heck Obama does it all the time.

Reagan also inherited a boondoggle from the former nominee for worst president in US history, Jimmy Carter. Reagan turned that around pretty quick. What's Obama's excuse?

vtwin| 4.27.12 @ 7:15PM

There is no comparison between what Reagan found upon entering office and the economic and foreign policy disasters Obama inherited from Bush. And we both know it.

Curtis Rasmussen| 4.28.12 @ 12:11AM

You're right. Reagan's plight inherited from Carter was much worse.

Purp| 4.27.12 @ 7:53PM

Curtis can't defend against the truth - Reagan's plight was small potatoes compared to what trash Dubya left behind. I know it hurts, but your guy just wasn't up to the job - my guy was and is. You tried to throw Grandpa McCain at us with crazy lady Sarah "I can see Russia from my House" Palin, and now you want us to swallow Richie Romney with his car elevator with his wife skirts to hide behind, I can't wait to see who he picks as VEEP candidate. I hope it's GW Bush's Budget Director (what fun we'll have with that one! )

Curtis Rasmussen| 4.28.12 @ 12:08AM

Did ever say I was a republican?

Straw man dip***t, read the following:

http://online.wsj.com/article/.....60784.html

How can an individual be as stupid as you and so proudly post to this blog for a daily pummeling? BTW, you fool no one by agreeing with yourself using different monikers.

What's the point in arguing with you? Inconvenient facts will do nothing to sway the hard-left troll. I will say no more. You bore me.

John H| 4.28.12 @ 12:17PM

Yeah, Purp, Bush had 9/11, the two wars, and Clinton's financial scandals to clean up. All of which he did so Obama doesn't have to. Bush added $4 trillion to the debt in 8, years - Obama added $5 trillion in 3 years. The worst unemployment under Bush was 6.8% - under Obama it got to 10% and is now 8.0%. In short, Obama is a juvenile weasel that needs to "man up" instead of complaining - if that is even possible for him.

John H| 4.28.12 @ 12:20PM

Now I got it figured, you're only 12 years old , Purp! You would have to be to not realize how bad things were under Carter - or to see the parallels with Obama. We had double-digit inflation under Carter, high gas prices, high unemployment, appeasement as a foreign policy, oodles of new regulations, and a president that blamed the American people for not making his repressive policies "work". Sound familiar. We now have Jimmy Carter II in Obama.

Oldefarte| 4.29.12 @ 2:09PM

I really wish little tyranical liberal excrements like you would go blog on the NYT etc site instead........as Santorum said, YOU MAKE ME WANT TO PUKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JP| 4.28.12 @ 11:15AM

You're wrong, vtwin.

In 2007, Bush ran a defecit of $180 billion. In 2008, he added Stimuls I ($180 billion) and TARP ($100 billion). Total defecits as a conseqence was $480 billion. The 2009 budget from Obama added $800 billion (Stimulus II) plus an additional $1 trillion additional spending. His defecit for 2009 was $2 trillion. Since then, he has added $3 trillion. And since you bring up Clinton and his 1999-2000 budget (his 2000-2001 budget ran defecits), I suggest we return to Clinton era spending ($1.8 trillion). The 2009 budget was never passed by either Pelosi or Reid.

Funny, but Obama has been President for 3.5 years. But you never once recognize that he's been at the helm. You're still bitching about Bush (why not bring up Reagan?).

Mike Hawk| 4.29.12 @ 8:50AM

Bush 43 was not responsible for Porkulus 1. That was all Demorat largesse. W was not President for Porkulus 1, but did sign TARP. A mistake.

glassfinger| 4.27.12 @ 12:41PM

So, anyone who will admit to having voted for BO, and still has any common sense (not mutually exclusive, I know): paying attention now?

Ron| 4.27.12 @ 2:47PM

I always read Purp's, Jack's and Clint's comments for the laughter factor...Wait, they could be the new Three Stooges...Purp, Jack and Clint...Jack: "Hey Clint, look over there, it's an Israel Firster...Clint: "Yeah, yeah, standing next to the Jew holding the Palestinians in a concentration camp"...Purp: Don't worry fellas, Obama will save em for sure, just like he saved the US from Bush's evil economic policies...nyuk, nyuk, nyuk"...

