Give Obama Credit

The following list* of Obama's accomplishments was sent to me in a recent email:

1. First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.

2. First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.

First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.

3. First President to violate the War Powers Act.

4. First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

5. First President to defy a Federal Judge’s court order to cease implementing the Health Care Reform Law.

6. First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.

7. First President to spend a trillion dollars on ‘shovel-ready’ jobs when there was no such thing as ‘shovel-ready’ jobs.

8. First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.

9. First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.

10. First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.

11. First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.

12. First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.

13. First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.

14. First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.

15. First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.

16. First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which State they are allowed to locate a factory.

17. First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).

18. First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.

19. First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-corps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.

21. First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.

22. First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office.

23.First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records.

24. First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.

25. First President to go on multiple global ‘apology tours’.

26. First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends; paid for by the taxpayer.

27. First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.

28. First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.

29. First President to repeat the Holy Qur'and tells us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.

30. First President to take a 17 day vacation.

*I will gladly give credit to the person who compiled this list as soon as they come forward.

Holder's Conflict of Interests

I had intended to write about Eric Holder's former law firm, Covington & Burling, representing numerous detainees at Gitmo and the obvious conflicts of interest with his current position as Attorney General, but never got around to it. Yesterday The Washington Examiner bravely covers his refusal to recuse himself or provide complete information when asked by the Senate Judiciary Committee. I am not certain whether that exchange was before or after he made a fool of himself testifying that he had not considered precedent or consequences before making the decision to try KSM in New York City.

Michelle Malkin covers the complete background story today, so read the details there.

Homeland Security???

Are the anarchists listed with the other local threats to the security of the US put out by the Department of Homeland Security? As I recall, that list featured Pro-lifers, gun owners, and veterans, but I don't specifically remember any anarchy group.

The anarchists are demonstrating in Pittsburgh now. There have been arrests, businesses have boarded up their windows, and police wear riot gear, complete with personal shields. I haven't heard any numbers, but anyone can see from the pictures that the number of demonstrators is minuscule compared to the September 12 event in Washington, DC.

The Tea Party protesters, who filled the streets and side streets from the Washington Monument to the Capitol, cleaned up the after themselves, required no police outfitted with riot gear, and no arrests were made. More than a million people gathered to protest intrusive government, but there were no "incidents."

Why are these the people Homeland Security is worried about?