Indictment of a Failed Presidency:

IBD has an excellent in depth indictment of the Obama presidency.  It reads muchh like the Declaration of Independence does...as an idictment of a failed government and governmental policies.

1. Produced an anemic recovery.
2. Created a large pool of unemployed.
3. Vastly expanded the disability rolls.
4. Created a food stamp nation.
5. Massively increased regulations. .
6. Hammered the middle class.
7. Created business uncertainty.
8. Not lived up to the promises of transparency.  .
9. Increased the debt by 50%.
10. Pushed ObamaCare.
11. Driven up health care premiums.
12. Left minorities worse off.
13. Doubled down on the housing debacle.
14. Exploded spending and the deficit.
15. President Obama increased outlays to nearly 25% of GDP, a record.
16. Watched college costs surge.
17. Dragged his feet on free trade.
18. Showed a lack of interest in his job.
19. Killed the Keystone XL pipeline.
20. All told, Obama has spent $86 billion on green stimulus, with nothing other than 50 bankrupt green companies to show for it — including Solyndra, First Solar and Ener1.
21. Waged a war on coal.
22. Limited oil and gas exploration.
23. Doubled gasoline prices by restricting supply.
24. Restricted drilling permits.
25. Opposed fracking and other new technologies. 
26. Scrapped or cut badly needed weapons systems. 
27. Given away missile defense to appease Russia. 
28. Downsized the military.
29. Mishandled the "Arab Spring."
30. Ignored the rise of China.
31. Weakened ties with Israel.
32. Worst of all, Iran now has enough uranium to make five nuclear bombs, and will soon do so.
33. Shrunk our nuclear arsenal.
34. Surrendered U.S. sovereignty.
35. Fumbled the pullout from Iraq and Afghanistan. 
36. Two-thirds of U.S. deaths in Afghanistan have occurred since President Obama's surge.
37. Lessened respect for the U.S. around the world. 
38. Bailed out the auto industry and auto unions. 
39. Singled out companies for politicized attacks. 
40. Appointed unaccountable "czars."
41. Done nothing about Fast and Furious gunrunning.
42. Politicized the Justice Department.
43. Scrapped our space program.
44. Not defended Americans abroad.
45. Rebooted rules that caused the subprime crisis. 
46. Mainstreamed the radical Muslim agenda. .
47. Pushed stimulus and TARP.

Read the whole thing.

Obama: Mission Accomplished!

Obama promised that energy prices would skyrocket,



he even appointed an energy secretary who wants very high gas prices,



With gas prices now approaching $6 a gallon in California, $5 a gallon here in Maryland. My electric bill has doubled in the past 4 years...I'd say:

Mission Accomplished, Mr. President.

Gas Prices Rising, Eletricity Rising...

All has been forseen...it's what The One wanted..

McCain Was RIght

In 2008, John McCain said we'd have $4 a gallon gas prices if we elected Obama...he was right!

Mr. Obama promised us that energy prices would skyrocket and he has delived on his promise.



can we afford much more of this? I sure can't.

Hat-tip, Instapundit

His Desire Has Come To Pass...

In the last presidential campaign Barack Obama said that under his plan, energy prices would skyrocket, they have...




now the rest of us have pay the price...

Obama's Energy Program

If there exists one image that typifies Obama's energy program it's this:

The for sale sign says it all...

Hat tip, Legal Insurrection.

$4, $5 Per Gallon of Gas...McCain Was Right

In 2008, John McCain predicted that if Barack Obama was elected president, Obama's energy policies would see $4 +  per gallon of gas...McCain was right...




Obama's energy policies are predicated on the proposition that expensive costs would make 'green' energy sources financially viable. That's the only way that solar-wind production system will break even. That's why the Obama administation has enforced a moritorium on energy production off the coasts of the Carolinas and in the Gulf of Mexico as well as shale oil in western states, much less Alaska.

In 1995, the Clinton administration denied further exploitation of Alaskan oil fields on the rationalization that it would take 10 years for those fields to produce oil...that was 17 years ago.  The current administration is content to deny the construction of the Keystone pipeline that would rapidly bring Canadian shale oil to refineries along the Gulf coast.  I suspect that's because a number of his larger donors (George Soros being one) own stock in the rail companies what are currently making huges sums of money in shipping that oil via the more expensive rail routes.

Obama's Energy Policy

Here's what candidate Obama had to say about his future administration would do to energy prices...



Well, tomorrow has arrived with skyrocketting energy prices.  I expect that the new EPA regulations being promulgated to regulate the coal industry will next force up electricity prices...

HOW'S THAT HOPE & CHANGE working out for you now?