In the Right Blogosphere, it is becoming a fact of life that Obama’s promises all have expiration dates!
- Open and Transparency by posting all new legislation so that the public can review it for 5 days? Go ahead, can you tell me just one? Out of HOW many again?
- Not going to hire lobbyists. Yup – check!
- Fiscal Responsibility – oh please, don’t make me
laughcry more than I already have.
There are others – many others. Which brings me to Bi-Partisanship that he so promised during 1/2 of his Senate Presidential campaign season. Tell me, where is the evidence of it? Our friend Warner Todd Huston has a great report on just how bi-partisan Obama really is (emphasis mine).
Then came the omnibus spending bill. It was planned entirely by the Democrats in Congress, the Republican leadership thoroughly excluded from the planning sessions. Obama said not a word nor did he raise a finger to change the situation. It shouldn’t be surprising because the flavor was set by Obama early. When asked about working across the aisle, Obama told Republicans that he didn’t have to. “I won,” he pointedly said…
…Remembering that Obama claimed he wanted a new attitude in government, an aspect of that would include, it must be assumed, common courtesy. In this case, common courtesy might include a friendly phone call to a representative to alert him that the president is going to be visiting his district — no matter what party that representative might belong to. It’s just the courteous thing to do, wouldn’t you say?
Well, you would be wrong. It turns out that Barack Obama saw no reason to alert a Republican Representative that he was going to be in his California district last week. Obama DID, however, invite a Democrat from another district to appear along side of him at a townhall meeting there.
So, not only did Obama not have the common courtesy of alerting an elected official that he was going to appear in that representative’s district, but Obama imported another representative from a different district to appear with him.
The snubbed representative was Dana Rohrabacher of California’s 46th District. Rohrabacher was not told by the office of the president that Obama was going to appear at a townhall in the 46th.
But, there he was, on stage with California’s Lt. Governor, Representative Hilda Soliz, and Representative Loretta Sanchez. None of them from the district in which the townhall was being held.
Ah yes, the Anti-Bush (who ALWAYS extended the invitation) – and it shows.
Sorry, but Obama, far from being the One that was supposed to lead us to the promised Utopian post-everything, is turning out to be nothing more than just another Very Liberal Socialist politician that has said what was needed to get elected and now has settled down to his reality. And our Hades.
The One? During the Middle Ages, the one in government meant the King
Welcome to serfdom, folks!
