100 Days

President Obama will celebrate his first 100 days in office tomorrow. A modern milestone with little real significance but it is an opportunity for people to comment on his progress.

Personally I have a lot of issues with what has gone on in his first days as President. For that matter I have a lot of issues with what when on during the 120 days before he was President, from a fiscal perspective. I have been dismayed on almost every element of President Obama’s agenda accept for his troop build up in Afghanistan, which I think is necessary to restore order to that country and I believe Gen. Petreaus is exactly the man we need to oversee that conflict. On almost every other issue I can think of I would have to disagree with the direction the President is taking.

On foreign policy matters, the President has upset some of our most fervent and important allies, including, but certainly not limited to Israel. At the same time he has capitulated and apologized to nations who are bent on our destruction including Iran and Venezuela.

On fiscal matters he took the mistakes of the Bush administration and recommitted them on a whole new scale. During the campaign he talked about fiscal responsibility and stated that he would account for every cent of increase in spending with reductions in other areas. Unfortunately his first budget spends 90% more money than the government will see in revenue and quadruples the worst deficits of the Bush administration. He has already broken his promise not to increase taxes on those making under $250K a year by passing the SCHIP bill. He passed a stimulus bill laden with pork that has no hope of stimulating the economy, but rather paves the way for socialized medicine and completely strips away the welfare reform that was achieved under President Clinton.

On matters of life, that should concern every American, he has quickly removed restrictions on foreign aid for abortions, hinted at removing protections for doctors who have a moral objection to abortion, and opened up federal funding of embryonic stem cell research which requires the destruction of a living baby to ‘harvest’ the cells.

In all these first hundred days have been rough and will get worse. The main accomplishment of the administration is that they are moving at break neck speed, having the support of both houses of Congress.

In the near future there will be a big push for the following things:

- Health care reform. The goal long term is to put private insurance companies out of business and go to the single payer system. The first move will be a giant leap in that direction. If you don’t believe me, just listen to a Rep from the President’s home state.




- Cap and Trade. I know, I write about this one every day it seems, but it is an economic crusher. If this gets through it will put us into a depression that will take years and a complete reversal to bring us out of. Former Vice President Al Gore was on the hill this week testifying that this is the most important piece of legislation in our history and that it must pass. All for something that can’t hold up to scientific scrutiny. Shameful.

- Amnesty for illegal aliens. For years I have been hearing that there are 12 million illegal aliens in this country; people are pouring across the boarder and still there are only 12 million illegal aliens here. Hmm… sounds kind of fishy to me. Or the real number is really 2 or 3X the 12 million number that we are given. It won’t be called amnesty, it will be called “comprehensive immigration reform” or even something having to do with “refugees”. Immigration is great. Illegal immigration is, well, ILLEGAL! That’s the law! As the Chief Executive, our President should be enforcing it!

- Freedom of Choice Act. This is the anti-life bill that the President has pledged to sign. It will allow abortion at ANY POINT prior to actual delivery. It will remove parental notification laws, partial birth abortion bans, and will supersede any state restrictions that are in place. Tax dollars will fund it. It will undo years of incremental gains against abortion. It is sick and it is morally reprehensible… and it’s coming.

The first hundred days have been an expected mess. The next three years and 265 days aren’t going to be any fun either.

Remember your voice can make a difference. Call your Representatives, Senators, and the Whitehouse switchboard and tell them this is NOT the change you want to see in Washington.