Don't worry stooges, you can hate me...I am a man married to an lovely American Jewish female and we both carry concealed, totally admires Bibi Netanyahu, Golda Meir, David Ben-Gurion, the IDF, Mossad, and Mickey Marcus (look him up idiots), thinks Ron Paul is a complete idiot, loves the United States, has served in the military and hates Communists...is that enough for ya' crybabies to bash me on?

oops, got a little sidetracked from the article...Everything NerObama does is destructive to the US economy...Cannot have too much success, or he will lose the dependent class vote come November.

Purp| 4.27.12 @ 7:54PM

Attack the messengers, never the message - typical right wing response when you have no answers to any problem - except give me my own money and f** the world.

Mike Hawk| 4.29.12 @ 8:55AM

You are no messager, but a useful idiot of the left and a drone.

Oldefarte| 4.29.12 @ 2:16PM

Oh idot, I have an answer for you types [and it ain't 'f^%k the world'. It's simply this: Every human being/individual in this country SHOULD BE INDIVIDUALLY REPSONSIBLE FOR THEIR OWN PERSONAL ECONOMIC/FINANCIAL WELFARE. Translation: want a house, go work and pay for it yourself [without the gov'ment, ie taxpayers]; ditto healthcare; ditto education; ditto transportation; ditto food; and lower/reduce taxpayers' income tax bills accordingly. If you don't understand the message, I'll translate that for you also.....it is EAT EXCREMENT AND DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bob S| 4.27.12 @ 3:22PM

The positive actions are just so he can have talking points comparing himself with Reagan, so that barely aware independents can focus on the right hand without looking at what the left hand is doing.

Bill| 4.27.12 @ 3:31PM

Repeal Obamacare, and that should take care of some of the problems we are facing right now.

DTOM!| 4.27.12 @ 3:45PM

Less than HALF, way less than half!

Bill| 4.27.12 @ 3:56PM

Off course, We must defeat Obama and take back the senate.

Purp| 4.27.12 @ 7:55PM

How? It's not even been enacted fully...

Oldefarte| 4.29.12 @ 2:19PM

It'll either be blown up by the SCOTUS or by the 11/6/12 election with the taxpayers' expression of goodwill, ie GTH!!!!!!!!

Bill| 4.27.12 @ 4:34PM

Veep short list:
1. Bob McDonald: the South
2. Jeb Bush: Sunshine Guru
3. kelly Ayotte: Women votes
4. Mitch Daniel: Rush-Belt fiscal hawk
5. Chris Chritie: Straight talker, no apology
Rob Portman, Pat Toomey, macro Rubio do not want the VP job.
My pick: Kelly Ayotte
Why: GOP must win the women votes.

Purp| 4.27.12 @ 7:59PM

You tried this before - don't remember the responses to each of your poor choices?
1. Bob McDonald - Governor vaginal probe, yes please.
2. Jeb Bush - "BUSH" - okay 'nuf said on that one
3. Kelly Ayotte - Who? ah, no.
4. Mitch Daniel - Mommy won't let me, no.
5. Chris Christie - Governor Rude Lard A**, no.
GOP must win women votes - have you been on the moon, that ship has sailed already.
NOW the GOP House wants to pay for college loans by eliminating women's health programs? Great idea...

John H| 4.28.12 @ 12:14PM

Purp, you should change your name to "perp", that would fit better. Your sheeple entitlement mentality is juvenile and harmful to this country.

Mike Hawk| 4.28.12 @ 1:30PM

Purp prefers a Socialist tyranny to individual freedom in a free Republic. Purp does not like this country nor our culture. Purp is a statist who prefers big government control of you life rather than allowing you liberty to conduct your life by you own initiative.

Oldefarte| 4.29.12 @ 2:26PM

Okay Barry the Dog Eater Jr, the female vote hasn't sailed.....you didn't get the memo about their failed attempt to bring out the lesbian adopter of two out with her/their message of ANN DIDN'T WORK A DAY IN HER LIFE. After that baloon blew up and sank, this lesbo turned tail and disappeared after the public outcry from same. Oh and as to college tuition loans, most of us take the position of LET THE LITTLE SNOT-NOSERS PAY FOR THEIR OWN TUITION AND GET DEGREES IN UNDERWATER BASKETWEAVING 101, then proceed to work at Mickey D's using their worthless piece of paper-degree. Want a tuition loan? Go get it from MOMMIE AND DADDIE [what daddy disappeared twelve years ago and mommie's doing drugs.....tough excrement....go get a job....oh wait there are no jobs thanks to your emperior, right?]!!!!!!!!!

