The Can't Do Obama Administration

Other than violating the laws set forth in the Constitution, the Obama administration is the little train that can't. They are very close to having taken full governmental control of the automotive, health care, financial and energy private sector industries. Meanwhile, border security, military engagements, and providing an economic climate to allow for private sector job growth (how many times to liberals need to be told that government does not create jobs) lay fallow, things the federal government is specifically directed to do by the Constitution.

So they CAN'T protect our borders.


Homeland Security Sec Napolitano, CAN'T do anything about the border.


In Afghanistan, a nine year long war, most of the casualties have happened on Obama's watch. George Bush allowed this to be turned into a politically managed war like was done with Vietnam, with the same result. Lesson not learned. Obama is making it worse. From Jan. 20, 2009 to July 2, 2010, there were 452 combat-related deaths. That's more than half of the 900 combat-related deaths since Oct 2001 when we engaged in the operation. The top five deadliest months so far are:
1. June 2010 (59 casualties).
2. October 2009 (58 casualties).
3. August 2009 (51 deaths)
4. July 2009 (43 deaths)
5. September 2009 (37 deaths)
Several weeks ago I suggested that because we have an incompetent Commander in Chief, to save soldiers' lives, we should withdraw from Afghanistan. This bears out my contention.

The administration CAN'T fix the employment situation. It's time to despair for America's fiscal house. This is what passes for leadership with this administration. Vice President Joe Biden: "There's no possibility to restore 8 million jobs lost in the Great Recession." This was followed by the obligatory 'blame Bush', "We inherited a godawful mess." That was followed by a big lie, that 500,000 private sector jobs were created, and there's been a 4% growth in the economy. Huge lie, it just didn't happen, but of course the Jurassic Press did not do any fact checking or challenge his assertion. These statements were made at a fundraiser for Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) in Milwaukee on June 26. The other big lie about the economy is 2.2 million to 2.8 million jobs were either saved or created because of the stimulus as of March 2010. What specific jobs were "saved" and how is that measured? According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the economy has lost 4.4 million jobs, worse than Herbert Hoover, since Obama completed his first full month in office February 2009.

In international economics we CAN'T be the economic engine of the world. From U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner at the recent G20 summit, that basically, the US economy is a failure, will continue to be a failure, and the world needs to step it up. Here it is in economic/diplomatic gobbledygook: "Given the broader shifts under way in the U.S. economy towards higher domestic savings, without further progress on rebalancing global demand, global growth rates will fall short of potential." "In this context, we are concerned by the projected weakness in domestic demand in Europe and Japan." The US has been the economic engine of the world for nearly a century, and all the sudden we CAN'T?

According to this administration, we CAN'T do anything about the border, we CAN't do anything about unemployment, we CAN'T do anything about military loses in Afghanistan, we CAN't do anything about the US economy at the global level.

I never ever ever want any leader, in any situation, say that something CAN'T be done. The purpose of leadership is to get things done. Added to the CAN'T do list, is the WON'T do of the Gulf oil spill. This administration has done nothing but threaten law suits and blame people. The solution is here, and Obama must do it. Then again, after the fact, he'll have a lot of excuses on why he couldn't do these things.

The CAN'T do Presidency.

I think we can get jobs back. I think a lot bad guys in Afghanistan can be killed with reduced US casualties. I think the oil spill can be dealt with effectively and immediately. I think the US can be the economic engine of the world. I want a can do presidency.

General Betray Us Three Years Later

This ad was on Moveon.org when the General testified in 2007, and Moveon has taken it down now that Obama has placed Petraeus as Commander of the Afghanistan theater.

Here's what the Dems were saying about General Petraeus in 2007. About the vid (below) of Obama trashing the General, the Left is saying he wasn't saying those things about or to Petraeus, but was trashing GW Bush. The surge was the strategy of Petraeus and his staff, and Bush finally accepted it. Bush didn't create the strategy but accepted the military recommendations. Of course H. Clinton, Biden, Obama and the rest were trashing Petraeus along with Obama. Watching the vid, does it really look like his remarks, regardless of what they say, not a personal attack on the General?

Joe Biden: "I think he's dead-flat-wrong. The fact of the matter is that this idea of these security gains we made have had no impact on the underlying sectarian dynamic, none, none whatsoever."

Hillary Clinton: "You have been made the de facto spokesman for a failed policy. The reports that you provide to us really require the willing suspension of disbelief." Translation: You're a liar.

Robert Wexler: "The surge has failed. In truth, war-related deaths have doubled in Iraq in 2007 compared to last year. Tragically, it is my understanding that seven more American troops have died while we've been talking today. Cherry-picking statistics or selectively massaging information will not change the basic truth. It is my patriotic duty to represent my constituents and ask you about your argument that the surge in troops be extended until next year, next summer. I am skeptical, General ..."

Jim McDermott: "'We're Kicking Ass in Iraq' might be the headline of the report the White House is writing for General Petraeus to deliver to the Congress next week. Here's what the president's kick-ass assessment translates to on the ground: Ten US soldiers killed so far this week, 793 US soldiers killed so far this year, 3,752 US soldiers killed since the beginning of the war, and 27,186 US soldiers wounded since the beginning of the war -- AND 71,000 documented Iraq civilian deaths since the beginning of the war, although the actual number is much higher."

Harry Reid: "I believe, myself, that the secretary of state, secretary of defense -- and you have to make your own decision as to what the president knows -- that this war is lost."

...and Obama (recommend start about 1:30 into vid)

He was saying failure then? Right now June is the deadliest month, and he's the commander in chief. What's his record and responsibility after more than a year and a half?

Now these people turn to Petraeus to run things? He's their warrior on the white horse? Obama's policy now is to slowly cut and run; withdrawal while our soldiers get killed. It's not the personnel, it's the policy.