45 Days and Counting

Let me start off with this statement:

I want Barack Obama to succeed as President of the United States.

However, with that said, it is extremely difficult to support our 44th president's early actions, political aspirations and ideology, and downright political stupidity.

As a people, we are transitioning to a political myth known as "hope and change" while the new American motto morphs into something along the lines of "America: the Land where hard-working, responsible citizens financially support those who single handily destruct the foundation of Democracy." Has a nice ring to it, eh?

Since taking office on January 20, Barack Obama's presidential approval rating has dropped (according to most polls) an estimated nine percentage points (68% to 59%) within the first six weeks. The Dow Jones, which opened at 8281.22 on the morning of Obama's inauguration, has plunged 1686.78 points. "That's a vote of practically no confidence in Obama's strategy for reviving the economy. The numbers were worse on the biggest days of the Obama presidency. The Dow fell 332.13 points on inauguration day, 381.99 points on the day Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner announced step two in the bank bailout, a 200+ point drop after his health care pitch, and 297.91 points when the president signed the stimulus bill (Barnes)." Basically, the business world has a grim outlook when it comes to President Obama's destruction of free-market capitalism (In 2010 Obama, and congressional Democrats, plan to increase capital gain taxes on businesses to an astonishing 46%. China, with its statism government is at 25%. US Companies Pay Highest Taxes in the World ).

Ever heard the proverb 'You judge a man by the company he keeps'? Apparently, the Obama administration hasn't. Bill Richardson (political donation scandal), Tim Geithner (tax cheat), Tom Daschle (tax cheat), Nancy Killefer (tax cheat), Ron Kirk (tax cheat), and Judd Gregg (saw the writing on the wall). No wonder Dems want to raise taxes, they don't pay them! Not to mention some questionable ethics by nominations that did make it through the Democratic majority approval hearings.

Then, there is the ever popular (sarcasm) stimulus bill. You know, the one that Obama praised as a bipartisan effort (3 Republicans voted in favor of the bill) and a bill that was completely diluted of pork and earmarks (which Congress,without Obama knowing?, just voted to keep over 9,000 earmarks and pet projects in the bill). The bill opens the door for socialized health care (knocking over 10 million Americans who currently have health insurance onto the government's books), does very little to create sustained job growth, gives the average American an immediate $13/week tax credit while we split the cost of the stimulus bill in increased taxes over the long haul, keeps more of the same when it comes to the failed education program in this country, nationalizes banks, and pays off the greedy CEOs and politicians who got us in this mess beginning in the 1970's.

And finally, if we can say that after 45 days on the job, Obama's reckless decision to close Gitmo without a clear plan to provide justified judicial reform to Illegal Combatants (which, under the Geneva Conventions, we have every right to detain), Obama's "be nice to abortionist" memorandum (financial support to fund abortions abroad), the 17,000 troops issued to Afghanistan without any reasonable objective, his fear-mongering when it comes to economic "catastrophe" (as he wined and dined in Chicago for 4 days) and the money-draining myth known as climate change, ridiculous attempts to appease terrorists and their organizations (and state-funded), and the continued rhetoric to blame everything on the past eight years.

Even (the smarter) Democrats are beginning to distance themselves from the Obama Administration and their ghastly tactics. For politicians are a lot like meteorologists; they forecast, easily, what is to come. And for these Democrats, visions of political careers crashing and burning is enough cause to look the other way.

How many days has it been?