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Considering our last post this is the perfect metaphor for the Obama administration so far:
They had HOPE, but were only left with CHANGE…
These Obama coins mimic the current administration, looks pretty but not only are looks only skin deep but the costs are a lot more than you were led to believe.
UPDATE: Gateway Pundit Agrees
You know it took decades for Nixon to get his reputation as a liar. This president is managing it pretty quick.
You might recall candidate Obama promised to use public funding. That was a lie.
The congress had voted to allow 48 hours before the vote took place, democrats refused, a lie:
Instapundit reminds us of the promise to not write legislation behind closed doors. A lie.
Hotair reminds us that President Obama promised that there would be a 5 day comment period before signing a bill. He is planning to sign it tomorrow. If he does it will again be a lie.
And don’t forget the rendition discussion, a matter important to the left.
Don’t forget the Caterpillar plant double speak either.
Nick Guariglia asks why anyone is the slightest bit surprised:
What could anyone have possibly expected from a young, overtly leftist Chicago upstart who had accomplished precisely nothing of significance throughout his short career — and yet still promised the world, and more, to his loyal adherents?
Consider his campaign pledges: It wasn’t too long ago that Obama promised to “tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over.” Ah, the corporate lobbyist, every candidate’s favorite whipping boy. “They have not funded my campaign, they will not run my White House, and they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I am president,” Barack once swore to his sea of idolizing worshipers.
That was then; this is now. President Obama has allowed seventeen exceptions to the no-lobbyist rule. And remember that “sunlight before signing” pledge, giving citizens enough time to read a bill — and offer their opinions on it — before it is signed into law? Well, that’s gone to the wayside, too.
I forgot the lobbyist promise, his conclusion:
During last year’s campaign, critics of Barack Obama contended he was too inexperienced, too leftist, and in a sense, too good to be true. He was, we observed, just another politician — in fact, one uniquely entrenched with Chicago corruption and archaic tax-and-spend philosophies. In other words, a less noble Jimmy Carter.
My take: I think you could see who this guy was a mile away and people just didn’t want to see it. So as always we get the government we deserve.
UPDATE: Sweetness and Light lists 7 broken promises.
…how about congresswoman Grace Napolitano. Hotair tells how to get rich very fast as a congressman or woman:
Here’s how it’s done:
1. Withdraw money from a pension or tax-protected savings account to justify charging yourself an interest rate that would make most credit-card companies blush.
2. Pay only the interest as long as possible on the loan.
3. Hold fundraisers specifically to retire the debt you owe to yourself, and make sure donors understand exactly where that money goes.
4. Give yourself all the donations from those fundraisers.Once you have that system established, it allows contributors to stuff money into your pockets as long as the loan remains outstanding. At 18% interest, that could go on for decades, and in Napolitano’s case, she already has one decade on the books. Napolitano has managed to keep more than half of the debt alive as principal while earning almost 150% just on interest payments — and at this rate, she could do this for another twenty years.
This shows once and for all that its not the rules, its the people. Elect honest people and the rules don’t matter they will remain honest, elect dishonest people and they will find a way around rules.
Byron York shows that a change of Venue doesn’t mean a change of quality:
And what was going on this week? In a written statement released before his news conference, Gregg explained that “on issues such as the stimulus package and the Census there are irresolvable conflicts for me.” A short time later, in front of the press, Gregg played down both issues, but a number of observers believed his original statement was the more accurate. On the stimulus, his decision to stay out of the debate had put him in an awkward position; as a longtime fiscal conservative, he couldn’t vote his conscience, because it would conflict with the president who offered him a place in the cabinet, and as the Commerce Secretary-designate, he couldn’t vote with the president, because it would violate his conscience. On the Census, Gregg told reporters that it “was not a major issue,” but he appeared to protest too much when he said the Census “wasn’t a big enough issue for me to even discuss what the issue was.” If that were the case, then why did he specifically mention it in his written statement?
At the very least, the Census issue would have made for a very uncomfortable confirmation hearing. Gregg’s fellow Republicans on the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee would certainly have asked him what he thought of a plan that would move control of the Census from professionals in the Commerce Department to Rahm Emanuel, the hyper-partisan White House chief of staff. What would Gregg have said? It was the stimulus problem all over again; Gregg couldn’t have said what he believed, but he probably couldn’t have brought himself to support the president, either.
Very much worth your read, what a loss for National Review.
