Thursday, April 5, 2012

A President of Firsts

'Bama has certainly proved to be a president of firsts:

  1. First Preisdent To Issue To Himself The Authority To Declare Peacetime Martial Law
  2. First President To Sign Into Law Unlimited Detention & Killing Of American Citizens
  3. First President to Preside Over a Cut to the Credit Rating of the United States Government
  4. First President to Violate the War Powers Act
  5. First President to Orchestrate the Sale of Murder Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels
  6. First President to issue an unlawful "recess-appointment" while the U.S. Senate remained in session (against the advice of his own Justice Department).
  7. First President to be Held in Contempt of Court for Illegally Obstructing Oil Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico
  8. First President to Defy a Federal Judge's Court Order to Cease Implementing the 'Health Care Reform' Law
  9. First President to halt deportations of illegal aliens and grant them work permits, a form of stealth amnesty roughly equivalent to "The DREAM Act", which could not pass Congress
  10. First President to Require All Americans to Purchase a Product From a Third Party
  11. First President to Spend a Trillion Dollars on 'Shovel-Ready' Jobs -- and Later Admit There Was No Such Thing as Shovel-Ready Jobs
  12. First President to sue states for requiring valid IDs to vote, even though the same administration requires valid IDs to travel by air
  13. First President to Abrogate Bankruptcy Law to Turn Over Control of Companies to His Union Supporters
  14. First President to Bypass Congress and Implement the DREAM Act Through Executive Fiat
  15. First President to Threaten Insurance Companies After They Publicly Spoke out on How Obamacare Helped Cause their Rate Increases
  16. First President to Threaten an Auto Company (Ford) After It Publicly Mocked Bailouts of GM and Chrysler
  17. First President to "Order a Secret Amnesty Program that Stopped the Deportations of Illegal Immigrants Across the U.S., Including Those With Criminal Convictions"
  18. First President to Demand a Company Hand Over $20 Billion to One of His Political Appointees
  19. First President to Terminate America's Ability to Put a Man into Space.
  20. First President to Encourage Racial Discrimination and Intimidation at Polling Places
  21. First President to Have a Law Signed By an 'Auto-pen' Without Being "Present"
  22. First President to Arbitrarily Declare an Existing Law Unconstitutional and Refuse to Enforce It
  23. First President to Tell a Major Manufacturing Company In Which State They Are Allowed to Locate a Factory
  24. First President to refuse to comply with a House Oversight Committee subpoena.
  25. First President to File Lawsuits Against the States He Swore an Oath to Protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN, etc.)
  26. First President to Withdraw an Existing Coal Permit That Had Been Properly Issued Years Ago
  27. First President to Fire an Inspector General of Americorps for Catching One of His Friends in a Corruption Case
  28. First President to Propose an Executive Order Demanding Companies Disclose Their Political Contributions to Bid on Government Contracts
  29. First President to allow Mexican police to conduct law enforcement activities on American soil
  30. First President to Golf 90 or More Times in His First Three Years in Office
But remember: he will not rest until all Americans have jobs, affordable homes, green-energy vehicles, and the environment is repaired, etc., etc., etc.

Thanks to Nino for posting the list at WCBM.

3 comments:

  1. I linked to this - it's better than anything I could have scribbled this morning. Thanks for circulating this VERY important reminder.

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  2. @Rev Paul and Keads - Thanks. When the bobbleheads start babbling about all that the emperor-wannabe has done for us, we need to be able to come right back with stuff like this.

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