HERE'S THE PROOF OF WHICH POLITICAL PARTY IS WORKING FOR ME

 

 

Just showing that the GOP is for corporations and the Dems are for the people.

 

I’m really getting fed up with all the arrows being shot at this administration for their so called lack of leadership as the looser Hawk, Senator John McCain, has been doing.  Let’s just take a look at some of what this president has done for the people and with virtually no help from the other side of the aisle.

·       Brought America back from the worst financial failures which were started under two Bush war-mongering administrations.

·       Stopping one war, dialing down another.  (And by the way, to the looser Mitt Romney’s “I told you so” for the US not staying longer in Iraq to quell the current civil war.  Just forget that the American public was against staying and anyway, the Iraqi’s said “no”.)

·       Getting Osama bin Laden after 10 years of Bush-Cheney failures.

·       Stopping over 600,000 job losses and adding new jobs every month starting 6 months after taking office.  (9.7 million jobs added in 52 straight months under President Obama)

·       Wall Street was at 6500 at the end of 2008, but it closed last month at 17,000, highest closing # ever.

·       Due to Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act now says 8 million more Americans have insurance than one year ago. 

·       Obamacare will not kill jobs.  In fact, the CBO says the ACA will free people, young and old, to pursue careers or retirement without them having to worry about health coverage.

·       Wall Street reformed under Obama’s Dodd-Frank Bill

·       Saving US Auto Industry (And no Mitt, not by letting it go bankrupt.)

·       Setting higher auto fuel efficiency rules.

·       Getting Hosni Mubarak to step down in Egypt after 30 years of a severe dictatorship.

·       Stopped Bush-Cheney torture programs.

·       Took the banks out of the expensive student-loan programs.

·       Pushed renewable technology and renewable power programs.

·       Increased US Vets budget 16%

·       New GI Bill of $78 Billion for Vet’s tuition over next 10 years.

·       Increased sanctions on Iran

·       Closed dirty US power plants.

·       Signed equal pay laws bill.  (Lilly Ledbetter Bill)

·       Saved two liberal seats on US Supreme Court

·       New FDA Food Safety System

·       Killed expensive F22 program (Planes cost $358 Mil. each.)

·       Signed Children’s Health Insurance “CHIP” bill

·       Extended Stem Cell Research

·       Extended Hate Crimes Prevention Act

·       Pushed for K-12 Next Generation School Tests

·       Let 1970’s Space Shuttle Die

·       Killed Bloated US Bush Moon Mission for private investors

·       Cut Reagan Star Wars Missile Program

·       Transferred focus from Russia to Iran & No Korea Nuclear Programs

·       New START Treaty

·       Made Federal Agencies to become more “Green

·       Increased Wilderness & Watershed Protection

·       Tripled AmeriCorps

Needless to say, this is not all of what Obama has done, but he definitely has not been indecisive or lame as those in the GOP and on Fox News have been saying.

Obama also has not been sitting on his hands as those that are apparently vying for the GOP’s 2016 nomination have been saying.

Based on comments over the past week from the likes of Rand Paul, Chris Christie and Governor Rick Perry, they have already started their shots at the president and at each other in “Going for the Gold” for the 2016 support of their political base.

Apparently there’s a contest among Republicans to see who can be more shameless and irresponsible in criticizing President Obama and his foreign policy. 

Where in the hell did Chris Christie, the New Jersey governor get that, “the unrest you see in the Middle East is caused in some measure, not completely, but in some measure, by the fact that this president has not acted in a decisive, consistent way.”

Christie is accusing President Obama for actually being responsible “in some measure” for the violence between Israelis and Palestinians, Sunnis and Shiites, dictators and rebels.  I agree with the Washington Post opinion writer, Eugene Robinson, that “…those “conflicts and antagonisms that began, I seem to recall, well before Obama took office in January 2009.”   Maybe by about 1300 years?

But, did Christie offer any specific ideas about what Obama should be doing differently.   Of course not.
 

Christie said, “The president should be trying to bring stability to that region by having America be a forceful voice in favor of a democracy like Israel and be condemning, in the strongest terms and in actions, the things that are being done by Hamas against Israel.” 

And the president and the current Secretary of State have already done exactly that.

When Christie was asked if Obama should take some kind of military action in the region, Christie immediately answered, “I’m not going to give opinions on that. I’m not the president.”  You certainly are not the president, but you should at least have an opinion.

Again I agree with Mr. Robinson who wrote, “Very helpful, Governor. Please return to your intensive study of traffic patterns on the George Washington Bridge.”

All they know is  how to criticize as they have no ideas about how to govern....?

However, it will be very interesting to watch the Hawkish Texas Governor, Rick Perry, as he and the more Isolationist, Rand Paul go at it.

I thought Paul was probably correct when he wrote an op-ed in Politico about Governor Perry, saying that, “apparently his [Perry's] new glasses haven’t altered his perception of the world, or allowed him to see it any more clearly.”   This was all in response to Governor Perry’s who sees Senator Paul’s isolationist policies as a potentially grave threat to the US national security. 

Perry had also written an op-ed in the Washington Post saying that President Obama had, “confused leadership and passivity that enabled groups such as the Islamic State to grow.”

Perry said “the window to shape events for the better passed years ago.”

Of course, there was no hint of what Obama did wrong or what he should have done…? 

I had hoped that Governor Perry’s new heavy framed glasses and his no longer wearing cowboy boots was a signal that he was a bit brighter and more aware than he had appeared in the past.  Apparently, those changes were all for visual effect, kind of like putting, “lipstick on a pig”.  No matter what.....it’s still a pig.
 

As I wrote back in 2008, it would be nice to compare the actions and plans of one political party against the other.  But as it was then, other than believing in putting government into people’s bedrooms, being against all abortions and generally being war mongers and in support of all corporations, I have no idea what the Republicans ideas are in being in support of people like me, the average American citizen..? 

Looking at what Obama’s administration as done to date, I know that he works for me and his list of achievements makes that crystal clear.

When will the GOP understand that we Americans need to know why they think the American people should elect Republicans that are nothing but “do nothing” politicians?

Copyright G.Ater 2014