Allen| 4.27.12 @ 5:50PM

Don't forget the Obama Administration picked survival of the three-inch delta smelt fish over water for the once-fertile farmlands of the Central San Joaquin Valley in California, causing massive unemployment and a crippling blow to the area's economy. San Francisco weidos in the U.S. Congress, especially Nancy Pelosi and George Miller, must still be smiling about this one.

Nite| 4.28.12 @ 11:38PM

Yep, your comments are right on the money. The San Joaquin valley was considered to be the breadbasket of the US. No longer, most of the farms have been destroyed and sold because of the bait fish. These enviro wackos would rather let the river water run into the ocean than let the farms use it. I am not sure that the smelts would not die in the salt water. Go figure about these loons.

Jeanne Smith| 4.30.12 @ 12:59PM

Is anyone making a list of all the businesses, industries and states run by Republicans/conservatives who are being deliberately targeted for extinction by the Obama administration? Think about it: Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas are all conservative-run states and what happened to them as a result of Obama's response to the oil spill? Arizona is being sued by our own government:it's governor is Republican. The San Joaqin valley in California where the water was shut off usually votes Republican, does it not?
It would be interesting to know about the coal companies-are their owners Republican donors? They are being shut down and one plant near Chicago was spiked so it can never be reopened. This is exactly what the British did to the Irish people when they conquered Ireland. Cripple the people so they have no expendable income. In America, that translates into the left's attempt to defund conservative political speech. Know your enemy...

POST American| 4.27.12 @ 10:41PM

Seeing beyond the front op that IS
--'BAR--Rockefeller' H. Obama---

"Remember folks, NONE of this is
happening by accident. NONE of it's
happenstance. This is a long, long
planned, carefully engineered, micro-managed
program ---launched by the CFR--RIIA
several decades ago to transfer the world
industrial ecomony to their wage serf borg
RED China ---to takedown the West ---and to
bring in MASSIVE and RAPID depopulation
(ie GENOCIDE). NOTHING is happening
by accident. NOTHING is being left to
chance. ABSOLUETLY NOTHING---."
-Informed online

AGAIN --in this, the undeniably unfolding
11th hour of the CFR---RED China handover,
takedown, TREASON, OCCUPATION and
FINAL EUGENICS OP ------------TAKE HEED!

"When the Globalists are FINALLY
brought to justice, history will look back
on this time as the greatest covert GENOCIDE
mankind has ever witnessed. It's US or
them. We can't afford to lose."
-ALEX JONES

--------------YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED-------------

John H| 4.28.12 @ 12:13PM

Actually, by my calculations, Obama has increased the national debt $5 trillion - in just 3 years. Amazing.

TeaPartyPatriot4ever| 4.28.12 @ 11:08PM

The left is a cancerous toxic ideology, and can and will completely destroy a civilized society of Freedom, Liberty, Democracy, and the Truth, in a blink of an eye.

Liberals cannot change the mindsets and attitude of the people, which thus translates into votes at the ballot box, without their indoctrination propaganda, aka their incessant incendiary dogmatic rhetoric of lies, and people in the right places to implement their anti-American, anti-US Constitutional Individual Freedom and Liberty policies. Thus liberals use their pretense of tolerance and inclusiveness as a ruse to be intolerant, controlling, and even violent to anyone they wish to, and pretend that the law is only what they say it is, and is only applied to who and what and when they say it does, excluding them of course.

Their indoctrination of fraudulent and delusionary world of illogic, irrational, and erroneous and arrogant hate filled views, is all based and derived from their ideology of liberal anti-Democratic anti-Freedom- Socialist-Marxism, aligns itself with anything that promotes, advocates, and implements that view, verbally, in print, and especially in action.

That's the only way they can take over the Nation's politics, is by brainwashing the people into believing that Individual Freedom and Liberty, Democracy and the US Constitution are bad and wrong, and that an all powerful govt is the only way, in the name of the people. Isn't that what the former USSR was all about, the deception and lies in the name of the people.. and the people suffered for 70 years of brutality, oppression, labor camps, torture, and murder, because of it.. And they want you to believe that that was all a rumor.

