Originally Posted by waybomb

It's getting old, but here it is again:

1) Obama promised to run an honest and ethical administration, yet he has given us the following…

* Yusuf Acar – arrested on bribery charges (Obama appointee)
* Sushil Bansal – arrested on bribery charges (Obama appointee)
* Adolfo Carrion - kickbacks from developers (Urban Czar nominee)
* Bill Richardson - pay-to-play donor contract scandal (Commerce Secretary)
* Jon Cannon - mismanaged $25 million in EPA grants (EPA Administrator)
* Steven Rattner - pay-to-play scandal (Car Czar)
* Rahm Emanuel – made $320,000 at the failing Freddie Mac (White House Chief of Staff).
* Larry Summers – $8 million in compensation and speaking fees from bailed out company (Economic Advisor)
* Ronald Sims - financial mismanagement, ethical transgressions and egregious abuses of freedom of information law (HUD nominee)
* Timothy Geithner – tax cheat (Treasury secretary)
* Tom Daschle – tax cheat (HHS Secretary Nominee)
* Nancy Killefer – tax cheat (Chief Performance Officer Nominee)
* Rahm Emanuel – tax cheat (White House Chief of Staff)
* Ron Kirk – tax cheat (U.S. Trade Representative)
* Kathleen Sebelius - tax cheat (HHS nominee)
2) Obama promised to cut the debt and deficit and be fiscally responsible, yet he has already given us or has proposed the following…

* $700 billion bailout bill (Obama voted for it as senator)
* $800 billion porkulus maximus spending bill (5% infrastructure, 95% redistribution, no provisions for private sector jobs)
* $400 billion discretionary spending bill (loaded with 9,000 earmarks)
* $600 billion proposed national health care (tip of the iceberg)
* $3.5 trillion projected 2010 budget
3) Obama promised to withdraw troops within his first year in office. Yet the troops still remain in Iraq, he is asking congress for $83 billion for Iraq War, Blackwater’s contract has been renewed and is being sent back into Iraq and another 20,000 troops are being sent into Afghanistan.

4) Obama continues the warrantless wiretapping program even though he promised, during his campaign, to end it.

5) Obama promised that there would be no earmarks in bills that he signs, yet he signed a $400 billion discretionary spending bill that had 9,000 earmarks.

6) Obama seated dozens of lobbyist in his administration even though he campaigned not to.

7) Obama has not fulfilled his promise to cut taxes for 95% of Americans.

8) Obama promised to cut the deficit, yet the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that Obama's budget will incur $9.3 trillion in federal deficits between 2010 and 2019.

9) Democrat Chris Dodd was given the OK by Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, and Obama, to put provision in bill to allow AIG executives to receive bonuses. And Obama had the audacity to say publicly that he was “outraged” and “stunned” over the fact that the AIG executives received said bonuses.

10) Martin Feldstein, a former AIG board member, resides on Obama's Tax Advisory Task Force.

11) Obama’s administration targets (a) veterans, (b) people who want smaller government, (c) people who want to protect our borders and (d) people who exercise their second amendment rights, as potential terrorist.