>All of Obama’s broken promises to date.

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I used to blog about the manifold number of lies by the empty-suited, anti-American racist bigot that is our president, but frankly, THAT became a full time gig because his idiocy was so omni-present, and his communications plan was so full of lies that even his teleprompter revolted.

Monday, March 29, 2010 BARACK OBAMA A Long Post: The Complete List of Obama Statement Expiration Dates By popular demand, a comprehensive list of expired Obama statements… HEALTH CARE MANDATES STATEMENT: “We’ve got a philosophical difference, which we’ve debated repeatedly, and that is that Senator Clinton believes the only way to achieve universal health care is to force everybody to purchase it. And my belief is, the reason that people don’t have it is not because they don’t want it but because they can’t afford it.” Barack Obama, speaking at a Democratic presidential debate, February 21, 2008. EXPIRATION DATE: On March 23, 2010, Obama signed the individual mandate into law. HEALTH CARE NEGOTIATIONS ON C-SPAN STATEMENT: “These negotiations will be on C-SPAN, and so the public will be part of the conversation and will see the decisions that are being made.” January 20, 2008, and seven other times. EXPIRATION DATE: Throughout the summer, fall, and winter of 2009 and 2010; when John McCain asked about it during the health care summit February 26, Obama dismissed the issue by declaring, “the campaign is over, John.” RAISING TAXES STATEMENT: “No family making less than $250,000 will see any form of tax increase.” (multiple times on the campaign trail) EXPIRATION DATE: Broken multiple times, including the raised taxes on tobacco, a new tax on indoor tanning salons, but most prominently on February 11, 2010: “President Barack Obama said he is “agnostic” about raising taxes on households making less than $250,000 as part of a broad effort to rein in the budget deficit.” RECESS APPOINTMENTS STATEMENT: Then-Senator Obama declared that a recess appointment is “damaged goods” and has “less credibility” than a normal appointment. August 25, 2005. EXPIRATION DATE: March 27, 2010: “If, in the interest of scoring political points, Republicans in the Senate refuse to exercise that responsibility, I must act in the interest of the American people and exercise my authority to fill these positions on an interim basis.” BORDER SECURITY STATEMENT: “We need tougher border security, and a renewed focus on busting up gangs and traffickers crossing our border. . . . That begins at home, with comprehensive immigration reform. That means securing our border and passing tough employer enforcement laws.” then-candidate Obama, discussing the need for border security, speaking in Miami on May 23, 2008: EXPIRATION DATE: March 17, 2010: The Obama administration halted new work on a “virtual fence” on the U.S.-Mexican border, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Tuesday, diverting $50 million in planned economic stimulus funds for the project to other purposes. GUANTANAMO BAY STATEMENT: Executive Order stating, “The detention facilities at Guantánamo for individuals covered by this order shall be closed as soon as practicable, and no later than one year from the date of this order.” January 22, 2009. EXPIRATION DATE: November 19, 2010: “Guantánamo, we had a specific deadline that was missed.” MILITARY TRIBUNALS STATEMENT: “Somebody like Khalid Sheik Mohammad is gonna get basically, a full military trial with all the bells and whistles.” September 27, 2006 EXPIRATION DATE: Ongoing. “President Obama is planning to insert himself into the debate about where to try the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, three administration officials said Thursday, signaling a recognition that the administration had mishandled the process and triggered a political backlash. Obama initially had asked Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to choose the site of the trial in an effort to maintain an independent Justice Department. But the White House has been taken aback by the intense criticism from political opponents and local officials of Holder’s decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in a civilian courtroom in New York.”

There are many, many more located here at National Review Online.
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>The Political Lie and how to curtail them.

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The political question is when is a lie a lie?

Those having read my modest effort here already know I have little patience for that sort of thing. Unfortunately, here in Washington State, political lies are perfectly legal.

That’s why we receive so many of them.

Lies at the national level are well known…. well known, yet we continue to tolerate them.

Is it any wonder that the so-called “birther” movement exists? How can they believe their government?

Here locally, the more ignorant GOP’ers banded together to elect a lying scumbag as mayor of Vancouver… a lying jerk (Tim “The Liar” Leavitt) who manipulated people into actually believing he opposes tolls… which, of course, he does not do… not unlike the scumbag mayor of Portland who lied over and over again about having sex with a teenager. He lied, and attacked his accusers when he KNEW they were telling the truth.

And he still remains mayor of the zoo known as Portland.

And when that awful truth about the tolls becomes known, what happens then?

Absolutely nothing.

And because nothing will happen, what kind of message does that send to current and future politicos?

Why NOT lie? It doesn’t cost me anything, and hell, if I lie well enough, I just might get elected!

So…when do we believe? When are we supposed to believe the words spewing from the mouths of the vipers that lead us in government?

We’ve spent billions and billions on an increasingly more apparent scam known as “global warming,” in everything from getting rid of freon (R-12) (that requirement alone enriched corporations like GE to the tune of tens of billions as people swapped their refrigerators, cooling systems and air conditioners in everything from houses to cars) to nonsensical measures here locally such as requiring certain utilities to produce percentages of power only from so-called “green sources.”

Does that mean that I believe no steps should be, or should have been taken to reduce pollution? Of course not.

But we as a nation are poised on a precipice to act in the best interests of the liars and swindlers who control the White House and almost every level of government down to cemetery districts.

My question: Where’s the outrage?

We have been abused in every imaginable way… tens of billions of dollars added to the costs of almost everything… cars, power, housing, an almost unimaginable list including crap like forcing even bakeries that make our bread to filter and recycle their air… so we no longer smell the wonderful smells of bread baking as we drive by those companies… because that smell was “pollution.”

Where’s the anger?

Our government, who must have had people within who knew the truth of it as far back as Eisenhower, people that remained silent… lied to us. Over and over and over again, while they forced us to pay and pay and pay.

And it seems like few of us give a damn.

Well, I have a plan to help end this abuse of the taxpayer, of the people.

It’s a simple plan, really. And it goes like this:

If, as a part of your campaign, or as a part of your job while in office, you lie to us… then you lose your job and you can be held personally, financially and criminally liable for your lies.

There is no “first, second or third” offense. If you lie ONCE, you’re gone. And you lose your cloak of immunity.

Imagine, how much cleaner campaigns would be.

Imagine how much smaller our debt would be if, for example, the empty suited moron running the country had been held instantly accountable for lying about how high unemployment would rise when the porkulus scam was implemented. Do you think for one second the lying scum running this country would have come out and claimed that passage of this scam would result in an 8% unemployment ceiling if they knew they would be held accountable for their claims?

How do we do it? Well, I’m working on that. We could force each elected official to sign an undated resignation as part of their oath of office.

Who would apply the standard? I haven’t figured it out, yet. But this is a discussion that we must have or else we will continue to be buried in lies and debt and erosion of our rights… and the blood of our men and women as a result of the clueless idiot running the show.

But this bizarre idea promulgated by leftist whack jobs that we do have recourse at the ballot box, as if that plan would undo the damage the corrupt liars are doing to us every day, is simply not enough. We must put our leaders on notice. And we must do it now.
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