So when Obama and the hard left wage their continued war assault on America, Individual Freedom and Liberty, the US Constitution, Religion, and so on, they do so intentional with the intention to destroy the US Economy, America's Energy supply, thus America's Independence and ability to operate and sustain it's own self Domestically and Internationally, and with it the system and infrastructure of Capitalism itself, including and part of the equation- the burdening of America and the American People with unsustainable National debt so massive, that it eventually collapses the whole system of the American Republic, thus the country.. So when people accuse Obama and the hard left cronies in his administration of incompetence, it doesn't do anything to them, because they could care less about being perceived as incompetent, as it is not their intention to be responsible and competent Stewarts of the Nation's govt., it is their intention to destroy it.

This is why the far left will always be the aggressor, the instigator, aka the problem. Thus is why conservatives will always be the defender of Freedom and Liberty, of Equal Justice, of the US Constitution, of Democracy, and of Truth and Righteousness.

So the only way to deal with these people, especially when they use their radical leftist tactics and strategies of denigration, polarization, ridicule, mockery, smearing, false accusations coupled with their incendiary dogmatic political lies/propaganda, and so on in their coordinated media attacks, is to first is to hit them hard and fast with the truth, and constantly, and articulately, and precisely, from all sides and at immediately. Secondly, put into office and power real real hard core Reagan Constitutional Conservative people in the US Senate, like candidate Ted Cruz of Texas, and current Sen. Jim DeMint of SC, and get rid of the RINO's in Congress like McConnell, Boehner and Cantor, and especially put a Real Reagan Conservative in the White House, which seems apparently won't happen with the election of Mr Mass Progressive Republicrat RINO Romney.

Regardless, this is our best weapon, and will always be our weapon, in our battle to save America as a US Constitutional Republic, where the People and particularly the individual human being is supreme, not an all powerful the govt.. "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely".

Quote-

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"

Jeanne Smith| 4.29.12 @ 6:11AM

Oil companies (and the vast number of spin-off industries and their employees) have been severely hurt by Obama's wrath. Oil company executives should band together to help us get rid of Obama and his goons by raising the price of gas to $10/gallon in September. Immediately after His Coolness leaves office, drop the prices to 2.50. Once conservatives take control, more drilling permits should be issued and regulations should be eased so the pipeline could be approved. (Yes, I know that would only happen in some parallel universe)

Mike Hawk| 4.29.12 @ 8:27AM

You have an extremely distorted vision of the oil / petroleum business. There are none of those monolithic vertically integrated 'Big Oil' companies any more. There are oil exploration companies, transport, refining, marketing, retail all separate and for the most part indepedent. Go look for an Exxon station, you won't find one. Exxon isn't in the retail sales end anymore. Retail sales are mostly francises now. The market controls the price of petroleum and the retail product which are not just gasoline, but deisel, kerosene Jet A, Asphalt, chemical stocks etc. If by chance the 'oil execs' banded to increase the prices, they would all be prosecuted for price fixing and end up in jail. The Oborg would like to do that but can't because there is no case. Don't make statements about the impossible.

Fayiza| 5.25.12 @ 3:19AM

Thank God for parallel universes!

POST American| 4.30.12 @ 12:01AM

-----------------BOTTOMLESS LINE-------------------

---JUST IN!

-----'BREITBART Coroner POISONED to DEATH'
----InfoWars.com

-in this, the UNDENIABLE 11th hour
of the CFR--RED China handover, takedown,
TREASON, OCCUPATION and FINAL
EUGENICS OP.

"Fascism NEVER turns back---"
-Benito Mussolini
(1924)

That's right kiddies! ---NEVER! ----TAKE HEED

----------------Just a little BLAST from the PAST.

Fayiza| 5.25.12 @ 3:16AM

I'm no Obama fan but frankly there are a few Obamaisms listed here i find no particular fault with:
8. More drilling, more polluting, Gulf like accidents very likely.
14. U R clearly a corporate Biz owner not a worker
19. God forbid corporations pay more taxes
21.For the most part, they R greedy
24. Need I say Chernobyl & Fukushima, duh! Gotta be a better way than oil & nuclear. Both proved dirty & deadly.
31. So what would be the incentive to hire a disabled person if job site can't accommodate?

ray | 5.28.12 @ 7:25AM

WOW!.
I dont know where to start correcting you. The DOW is up 60%, he compromised and extended the Bush tax cuts! Detroit is maxed out! Manufacturing is increasing.

Every Republican gov is touting an improving economy.

The author is a conservative hack!

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